Imagine stumping through your home district, pressing flesh right and left, talking to your neighbors and potential constituents, with this Mr. Smith/Justin Trudeau earnestness about how you’re going to go to Washington and you won’t make everything perfect but you’ll sure do your best to make it better…
…and then you win your election and go to the Hill and you find yourself stuck sitting on some fucking select committee arguing about who should look through some girl’s high school yearbook to determine whether or not a candidate for the United States Senate is a creepy pervert.
How can we ask decent and honest and hard-working men and women to put their careers on hold and go waste their time with this? Great work, Alabama. Great work, Murdoch. Great work, GOP.
Roy Moore obviously signed her yearbook at the restaurant. If he did she was obviously there by him when he signed it. I mean come on, the name of the restaurant is under his signature. I read there is another way to prove that it is really Moore’s signature, and that is to do a carbon date test from the ink. If it is older than 30 years old it would be pretty hard for Moore’s accuser to have gone back in time to fake his signature. LOL.
Actually, it looks like his lawyer produced a signature to compare that does not look like a lot of Moore’s other signatures on other public documents. In other words, the yearbook signature looks like the way Moore signs his name most of the time.
It wouldn’t be carbon dating, but I have NO doubt that banks and others have ways of establishing the age of ink. There is a Roy Moore age joke here, but I can’t quite nail it.
Roy Moore doesn’t get to make ANY demands. Roy Moore can stand for a vote, up or down. If he lands in the US Senate his skeevy yearbook message will be awaiting his inquiry.
OT: I visited with Senator George Mitchell in his office and he had a Celtics’ 84-85 championship ball with signatures from the whole team. It was pretty cool. Then he pointed out the coolest part.
Bill Bradley came into his office, saw the ball, picked it up, and signed it. Mitchell rolled his eyes. I love that.
It certainly matters exactly where and how the yearbook was signed. There are too many possibilities to enumerate, but I’m sure a ‘good’ handwriting analyst would consider them.
As far as the divorce proceedings, what difference does it make? She doesn’t get to choose the judge assigned to the case. I’m not familiar with Alabama laws, but I assume that contesting a judge might be more complicated than it would be worth in time and money.
Would love to see a handwriting analyst’s take on Roy’s script and signature on that yearbook. There appear to be a lot of protuberances in his loops and capital strokes, especially that R and M in his signature.
According to Mrs Strad (who was a very sought-after paralegal in another life), you can shop for judges to a limited extent.
Most jurisdictions assign DR cases on a sequential basis. If you want a particular judge on the case, you instruct the runner to determine where things are in the sequence and position themselves in line accordingly.
That’s the reason most jurisdictions allow the respondent to request reassignment of their case without specifying cause.
Putting on my mathematician hat, it would make more sense to randomize judge assignment.
