Amanda Staples, former GOP candidate for state Senate in Maine, said in Instagram post George HW Bush groped her in 2006 Staples was 29 at the time, and the maried ex-president was in his 80s Novelist Christina Baker Kline was third to level groping claim at ex-president Actresses Jordana Grolnick and Heather Lind have made similar claims His spokesman says Bush patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner