Posted on 10/02/2016 6:55:43 PM PDT by Loyalist
Four sentences in a letter to Speaker of the House Todd Richardson are about to turn the Missouri political world upside down.
“My name is Cora Faith Walker. I will be in the Capitol in January as the Representative of the 74th District. Earlier this week, I reported a sexual assault to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. I named my rapist as Steven Roberts, Jr., who hopes to be in the Capitol in January as the Representative of the 77th District.”
On Friday night, Walker, 31, a Ferguson attorney who won the Democratic primary for her seat in August, sent the letter containing those four sentences and more to Richardson, Minority Floor Leader Jake Hummel and assistant minority floor leader Gail McCann-Beatty.
She is asking the leadership of a Missouri Legislature that has been rocked by sexual scandals over the past couple of years to not allow Roberts, a Democrat, to take his seat until “this investigation is complete.”
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Walker said the alleged assault took place either the evening of Aug. 26 or the early morning of Aug. 27 at an apartment in the city of St. Louis. She had gone there to meet Roberts to discuss how they might work together in the upcoming legislative session, Walker says. The two will be the only black lawyers in the Legislature.
Walker said she met Roberts at the apartment about 9:30 p.m. She woke up in a bed there the next morning.
“I had no recollection of why I was still there,” she said. Walker said she had two glasses of wine and remembers nothing after the second glass.
She told her husband, Tim, the next day about what happened, she said, but it took the couple several weeks to decide whether to go to police.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Something rotten in Ferguson...
I’m talking about “jive talking”, bro. Call me a Bee Gee if you want, but “nothing jives” means “nothing works (together)” or “Nothing makes senses”.
There is also “shucking and jiving” and I don’t mean oysters.
“Jib” is more nautical language as in “lower the jib”.
Now, “vibes” is a great word. “He’s got good vibes”. “This place has good vibes”. A musician has good vibes.
Nobody says he has good “jibes”.
Just playing around. English is a great language to create new meanings for old spellings.
How horrible. If the charge is true, the perp belongs in jail.
In contrast to the recent atrocious polls in the MO Gubernatorial race (rat up 16), new poll by the same people (Remington research) has Eric Grietens (R) down only 3.
http://themissouritimes.com/34322/poll-greitens-pulls-within-3-koster/
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