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.
This is an endorsement, not a scandal
Momma knew what she was talking about too.
Roy Moore became an Alabama Supreme Court Justice and hero to many in Alabama (And the rest of America too) for his defense of the Ten Commandments and religious liberty.
And he is by all accounts a good husband and father.
Ol’ Roy ain't done half bad.
Besides any Southern woman worth her salt should be able to handle a few drinks at the age of eighteen. Dry county or not. By college she should be able to find the best hootch and get gloriously smackered without letting the seams of her stocking come askew then show up for church service in the morning bright as a daisy.
For some, attention is enough.
Yes...it looks like it was a good thing Roy Moore did NOT marry THIS girl...maybe that’s why she’s come out now...??? Still feeling jilted?
When he left the Army he went to University of Alabama Law School and graduated around 1977.
Moore pretty much put his personal life on hold until he was 30.
In the 1970s most women got married right out of high school and if a woman was not married by the age of 29 she was considered a spinster and old old maid by much of contemporary society.
Most people has kids in their mid twenties were terrified of having children after the age of 30 because of the risk of health problems and birth defects
there would have been very few unmarried women Moore's age at the time and having children that old would have been frowned upon at the time.
If Moore wanted to get married, he would have had to look at women 17 to 21 because they were the only unmarried women available
As little as a century ago, marriages as young as 10 were not unheard of.
In any case, in Western culture up until a couple of generations ago, it was the norm for a man to go out and establish himself in his trade and have a viable career, and then go find himself a wife of prime childbearing age. Age gaps of a decade or even two were normal.
Over the last couple of generations the gender roles have blurred (Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, anyone?) but the biology hasn't. There is a reason men are capable of reproduction to much greater ages than are women. Whether you view that as the way we were made, or an adaptation ala Darwinism is irrelevant to the facts.
Western culture had such age gaps as common, even the norm, when life spans were shorter and childhood deaths were common. You started young and produced as many children as you needed to. Elements of this, such as age gaps, were still the norm 40 years ago, even 20 or 10 years ago, even though the root motivations such as child deaths and shorter life expectancy had diminished. To criticize such practices is a contrived excuse.
Darn straight.
I can't help but think that the fine women of Alabama are taking the implications of this smear East Coast carpet baggers as an insult to their character and womanhood
My experience with Southern women is that when their mind on something they go after it with the ruthlessness and calculation of of Dodge City gunslinger and they ply their cards with the charm, shrewdness and cunning of a river boat gambler
They are anything poor helpless damsels in distress although they can play that part pretty convincingly when they want to.
Great points, and all very true. I graduated from high school in 1965, and that’s the way it was back then.
I wonder if a large sum of money has suddenly appeared in these women’s bank accounts.
Very wonderful and informative post. Thanks, calenel.
Paula Cobin, attorney, wrote this statement.... not the accuser.
Hey, how about the ACCUSER taking questions from a hostile Roy Moore advocate?
“The accusation of providing liquor at a restaurant has been debunked by noting the county in which this purportedly happened was dry at the time of the date and could not have happened.”
Now that right there is one of the most compelling arguments I’v seen against the truth of the smear.
Absolutely empty vapid comments through a lawyer that a man dated her 38 years ago. Unless she is a lesbian and afraid of a blow back for being a closet strait what is the problem? “He knows the truth” and so does she. The truth is there is no there there.
She'll need to have a complete make over first, before all that happens.
Yeppers. What a temperance in a teapot.
Etowah County appears to have gone wet by referendum in 1972.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/115162329
> How did the WaPo know who to contact? <
They sent 3 reporters to AL to report on the Senate race; who just happened to hear about 40 year old sexual allegations by 4 women who don’t know each other ... while at a Roy Moore event. A story gift wrapped and ready to ship.
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.
At least there is actual sex involved when a Dem is involved.
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