Republican Values
Well, another one falls.
Conservative Republican Jeremy Durham, a Tennessee state representative, was only the second person expelled from the house by his fellow members since the Civil War.
He’s a stinker.
The attorney general found 22 women who said Durham had acted sexually inappropriate with them. The report includes an array of allegations, from lewd comments and inappropriate hugs to giving beer to and having sex with a 20-year-old “college student/political worker” in his legislative office and home.
He’s also being investigated for campaign finance violations.
Why is all this happening to him?
Durham previously has denied sexually harassing anyone, calling the investigation unconstitutional and an attempt to remove a conservative stalwart.
Yeah, because he’s a conservative.
The vote was 70 – 2.
Makes me wonder why 2 members would vote to keep him in office. I think the 2 that voted to keep him in office should be investigated for similar behavior; keeping that scum around would have deflected prying eyes away from their own disgusting activities.
1Both of those were from women. I wish I was wrong.
2How come only 72 members of the House voted?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that list, nasty as it is, sound a bit mild to be the reason for expelling the second member since the Civil War? By which I mean, shouldn’t a lot more of them have been expelled by now, if that’s the standard? Do the GOP Pooh-bahs have it in for this guy, so they threw him out as a sacrifice?
3By the standards of the GOP, having sex with a 20-year-old “college student/political worker” in his legislative office and home wasn’t a problem. The problem was having sex with JUST one, at a time, 20-year-old “college student/political worker”.
I read he’s married. To an optometrist. Which tickles. There’s a pun there about “seeing him for who he is” straining to get out.
4hahaha…….possible those two women “knew” him better than most? Would love to be a fly on the wall when they compare notes…….
5I’m surprised that 22 women witnesses were enough since right-wingers normally assume that women routinely lie about sex to get men into trouble.
6Oh… just… goodbye. (I got nothin’.)
7Ha ha ha! Lady Karma and her sister Nemesis are working well.
8Another socksucker bites the dust. Are there any legal charges pending against him? Isn’t sexual harassment a crime? Or is it just a$$hole snacilbupeR behavior?
9And this:
2003
Durham was arrested in 2003 when he was a UT student on charges of vandalism, theft and aggravated burglary. According to a Knoxville police report, Durham was accused of breaking into the home of a man who was dating an ex-girlfriend.
And this:
2014
The letter came to light a day after GOP officials responded to the news that drug task force investigators had sought prescription fraud charges against Durham in 2014, after they said he wrote over a fill date to make it appear that a prescription hadn’t expired.
And this:
2014
Durham wrote to a federal judge in 2014 seeking a more lenient sentence for Bedford County Baptist youth pastor Joseph Todd Neill who was convicted on federal charges of possessing child pornography (Neill had also pleaded guilty to two state counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, and as part of Neill’s federal plea deal, he admitted to initiating a sexual relationship on more than two occasions with a minor who was a member of the church where he was a youth minister). Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey called the move “poor judgment.”
How long will it be before he announces he had a talk with God, who tells him he has been forgiven, and be elected as either senator or governor of Tennessee?
10Hard to imagine, but there is a lower place than Absolute Bottom for my opinion of him.
11presumably, those prior incidents would have been made much of, by his opponent in his first run for public office, and would be raised again, during every campaign since. in spite of this, at least 51% of the voters voted for him. this isn’t exactly reflecting well, on those people that voted for him, in spite of his clear issues with women.
the thing is, if they’d held a recall vote instead, those same good Christian voters would have voted for him again.
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