West Virginia state Sen. Mike Maroney (R) was charged with solicitation after he surrendered to local police on Wednesday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1245603
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1245603
Does he have a Solicitor?
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“We take this allegation incredibly seriously,” state Senate president Mitch Carmichael ® told local CBS affiliate 59 News.
“We will do everything possible to ensure that we hold our Senate, our members, our staff, to very high ethical standards,” he said.
More proof: Every Rethugliklan thinks they’re a comedian.
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A Republican soliciting sex is like “dog bites man” these days. Wake me when a Republican actually honors his marriage vows and isn’t a hypocrite on sex-related issues.
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What makes this even more shocking is that Maroney was not propositioning a female relative, betraying West Virginia values like some coastal elite.
“We will do everything possible to ensure that we hold our Senate, our members, our staff, to very high ethical standards,” [Carmichael] said.
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha, yeah, whatever pendejo.
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Shockingly, it was with a woman, not an under-aged boy. Progress?
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I guess no one taught him that you don’t put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want someone else to read.
Perhaps he could seek guidance from a fine, upstanding man of god like Jerry Falwell, Jr. Oh, wait…
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I’m just relieved it was a human being.
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We could all use this, and it’s not even Friday.
I’m feeling sorry for Randy, he must be the hardest working song dance man working today.
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I don’t understand the basic timeline here.
Did that evidence come to light before he turned himself in? Or was the very first clue that he walked into the PD and confessed?
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Is there someone somewhere who is keeping a tally of Reps and Dems arrested for crimes in the past 2 and 1/2 years? It would be interesting to see state vs. federal. Whether, if in a legislature they were in the majority or minority party. The nature of the crimes involved, I.e., fiscal, sexual, garden variety criminal, politically connected, etc. and i’m sure there’s other data to mine.
I would think from my reading the Reps would be far and away the major perps and lead in every category. I’m curious about whether being in the majority party in, for example, a state legislature, gives rise to more offenses.
This is totally for curiosity’s sake, but I also think it could set the stage for a compelling, very useful campaign ad at every level in the 2020 elections. It would shine a light on the GOP as the family-friendly standard bearer for the all-American life. I know Trump has already knocked the overhead light out with no consequences, but this could bring it closer to home
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But he’s a john. Johns are totally immune, no?
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Especially in West Virginia.
Unless they solicit from a miner.
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The article only mentions one amount of money, the bond for $4,500. For that he could have purchased multiple sessions with a sex worker, or simply offered a really great get-away weekend to the woman of his desires. And if he’s really got his game on, that’s about 900 get-lucky coffee dates! Now if he spends that money on Cialis or Viagra, he’ll be nothing but a hardened criminal.
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Ah yez, the old karma sutra.
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If I were retired, I would gladly devote a season to painstakingly collecting that information and crunching the stats.
There would also be whiskey.
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The TPM reporting on this one was bad, but from the linked story it appears he turned himself in to preempt an arrest warrant. They seem to have a pic and texts tied to his phone number trying to solicit a prostitute.
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What happens in the holler stays in the holler.
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The curse of family values…
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