Michigan Young Republican pleads guilty in sex case

Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland.com ^ | July 24, 2007 | Jim Nichols

[notbackingdown]

The former head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans admitted today that he sexually abused a colleague during a national convention here last summer.

Michael Flory, a 32-year-old attorney from Jackson, Mich., pleaded guilty to sexual battery on the day he was to stand trial for rape.

The teary-eyed college student he overpowered in a downtown hotel room gasped and dabbed her eyes as Flory replied to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Peter Corrigan's question, "Are you indeed guilty?"

"Sure - yeah," Flory said.

Corrigan set sentencing for Sept. 13. Flory faces a sentence that ranges from probation to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

[mimaw]

He could win dem presidential nomination. Bill Clinton won the whole enchilada with those credentials.

[freekitty]

Amazing isn’t it?

[fr_freak]

I might go to a gang controlled part of town for the experience and I might get killed for doing it. That might make me stupid but it would not make the one who killed me any less of a murderer. Women do not "beg" to be raped and men do not "lose control". Rapists know exactly what they are doing.

This is all true, but, at the same time, we now have a society that encourages women to live in a fantasy world where they no longer have to make any effort to ensure their own safety. If a woman engages in actions which all but guarantee that she'll be vulnerable to any unscrupulous man who happens to be around, it is difficult to feel sympathy for her. To use your example, if I were to walk into a gang-infested neighborhood which is notorious for not liking people of my skin color, and I end up shot, people may want the killer punished, but how many will also say that I was a damn fool?

In addition, in situations where both parties are equally impaired and consensual sex occurs (does not appear to apply in this particular case), men are always held accountable for their actions, but women are treated as helpless victims. If women really want to be equals to men, then they need to be held just as accountable as men.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Sounds like he has a promising career as a big time donor to the RNC and employer of illegal aliens.

[AmericanInTokyo]

some how, at least for a man or most men, the two concepts of "getting drunk" and "doing something you ought not to" (in that sense), seem somewhat of an oxymoron.

[BlackbirdSST]

No, if he were a Dimocrat the teary victim would have "dabbed his eyes"

The "victim" that you continue to smear? What are her politics? What does it have to do with anything? Pretty low class approach you're taking. Blackbird.

[lightman]

When I bolded his I intended that to mean that had the perp been a dimocrat the victim would likely have been male.

No smear of this victim.

[notbackingdown]

Excellent, excellent post. Thank you for putting in to words what my brain refused to do at 1 am EST.

lol

[cynwoody]

Probably because the Independent council found the Broaddrick affidavit wasn’t credible. As far as I know that’s the only time law enforcement looked at it.

"Law enforcement" did it. BJ was the Arkansas Attorney General at the time.

[SunkenCiv]

The former head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans admitted today that he sexually abused a colleague during a national convention here last summer. Michael Flory, a 32-year-old attorney from Jackson, Mich., pleaded guilty to sexual battery on the day he was to stand trial for rape.

Former? How long ago?

[Sensei Ern]

The guy is apparently a cad. But what was the girl thinking? 1) Getting so drunk; and 2) having a man (instead of a girlfriend or girlfriends) escort her back to her room in that vulnerable state.

She was 21, he was 31. I am sure to her, he looked like a father figure. She is shamed for life; he will hopefully have to bear the shame for life as well.