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Roy Moore Urges Republicans to Support Kavanaugh

September 20, 2018 at 12:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore called on Republicans to ‘take a stand’ and support suggested U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh following the sexual misconduct allegations levied against him, adding that he believes the Democrats are using Kavanaugh’s accuser as a political pawn,” the Birmingham News reports.

“Moore is no stranger to such allegations. He was accused by nine women of sexual misconduct that allegedly occurred during the 1970s – allegations that surfaced about a month before the December special election between Moore and Doug Jones. Moore denied the allegations, although he conceded to dating young women at the time.”

Filed Under: Senate Tagged With: Brett Kavanaugh, Roy Moore

Attorney Offered $10K by Moore Supporters to Drop Client

March 23, 2018 at 4:17 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Days after a woman accused U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual impropriety, two Moore supporters approached her attorney with an unusual request,” the Washington Post reports.

“They asked lawyer Eddie Sexton to drop the woman as a client and say publicly that he did not believe her. The damaging statement would be given to Breitbart News, then run by former White House strategist Stephen Bannon.”

“In exchange, Sexton said in recent interviews, the men offered to pay him $10,000 and promised to introduce him to Bannon and others in the nation’s capital. Parts of Sexton’s account are supported by recorded phone conversations, text messages and people in whom he confided at the time.”

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Roy Moore Pleads for Money

March 2, 2018 at 10:13 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) “is pleading for money to pay for his legal bills as he fights a lawsuit against a woman who says he molested her when she was 14,” the AP reports.

Moore said that his “resources have been depleted” and had raised just $32,000 of a $250,000 fundraising goal.

”Leigh Corfman has accused Moore of touching her when she was 14 and he was in his 30s. She is suing Moore, saying Moore and his campaign defamed her as he denied the allegations.”

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: Roy Moore

Shelby Faces Backlash from Moore Supporters

January 13, 2018 at 8:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) “is confronting a fierce backlash from conservatives over his refusal to support Roy Moore in last month’s special election — with Moore backers pushing a censure resolution and robocall campaign targeting the powerful lawmaker,” Politico reports.

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Richard Shelby, Roy Moore

Roy Moore Sends Fundraising Pitch

December 16, 2017 at 9:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Roy Moore told supporters that the “battle is not over” in Alabama’s Senate race even though President Trump and others have called on him to concede, the AP reports.

Moore sent a fundraising email to supporters asking for contributions to his “election integrity fund’ so he could investigate reports of voter fraud.

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Roy Moore Was a Truly Awful Candidate

December 13, 2017 at 8:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Weekly Standard: “Roy Moore wasn’t a generic Republican candidate. If you’ve ready anything about this race, you know that the Washington Post and other news outlets have published credible claims that Moore had improper sexual contact with teenage girls while he was in his 30s. And even before that, Moore was controversial. He was elected as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court twice, but he was removed from that position in 2003 and suspended from it a few years after winning the seat back in 2012. He won his 2012 election to that position by four points while Romney won the state by 22 points.”

“In other words, Moore was a terrible candidate. And that mattered.”

“No matter how you look at the race, it’s hard to escape the fact that Moore was a truly bad candidate, and that Republicans likely would have performed significantly better if they had nominated a more conventional Republican.”

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

McConnell Will Press Ethics Investigation If Moore Wins

December 12, 2017 at 4:49 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “is privately telling colleagues he will not back off of an ethics investigation if Roy Moore (R) is elected,” CNN reports.

“Senate Republicans plan to convene a meeting Wednesday morning to discuss their next steps if Moore wins the race.”

Filed Under: Ethics, Senate Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Big Majority Think Moore Should Be Kicked Out of Senate

December 12, 2017 at 1:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds that 61% of voters — including a plurality of Republicans — think the U.S. Senate should expel the embattled Roy Moore (R) if he wins election today in Alabama.

That includes 77% of Democrats, 59% of independents and 45% of Republicans.

Filed Under: Senate Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

GOP Party Official Resigns Over Roy Moore

December 11, 2017 at 3:46 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Republican national committeewoman Joyce Simmons resigned from her party leadership post in protest of the party’s financial support for GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore in Alabama, the Lincoln Journal Star reports.

Said Simmons: “I wish I could have continued my service to the national Republican Party that I used to know well.”

Filed Under: Republicans Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

How a Roy Moore Win Could Lead to Trump’s Undoing

December 11, 2017 at 11:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: 2017 Campaign, Members Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Moore Proposed Eliminating All Amendments After 10th

December 10, 2017 at 8:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) “appeared on a conspiracy-driven radio show twice in 2011, where he told the hosts in an interview that getting rid of constitutional amendments after the Tenth Amendment would ‘eliminate many problems’ in the way the US government is structured,” CNN reports.

“Moore cited the 17th Amendment, which calls for the direct election of senators by voters rather than state legislatures… The host agreed with Moore, before turning his attention to the 14th Amendment, which was passed during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War and guaranteed citizenship and equal rights and protection to former slaves.”

Said Moore: “People also don’t understand, and being from the South I bet you get it, the 14th Amendment was only approved at the point of the gun.”

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Roy Moore Spent Final Campaign Weekend In Philly

December 10, 2017 at 8:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “Confronting accusations that he harassed or molested teenage girls, Moore hasn’t held a public event since Tuesday, a decision that has perplexed some Republicans given the closeness of the race. Two Republicans briefed on Moore’s schedule before this weekend said he intended to spend Saturday in Philadelphia at the Army-Navy football game — a long-planned trip that the West Point grad had insisted he would still take this year despite the election.”

“One of those Republicans, who expressed concern about Moore’s absence, said that the planned trip was discussed with Moore’s campaign within the last few weeks and the candidate determined to go — case closed.”

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Why These Alabama Voters Are Sticking by Roy Moore

December 9, 2017 at 11:02 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Vice News: “Twelve conservative voters gathered inside a Birmingham coffee house Thursday for a candid discussion about the Alabama senate race.”

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Moore Accuser Admits She Altered Yearbook Inscription

December 8, 2017 at 1:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“One of the women who accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of making advances on her when she was a teen and he a local prosecutor admitted Friday to writing part of the yearbook inscription she offered as proof, a new crack in her story that gives Moore an opening to attack her credibility,” Fox News reports.

“Beverly Young Nelson told ABC News she added the date and place in the inscription in her high school yearbook that she and famed attorney Gloria Allred presented as proof the then-30-something Moore sought an inappropriate relationship with her in the late 1970s. Nelson still insisted that Moore wrote most of the message and signed the inscription, but said she made “notes” to it.”

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: Roy Moore

Senate Republicans Keep Distance from Roy Moore

December 7, 2017 at 4:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told the Weekly Standard that the committee will never support Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R), who has been accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls.

Said Gardner: “Roy Moore will never have the support of the senatorial committee. We will never endorse him. We won’t support him. I won’t let that happen. Nothing will change. I stand by my previous statement.”

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Why Republicans Need Roy Moore

December 6, 2017 at 11:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: 2017 Campaign, Budget & Taxes, Members Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Moore Spokesman Calls Accusers ‘Criminals’

December 5, 2017 at 2:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A spokesman for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) said that the women who accused him of sexual misconduct are “criminals” who are “seeking revenge” — arguing that there were plenty of “non-accusers that did not accuse the judge of any sexual misconduct,” the New York Post reports.

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

Trump Endorsement Triggers Ad Buy for Roy Moore

December 4, 2017 at 9:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump’s endorsement of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore triggered a flood of financial support, as America First Action invested $1.1 million in advertising on television and other venues just days before a crucial special election,” the Washington Examiner reports.

“The super PAC, affiliated with Trump’s official outside group, the political nonprofit America First Policies, saw the endorsement as a signal to enter the race on Moore’s behalf.”

Meanwhile, The Hill reports the RNC has reversed course and will now also provide support to Moore.

Filed Under: 2017 Campaign Tagged With: AL-Sen, Roy Moore

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