Senate candidate’s wife says he won’t step aside
WASHINGTON: The wife of Republican US Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama has said her husband would not end his campaign in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, dismissing reports about his past behaviour toward some women as political attacks.
“He will not step down,” Kayla Moore said at a news conference on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery. “He will not stop fighting for the people of Alabama.” The former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice’s campaign has been in turmoil since the Washington Post published a story last week detailing the accounts of three women who claim Moore pursued them while they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. More women have since spoken out with allegations of their own. Before the allegations came to light, Moore was heavily favoured to defeat Democrat Doug Jones.
OHIO JUDGE BRAGS OF SEX WITH 50 WOMEN
An Ohio judge and gubernatorial candidate sparked a firestorm on Friday when, seemingly fed up with the escalating national debate over sexual harassment and impropriety in the workplace, he bragged that he had slept with 50 women.
Bill O’Neill said in a Facebook post that his admission was “on behalf of all heterosexual males” and an effort to move on from the “national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago.”
“In the last fifty years I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females,” the Democratic candidate and justice on the Midwestern state’s highest court said.
“It ranged from a gorgeous blonde...and ended with a drop dead gorgeous red head from Cleveland.”