Posted on 11/11/2017 5:34:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
One of the four women who said they had romantic or sexual encounters as teens with Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore responded Friday with a lengthy statement.
The statement came from Gloria Thacker Deason via her attorney, Paula Cobin.
In the statement, Deason said Moore provided her alcoholic beverages even though, at age 18, she was too young to drink under Alabama law. Moore denied that he bought underage girls alcohol in an interview Friday with Sean Hannity after Deason's statement had been released.
Deason also said that The Washington Post accurately portrayed her comments to the newspaper. The Post broke the story Thursday, which accused Moore, then 32, of having a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl.
The Post also reported that Moore, while in his 30s, had romantic encounters with three other girls - including Deason -- who were all in their teens. According to The Post, Moore provided Deason with Mateus Rose wine while the two were on dates.
Deason said she and Moore dated off and on for several months. Their physical relationship never progressed beyond kissing, she told The Post.
Moore has denied the allegations in The Post story. Moore faces Democrat Doug Jones in the Dec. 12 election.
In her statement, Deason said she was speaking out because of "public falsehoods and defamatory remarks" made by Moore and other Republican officials. In the statement, Deason also said she does not know Moore's opponent nor has she been contacted by Democratic leaders.
The full statement from Deason:
On behalf of Gloria Deason, please accept this additional statement on her behalf:
This statement is being given due to the public falsehoods and defamatory remarks being made by Roy Moore, many Alabama Republican officeholders and leaders, and Steve Bannon, regarding the motivations of Ms. Deason in describing her former relationship with Moore. She did not seek public exposure on the events described in The Washington Post article. She was contacted by the Post reporters several weeks ago. After careful consideration, and fully understanding that her character and veracity would be viciously attacked, she nonetheless agreed to go on the record and tell the truth.
Ms. Deason confirms that the The Post accurately reported the substance of her interviews with them. She does not know the other women named in the article. She is no longer a resident of Alabama. She is a registered Republican, but has no affiliation with the RNC and has not been contacted by the RNC or any Republican leaders at any time. The same is true for the DNC and Democratic leaders. She does not know Doug Jones, has not been contacted at any point by him or anyone associated with his campaign nor made any financial contributions to him.
There is nothing about being public regarding her relationship with Roy Moore that will enhance Ms. Deason's life. She did not seek the limelight. No glory, no financial compensation, no justice. But she stands firmly on the truth. No one can take that away from her. No one.
And Roy Moore knows the truth. Notably, he has not denied knowing Ms. Deason, or pursuing and dating her when she was 18 and he was in his mid-thirties. He has not denied plying her with alcohol knowing in his position as a district attorney that she was younger than the legal drinking age. He has not given a press conference or opened himself up to questions on his relationship with Ms. Deason or the other women named in the article. He appears to be in hiding while issuing incendiary statements about the women, calling them "evil" and accusing them of bribery and conspiracy with the DNC. He has also sent emails to his supporters using this as a reason to request more financial contributions for his campaign.
It is reprehensible that so many Alabama Republican officeholders and leaders of their party have rejected wholesale the magnitude of evidence reported in The Post. Worse yet, they claim that even if they believed the statements of pedophilia and sexual assault, specifically against Leigh Corfman (the 14 year old), to be true, they don't find it to be illegal or immoral conduct by Moore. A 14 year old cannot legally give consent for sex. In short, these leaders don't care. This is a stunning admission that the GOP is not a party of family values, certainly not in Alabama. And Steve Bannon's ridiculous statement that Moore's misconduct is akin to "locker room talk" deserves no response. It fails on its face.
For those critical of these 4 women for not voluntarily coming forward earlier, ask yourselves what difference it would have made. Republicans in Alabama, the Christian conservatives of the Deep South, are saying that they don't care if Roy Moore's predatory sexual child pursuits are true. It's no big deal to them that Moore abused his position of power as a district attorney and committed crimes against teenage women.
Who is paying the lawyer to do so much legalese? Sounds like the sales pitch I fell for once.
Who is paying the lawyer to do so much legalese? Sounds like the sales pitch I fell for once.
What I haven’t heard a single word about, is that in Alabama at the time this is alleged to have occurred, a girl could get married at 13 with parental permission, and 16 without permission. I was in the Army and stationed in Alabama from 1973 to 1976, and knew several guys in their late teens and early 20’s who married 13, 14, and 15 year olds, because the parents had given permission.
I stand with Roy Moore
Paid accusers have to be believable. Thats why they get paid. They’re professionals.
She did not seek the limelight. No glory, no financial compensation, no justice.
She did not seek out any of these things, but when a Washington Post showed up at her door and offered her all of those things along with a suitcase full of money, a team of lawyers and spokesmen to represent her she jumped at the chance
She is not seeking the limelight? BS. If that were the case she’d be identified as a Jane Doe.
She’s going the feted, wined and dined, and schmoozed on all the LSM networks. Then there will be the book deal.
In the event I run for public office in the distant future, I’m admitting that when I was in high school, I kissed a girl who was only 16 years old............There, it’s out there for the world to see.
‘Problem with the booze angle is that they lived in a dry county and nobody sold booze.’
did she state specifically that he purchased the booze, and that it was provided by the restaurant...? providing her with booze could be a BYOB deal...
She is not seeking the limelight? BS. If that were the case she’d be identified as a Jane Doe.
She’s going to be feted, wined and dined, and schmoozed on all the LSM networks. Then there will be the book deal.
Well....uh...maybe Roy knows the truth and you don’t nitwit.
Etowah County appears to have gone wet by referendum in 1972.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/115162329/
The Washington Post is regarded as a left leaning news source along with The New York Times, The L.A. Times, and The Wall Street Journal, all ultra liberal. When you create a reputation of such a straight line view in the eyes of the public, you are only “preaching” to one religion, liberalism. At that time you lose a huge amount of credibility to anything you try to call a discovery and automatically place your “facts” in question. An open mind creates possibilities. A closed one can’t accept them nor pass them, right or wrong. So if the attacking document source was above board all the time, there wouldn’t be any question.
And this brings to mind a question on my mind, if she had had an unwanted sexual encounter with him at 14, why did she start dating him at 18?
https://heavy.com/news/2017/11/gloria-thacker-deason-roy-moore-accuser/
Deason said that their relationship started in 1979, and he never forced himself on her. They met while she worked at the jewelry counter of a department store inside Gadsden Mall when she was 18. She told The Post that she was attending Gadsden State Community College at the time and was still living at home with her parents, adding that she typically had a “strict curfew.” But because of Moore’s stature, her mother felt comfortable allowing him to see her.
“My mom was really, really strict and my curfew was 10:30 but she would let me stay out later with Roy,” Deason told The Post. “She just felt like I would be safe with him. …She thought he was good husband material.”
When does the time come to sort out the truth and not conjecture based upon political manure until it gets to deep to get through?
rwood
The report was that they were “served drinks”
Perfect.
A guy can have SEX with a 16 year old girl and not be doing anything illegal. Hence the old saying, “15 will get you 20”!
Unless the guy is a pedophile, he won’t risk being imprisoned for raping a 14 year old when there are gals 2 years older who are legal. And if he IS a pedophile, he won’t stop with just one underage girl.
Either there is a 38 year long pattern of pedophlia, or not. If not, then Moore was not doing anything illegal.
Drinking? My kids at least tasted wine and beer in their early teens. I wanted them to know what it tasted like. One liked wine. The other two liked neither. Not sure why it would be illegal. It certainly is NOT immoral.
My father was 32, and my mother was 16 when they married in 1936. My oldest sister wasn’t born until 1940. I was the fourth and last child born in 1947. Today they’d label my father a pedophile.
>>My father was 32, and my mother was 16 when they married in 1936. My oldest sister wasn’t born until 1940. I was the fourth and last child born in 1947. Today they’d label my father a pedophile.
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At age 14, my grandmother married my much older grandfather, bore two sons, and lived a happy life. Perhaps life spans were shorter back then, and people married closer to the age of puberty? Someone else posted that we should not judge earlier times through current day lenses. I think that is wise advice.
Gerry Studds, a Massachusetts Democrat, had sex with an underage page. Barney Frank had prostitution ring running out of his home. Bill Clinton was accused of rape and paid off on a sexual harassment suit. All got reelected. There were no calls by Democrats or from "mainstream" media demanding they step down.
“She said, He said, some thirty or forty years later. Who cares, one way or the other? The Alabama of thirty/forty years ago saw marriages regularly with thirteen year old girls. Remember a guy named Jerry Lee Lewis!!!
Get real, folks. Older men, always went after the younger gals..it was the way it was...and most of the ladies loved the attention and maturity. Otherwise they would not have continued seeing the older guys, like these accusers did so many times. This McConnell farce is a low life Republican Establishment, RINO dud, Dead-On-Arrival!!!
Judge, Roy Moore...hang in there...much ado about nothing!!!
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