Posted on 04/30/2018 6:34:44 PM PDT by Simon Green
Former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a complaint on Monday claiming he was the target of a political conspiracy ahead of the Alabama special election in December.
Moore, a former judge, lost to Democrat Doug Jones in a special election to fill a Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Jones defeated Moore by about 20,000 votes ― or 1.5 percentage points.
Controversy swirled around Moore in the final months of the campaign as several women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct, including allegations that he pursued and harassed teenage girls when he was in his 30s and sexually assaulted one. Moore has denied the allegations.
In his complaint, filed in civil court in Etowah County, Alabama, Moore claims that his accusers shared a “common design” and planned their allegations to undermine his campaign. The complaint names four of Moore’s accusers ― Leigh Corfman, Debbie Wesson Gibson, Beverly Young Nelson and Tina Johnson ― as well as Richard Hagedorn, a reported friend of Corfman’s.
In a statement released on a campaign Facebook page, Moore’s attorney, Melissa Isaak, said the allegations against Moore “arose from a political conspiracy to destroy his personal reputation and defeat him in the special Senate election for United States Senate.”
Moore “has filed this action not only to hold accountable those who are guilty of slanderous and libelous conduct, but also to restore his good name, character, and reputation with the people of Alabama,” Isaak said.
Monday’s complaint claims the women’s allegations arose “coincidentally” roughly a month before the election and that Moore faced “no hint of scandal” in his years in public office prior to that.
Moore was twice elected chief justice of Alabama and twice removed from court for violations.
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Judge Moore is right in doing this. These women and their handler disappear after the candidate loses.
I think this was a definite setup, but he didn’t help matters with the way he responded to it. Have these women filed any charges against him? If they have, are these charges still up in the air, or did they drop them after he lost the election?
Shelby and McConnell let slip a US Senate seat to the democrats because of what? Unsubstantiated allegations?
They put the Senate at risk of falling to democrats because of media playing up a lot of lies and allegations?
They would let the Senate go because they think Moore is not subservient enough to their masters?
Who cares about charges. All they need is the leftist media as a platform from which to make the accusations! It works great!! And should be shut down by prison sentences for these biotches. The free speech in this country needs to be tightened up a bit by imprisoning those who make unsubstantiated accusations.
spit out the koolaid, dude. you’re blaming the wrong guy. stupid old mconnell didn’t do this. he’s not effective enough to have pulled off something this tectonic. alabama republicans should have listened to trump’s endorsement and voted for strange.
drunk ass steve bannon blew this up. at least he did it early, and now we know enough to ignore him before he nuked us in the midterms.
Todd Akin had the same complaint. When the election was over, he joined the gang of losers. This is what the Democrats do, and what the Republicans do is select a candidate who cannot win in a general election. It’s not a very smart move.
This is wonderful. Judge Moore is coming back.
Didn’t Moore go to see the Army/Navy game about 10 days before
the election. He spent a full weekend out when he could have
been crossing the state of Alabama asking people for their vote.
Good !
What killed him was his behavior on the Hannity interview where he could not deny he didn’t date 14 year old girls and said he didn’t “generally” them, but suggested he dated women as young as 16 when he was over the age of 30 and always got the permission of the mother. The days later he tried to say it is all fake news.
he is not coming back. ever. and we should all be thankful for that; we won’t ever be embarrassed by roy moore again.
that is the one positive thing that came out of that entire sordid ordeal.
Exactly.
He should have heeded the old saying, "if the polls say you're a million votes ahead, you should campaign as though you're a million votes behind."
They would let the Senate go because they think Moore is not subservient enough to their masters?
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Yes, they have done it repeatedly.
IN, DE, NV, MO, whenever the Bush League Republican loses the primary they help the Democrat win.
Agreed.
No kidding, and it was supported by backstabbing Republicans like Jeff Flake and Richard Shelby, among others.
This what I think. They play a lot of games in Washington DC, that Moore would not have gone along with, but a Democrat would.
I live in Alabama and have seen more than enough of Roy Moore. A lot of good conservatives were saying that as soon as Roy got in the race.
I hope we’ve heard the last of him.
That is stupidity. The Corruption allegations against Strange would have done him in.
drunk ass steve bannon blew this up. at least he did it early, and now we know enough to ignore him before he nuked us in the midterms.
And this is even more stupidity. Bannon did nothing wrong. The problem is that Bastard Richard Shelby and that other Bastard Jeff Flake, deliberately tossed the election to the Democrat.
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