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After Call for Help, [The wife of U.S. Rep. James P. Moran] Seeks Divorce (Legacy Re-Post)
Washinton Post ^ | Jun 25, 1999 | Hsu, Spencer S; Davis, Patricia

Posted on 09/15/2014 9:16:41 AM PDT by 11th_VA

The wife of U.S. Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) filed for divorce yesterday, one day after she called police to the couple's Alexandria home and told them that her husband had grabbed her and pushed her during an argument.

But Mary Moran said in an interview that she agrees with the decision of Alexandria authorities not to file charges against her husband. She also said it was the first such altercation in their 11- year marriage.

Alexandria police said they were called to the Morans' home at 7:20 a.m. Wednesday. After hearing their conflicting versions of what had happened, the police officer at the scene did not believe there was cause to make an arrest, Police Chief Charles E. Samarra said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 113th; domesticabuse; jimmoran; moran; virginia
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To: 11th_VA

What a Moran


21 posted on 09/15/2014 10:12:25 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: 11th_VA

We could play devil’s advocate and think like lib/prog types like James Moron and fellow wife beater Alan Shrek Grayson, these asshats are White, Ray Rice is Black, why is Rice being punished (deservedly so, BTW) while these two, duly elected officials at that, are given a free pass, HMMM? I would think Sharpton would blow a head gasket over this.


22 posted on 09/15/2014 10:12:28 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: AppyPappy

I just learned a new emoticon today :O
That said, now I see where Jr. gets his ungentlemanly manner from.


23 posted on 09/15/2014 10:15:13 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: miss marmelstein

I know our local police chief once told us that the force spends most of it’s time on domestic abuse cases instead of traffic stops or anything else.

They assumed that they were walking into a domestic battle. You’d think they’d wait to make that judgement depending on what they found. I don’t expect cops to be rocket scientists but I bet the average hamburger flipper could make that call better than your police did.


24 posted on 09/15/2014 10:24:37 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 11th_VA

Moran is one of those hardcore wingnut leftard types, along the lines of Alan Grayson. He occasionally spews out crap that’s beyond outlandish, just for the sake of getting attention.


25 posted on 09/15/2014 10:26:59 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: DannyTN
I agree 100%. I was just stating a fact. In fact I hate zero tolerance programs of any kind. They are stupid and anti-liberty.

That being said. The fact is that HE did manhandle her. In most instances, regardless of the desire of the spouse to pursue charges, it is SOP to have the party removed from the home, even if it is to the local Motel 6 or park bench for a cooling off period.

I smell special treatment, that is all.

26 posted on 09/15/2014 10:27:22 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: 11th_VA

Here’s an idea for Moron, instead of handing out Moran for Congress bumperstickers why not have his picture emblazoned on...what else... WIFE BEATER t-shirts.


27 posted on 09/15/2014 10:28:14 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: 11th_VA
San Francisco Sherrif Ross Mirkarimi was also charged with abusing his wife shortly after winning the sherrif election in 2012.

The city was conflicted over this. The mayor removed him from office, but Mirkarimi sued to get his job back.

The city has since moved on from this, but are now wrapped up in the San Francisco 49ers case of Ray McDonald.

I guess it's different because McDonald isn't a liberal Democrat politician.

-PJ

28 posted on 09/15/2014 10:30:24 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Just trying to emulate Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton..


29 posted on 09/15/2014 10:31:03 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: 11th_VA

Or another “hero” Murtha. Who claimed to be some kind of hot shot Marine— he wasn’t. Then had the gall to accuse our Marines of “atrocities” in Iraq. What an a@@. Good riddance.
Ms. Moran, take him to the cleaners and then spill the real story on this fraudster.


30 posted on 09/15/2014 10:40:46 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: DannyTN

I guess you’re right. They did say they were on my doorstep because my father could not get me on the phone. But pretty stupid to assume that meant my husband was beating me! I was just happy they didn’t shoot the dog.


31 posted on 09/15/2014 10:42:25 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: vette6387

No, Rene Ellmers got his seat in NC. But governor bev perdue got him a state job with serious money. He is a commode hugging democrap apparatchik machine politician, owned by big tobacco.


32 posted on 09/15/2014 10:42:48 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: GeronL
What a Moran

I was thinking the same thing. Who has that picture with the guy holding the sign?

33 posted on 09/15/2014 10:45:42 AM PDT by One_American
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To: 11th_VA

Moran also got some limited press for beating up an elementary school kid. And then was reelected six or seven times.

I’m pretty proud to have been kicked out of the little Irish gift shop on the Irish Walk in Alexandria. Moran walked (perhaps stumbled) past and I asked my wife, somewhat loudly, “Look, there’s Moran. Is he on his way to beat up some kid, or his wife?”


34 posted on 09/15/2014 10:53:01 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: One_American

35 posted on 09/15/2014 10:56:56 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: tanknetter

It’s been obvious for years that Moran has real anger management issues.


36 posted on 09/15/2014 10:57:43 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

James P. Moran is a former Marine Golden Gloves boxer.

A real two fisted wife beater.


37 posted on 09/15/2014 11:16:20 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Red Badger

Nope, I’m talking about Ray LEWIS. He did such a great job mentoring Ray Rice, just imagine what he could have done for Jim Moran.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/ray-lewis-ray-rice-ravens-espn-video


38 posted on 09/15/2014 2:48:46 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

He ‘mentored’ Ray Rice?

That explains a whooooooole lot..................


39 posted on 09/16/2014 6:29:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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