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On a fall evening two years ago, donors gathered during a conference at a Ritz-Carlton hotel near Washington to raise funds for a 31-year-old candidate for the Ohio legislature who was a rising star in evangelical politics.
Hours later, upstairs in a hotel guest room, an 18-year-old college student who had come to the event with his parents said the candidate unzipped his pants and fondled him in the middle of the night. The frightened teenager fled the room and told his mother and stepfather, who demanded action from the head of the organization hosting the conference.
If we endorse these types of individuals, then it would seem our whole weekend together was nothing more than a charade, the stepfather wrote to Tony Perkins, president of the Council for National Policy.
Trust me . . . this will not be ignored nor swept aside, replied Perkins, who also heads the Family Research Council, a prominent evangelical activist group. It will be dealt with swiftly, but with prudence.
The incident, described in emails and documents obtained by The Washington Post, never became public, nor did unspecified prior similar incidents Perkins referred to in a letter to candidate Wesley Goodman. The correspondence shows Perkins privately asked Goodman to drop out of the race and suspended him from the council, but Goodman continued his campaign and went on to defeat two fellow Republicans in a hotly contested primary before winning his seat last November.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-conservative-group-dealt-with-a-fondling-charge-against-a-rising-gop-star/2017/11/17/b3b4b8da-c956-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html?utm_term=.bf1561ac03f8
RKP5637
(67,103 posts)deflection he uses in his mission against LGBT. Look at them, not me, I am a moral saint.
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(21,646 posts)fondling his sleeping son to realize that!