Discussion: Former Dem Staffer Gets No Jail Time After Pleading Guilty To Rape

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I think TPM shouldn’t be content with just linking to AP stories, without doing any other work, when AP stories are typically incomplete. My first question: That’s his whole punishment? He doesn’t have to register as a sex offender too? I had to go to the Huffington Post–yes, the Huffington Post, which got its initial information from the Washington Post, but then apparently actually had the same question I did and researched the answer (wow, journalism!)–to find out that indeed he has to register as a sex offender for the next 10 years.

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The Good 'Ol Boyz club is, and always has been, bipartisan.

Was he “too pretty” for prison?

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That’s almost irrelevant. Why the fuck is he not going to jail for 10 years? Never mind the fact that any other sex offender would have to register forever.

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Just focus on the Republican war on women please.

Wow. What a lucky piece of shit this guy is.

Oh, in other words he “Cosbied” this woman. He did a Cosby: to drugged a person and then rape them.

If you have to explain a term, you probably shouldn’t use it.

I don’t give a damn what his political affiliation is. He raped two women and isn’t going to jail. That’s wrong, and yet so emblematic of how women’s lives are valued so much less than the men who assault them.

Did he go to UVa?

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“Prosecutors plan to seek a suspended prison term and five years of supervised probation.”

Now, that should send a clear message to all would-be rapists.

Amen to that!

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