GOP Michigan State Senator Now Says He Was Misquoted

Michigan state Sen. Peter Lucido (R) has changed his story on the comment he made to local reporter Allison Donahue that a group of high school boys “could have fun” with her.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1285264

He said that he was merely referring to the awkwardness boys from all-male schools feel around women.

And, apparently, men, too.

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Please let her have had her recorder running… :pleading_face:

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Yes…they are always misquoted.

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Um, that would be Mr. Quoted.

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Uh-huh. Sure. Right. #IBelieveHim

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Painting the back of my old army jacket: I DON’T BELIEVE HIM, DO YOU?

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Wasn’t this caught on audio tape? I might be wrong…

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Trust a haircut like that? Nah

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Lying dickhead.

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Yes when they finally realize that the rest of the world doesn’t think like him, think that what he said was funny, think that what he said in front a group of high school boy appropriate, and thus we get the “I was misquoted”, “I’m sorry if anyone was offended by what I said”, and “It’ was a joke, can’t you take a joke”.

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He is a stupid dickhead to boot. Should have kept his mouth shut but he thinks he can tweak his statement and get himself out of this mess. Typical entitled Republican white male.

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It’s the hairstyle of the American Psycho

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Oh, there’s no need. He said what he said. This new version is ridiculous. He’s acting like a 5-year-old saying someone else broke the lamp. Pathetic. He’s launched himself out of his own stupid-ass horny lummox sex-fantasy bubble into the modern world where this stuff is unacceptable.

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the awkwardness boys from all-male schools feel around women

That’s the boy’s problem. They should seek counseling.

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In subsequent interviews with the Washington Post and WDIV-TV, he said that he was actually misquoted.

“I said, ‘We’re going on the (Senate) floor to have some fun; you’re welcome to join us,’” he told WDIV-TV, blaming Donahue for misinterpreting his remark.

Per Donahue:
As he walked away, Donahue recalled that he said “you could have a lot of fun with these boys, or they could have a lot of fun with you.”

When he came back, she told him she’d found the remark “unprofessional.” He said that he was merely referring to the awkwardness boys from all-male schools feel around women. Donahue has the second part of the conversation recorded and embedded in the first-person [account](https://www.michiganadvance.com/2020/01/15/i-tried-to-interview-sen-peter-lucido-he-told-me-a-group-of-schoolboys-could-have-a-lot-of-fun-with-me/) she wrote for her paper, the Michigan Advance.

So, if you take his recorded lie now about “fun on the Senate floor” and combine that with Donahue’s embedded recording of him claiming he was just talking about awkwardness of boys around women … oh, I get it. He was saying all along that boys from all-male schools are awkward around women playing on the Senate floor.

Makes perfect sense.

Keep digging, jerk.

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Because all of the high school boys would have been laughing at your praising her journalistic skills, right?

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Draco Malfoy really owned that look, too.

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The more he talks, the worse he sounds about it.

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I thought Trumps past actions indicate it is okay to act this way?

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