A new poll from JMC Analytics shows the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama has surged past Republican Roy Moore in the aftermath of explosive allegations that Moore may have inappropriately touched a 14-year-old girl when he was 32.
The poll shows Democrat Doug Jones now getting 46% support as Moore only received 42%.
When you dive into the details it’s notable that Independent votes have shifted two points away from Moore.
When asked if the allegations of sexual misconduct is affecting their decision, 38% said the allegations make them less likely to vote for Moore while 29% say they are more likely to vote for Moore.
Also, in October, Moore led in male voters by 16 points. He’s now tied with Jones for male voters.
During an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show today, embattled Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore denied any truth to the allegations raised in an explosive Washington Post article in which 4 women detailed inappropriate behavior by Moore when he was in his early 30s.
Moore began with saying the entire reporting was “completely false and misleading,” but then muddied the waters as he continued.
Later in the interview, he admitted he remembered knowing two of the women.
Hannity went through the Post story and detailed the allegations of the four accusers. Moore claimed to know two of four, but denied any instance of misconduct with either. In response to the allegations involving Debbie Wesson Gibson, Moore said, “I don’t remember going out on dates. I knew her as a friend. If we did go out on dates, then we did. But I don’t remember that.”
Speaking of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Moore said he “dated a lot of young ladies” after “my return from the military.”
“I do recognize the names of two of these young women,” he said of Gibson and Deason, denying that he gave the latter alcohol when she was underage. “As I recall, she was 19 or older.”
Asked if he remembers dating teenage women when he was older than 30, Moore said, “Not generally, no.”
“I don’t remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother,” he said. He later pointed to The Post’s story and said, “These two young girls actually said their mothers encouraged them to be friends with me.”
After a commercial break, Moore became more forceful in his denials of dating teenagers. He said doing so “would be out of my customary behavior” and that he “never” would have dated a teen without her mother’s permission.
“Not generally, no” is not a “No.”
The Twitterverse had a field day:
“You ever burglarize vacant homes while their owners were on vacation?”
Forty-four seconds of silence from these Republican leaders as reporters as questions about embattled Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore.
The lawmakers were gathered to promote the reveal of their newly-crafted tax plan, but the ongoing Roy Moore sex scandal was the only thing on reporters’ minds.
Daniel Dale, a Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, attempted to call several of Alabama’s GOP county chairmen. Of the eight he managed to get on the phone, not a single one denounced Moore’s alleged behavior.
Two of those county chairmen — Bibb County’s Jerry Pow and Covington County’s William Blocker — actually told Dale that they’d vote for Moore over Doug Jones even if they had hard evidence that Moore committed sexual assault.
Even. If. They. Had. Proof.
Mixed among the replies were various instances of these guys excusing away sexual assault of minors. Marion County’s David Hall actually said there was “nothing wrong” with a 30-year-old dating a 16-year-old.
What’s it going to take, Alabama voter?
What’s it going to take before you realize that your family values, my-sin-is-better-than-your-sin, conservative voting approach has produced a state government filled with lying, cheating, sexually assaulting, money-grubbing criminals who have embarrassed us countless times, and on top of everything, mismanaged the hell out of this place?
Four women have come forward accusing Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of inappropriate sexual advances to each of them when they were teens.
Leigh Corfman says she was 14 years old when an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County, Ala. She was sitting on a wooden bench with her mother, they both recall, when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore.
It was early 1979 and Moore — now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat — was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation, Corfman and her mother say, and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing.
“He said, ‘Oh, you don’t want her to go in there and hear all that. I’ll stay out here with her,’ ” says Corfman’s mother, Nancy Wells, 71. “I thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl.”
Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number, she says. Days later, she says, he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
“I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” she remembers thinking. “Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over.” Corfman says she asked Moore to take her home, and he did.
There’s much more at the link.
Moore denies all of the allegations.
After Donald Trump won the presidency despite being heard to say “Grab’em by the pussy” on video, I have no doubt the voters of Alabama will not care if this story is true or not.
Roy Moore accused of pedophilia by multiple women. His opponent prosecuted the white supremacists who killed 4 little girls in the Birmingham church bombings. Ordinarily, a civil rights hero is more electable than a molester. But we’re talking about Alabama.
It looks like Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore is very afraid to stand in front of his possible future-constituents and answer questions about his policy positions.
WHNT News in Alabama offered to host/moderate a debate between Moore and his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, but Moore’s campaign came back with a flat “no.”
WHNT News 19 in conjunction with our partners at Reckon by AL.com invited both of Alabama’s US Senate candidates to participate in what would have been a live, commercial-free debate. The Doug Jones campaign accepted, but the Roy Moore campaign has declined.
We at WHNT News 19 believe that public debates give voters a chance to carefully consider who represents them. A seat in the US Senate comes with immense power. It should also come with immense accountability.
Every politician, no matter their stances, party or position, should be open to conversations and challenges, even from those who might disagree.
We hope, even in a fiercely divided political climate, that candidates will remain willing to engage with the issues and each other.
As such, we went to great lengths to make our offer to both campaigns appealing.
We did not specify a format, allowing room to work with both campaigns on a mutually agreeable style. We intended to integrate questions from audience members and people following along digitally.
We offered six different date possibilities between November 27th and December 7th.
However, it was not enough to convince Roy Moore to meet Doug Jones in a public forum.
Moore campaign chair Bill Armistead offered this response:
While we appreciate the invitation from WHNT, the differences between the two candidates are crystal clear. Judge Roy Moore believes in cutting taxes. Doug Jones wants to raise your taxes. Judge Moore believes we should cut spending and balance the budget. Doug Jones believes in putting America in more debt. Judge Moore wants Obamacare repealed. Doug Jones wants to expand it. Judge Moore wants to rebuild the military. Doug Jones supported an administration that slashed our defense spending and put American security at risk. Judge Moore wants to secure our borders. Doug Jones wants open borders and supports amnesty. Judge Moore wants to protect our most vulnerable like our seniors and the unborn, but Doug Jones has spent his career defending violent criminals and he supports partial-birth abortion. There has never been a clearer choice: one candidate will stand up for Alabama and the other candidate will expand federal tyranny. Judge Moore will continue to take his message directly to the voters of Alabama.
The Jone campaign issued this statement:
Roy Moore has been hiding from the voters, from the media and from his record for weeks and now refuses to take the same stage with Doug in a debate. Doug has said repeatedly he was willing to debate Roy Moore anytime, anywhere, about Moore’s lack of support for Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program and about the more than $1 million Moore took from his foundation.
Roy Moore: 1. Hiding from voters. 2. Hiding from the media. 3. Refuses to answer questions about the 1 million he took from his foundation. 4. Even refuses to answer if he supports Medicaid/Medicare or CHIP’s.
Roy Moore, currently the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama, told the audience of Here I Stand podcast last year that the Supreme Court Obergefell ruling that legalized same-sex marriage was “even worse” than the hideous 1857 Dred Scott ruling that upheld slavery.
“In 1857 the United States Supreme Court did rule that black people were property. Of course, that contradicted the Constitution, and it took a civil war to overturn it.
“But this ruling in Obergefell is even worse in a sense because it forces not only people to recognize marriage other than the institution ordained of God and recognized by nearly every state in the union, it says that you now must do away with the definition of marriage and make it between two persons of the same gender or leading on, as one of the dissenting justices said, to polygamy, to multi-partner marriages.”
Bolding is mine.
Moore has been removed from the position of chief justice of the Alabama state Supreme Court twice for failing to follow the law.
Once, for refusing to remove a monument of the ten commandments he had placed on courthouse grounds; and the second time for instructing probate judges in Alabama to ignore the Obergefell ruling in 2015.
Real Clear Politics shows Moore an average of 6 points ahead of his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones.
The special election to replace Jeff Sessions, who resigned to become U.S. Attorney General, is on December 12.
The holier-than-thou, righteous, better-than-you religious conservative politician who regularly climbs up on his pristine soapbox ends up being the one who lies and scams the system.
Check out this report from the Washington Post on Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, Roy Moore.
It seems Moore somehow “forgot” to report almost half a million dollars from a charity he worked for.
The Alabama charity once led by Senate candidate Roy Moore did not report to the Internal Revenue Service that in 2011 it guaranteed him $498,000 in back pay, according to an income report provided to The Washington Post by the charity itself.
Five tax law and accounting specialists said it appears the guaranteed payment should have been reported as compensation, a disclosure that would have triggered a federal tax bill of more than $100,000. Moore and his campaign have not responded to questions about whether he paid the taxes, or to requests that he release his income tax returns.
Moore served as president of the charity from 2007 to 2012, working 20 hours a week, tax filings show. The charity agreed to pay him a $180,000 annual salary in a deal that was not publicly disclosed until a news account by The Post last week. The group also said if it could not afford his full salary in a given year, it would make up for the shortfall when it was able to do so, documents show.
In 2011, the charity gave Moore promissory notes worth $498,000 for unpaid salary in previous years, backing them up with a second mortgage on the group’s historic building in Montgomery, Ala. The note entitles Moore to demand payment at any time or claim an equal stake in the building, which serves as the group’s headquarters.
In deep red Alabama, Moore should be in a double-digit lead over his Democratic opponent Doug Jones. But the most recent Fox News polls shows the race in a dead heat.
Moore will win the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions though. Swampers like him always do these days.
TIME Magazine reports that former Alabama Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court and current candidate for the U.S. Senate, Roy Moore, erroneously believes that professional athletes who take a knee during the national anthem are breaking the law.
(p.s. They aren’t)
In an interview with TIME magazine, the Alabama Republican argued that NFL players and others who have protested police violence are violating a section of the U.S. code which outlines how people should conduct themselves when the anthem is played. (The code merely outlines proper etiquette, and there are no legal penalties outlined in the law.)
“It’s against the law, you know that?” he said. “It was a act of Congress that every man stand and put their hand over their heart. That’s the law.” “If they didn’t have it in there, it would just be tradition. But this is law,” he said. “If we disobey this, what else are we going to disobey?
As the article states, U.S. Code 301 is not law but considered proper etiquette. If you read the few short lines of text, the word “should” not “shall” is used.
Moore himself has broken the law several times in his career. Once when he defied a court order to remove a statue of the Ten Commandments he had installed at his court house; and also when he ordered judges in his state to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court ruling which made marriage equality legal in all fifty states.
Folks on the right and left openly laughed at Moore on Twitter:
You’d be laughed out of court if you tried to enforce this and a state supreme court justice would know that https://t.co/IApnIFCw9k
This just wrong. Nowhere in the US is it illegal to kneel when the national anthem is played. Repub. Roy Moore is running for US Senate. https://t.co/9HseXddUIl
