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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLindsey Graham: If Moore can't be in mall, he can't be in Senate
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/360533-graham-if-moore-cant-be-in-mall-he-cant-be-in-senateGraham: If Moore can't be in mall, he can't be in Senate
By Jordain Carney - 11/15/17 03:10 PM EST
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Wednesday that allegations that Roy Moore was banned from an Alabama mall are the latest indication that the GOP candidate shouldn't serve in the Senate.
"I've got a general rule, if you can't be in a mall, you shouldn't be in the Senate," Graham told reporters.
He added that Moore was on a "no fly list for a mall, which to me is pretty stunning."
Residents of the county where Moore was once the assistant district attorney say it was common knowledge that he would flirt with and try to date teenage girls, The New Yorker and Alabama news outlet AL.com reported Monday.
A local Alabama reporter, referenced in The New Yorker, also noted that sources told him Moore was banned from the Gadsden Mall.
"If you get kicked out of a mall, that's a pretty bad situation to find yourself in. I think the evidence is becoming overwhelming that he had a problem," Graham added on Wednesday.
Senate Republicans are pressuring Moore to drop out of the Senate race, and warning he will face an ethics investigation if he wins the special election next month.
But Moore has shown no signs of backing down in the wake of a bombshell report about him making sexual advances toward teenage girls decades ago. A fifth woman coming forward on Monday who said he sexually assaulted her when she was 16.
Moore, instead, has taken multiple shots at Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and denied wrongdoing.
Graham said on Wednesday that Moore is "portraying himself as a victim when really he's being held accountable for behavior that was at the minimum creepy."
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Lindsey Graham: If Moore can't be in mall, he can't be in Senate (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2017
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Bleacher Creature
(11,252 posts)1. Graham is the absolute worst, but he's 100% right on this. NT
Lucky Luciano
(11,248 posts)3. If GRaham is the absolute worst, what does that make mooreon?
Bleacher Creature
(11,252 posts)5. Fair point.
Graham is one to two notches down from the absolute worst.
How's that?
LisaL
(44,972 posts)2. So what are they gonna do when he is elected?
Does anybody think he isn't going to be elected?
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)6. Even with all the terrible accusations, We are talking about alabama..........
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)8. There is only two methods to ensure Moore doesn't win.
- Doug Jones is elected from Alabama voters.
- The Alabama Republican Party decertifies him from the ballot. Name remains, but votes cast for him won't count.
Anything else is just noise, especially from the R side.
ps, did a search through the AL SOS office, no keyword search on removal, but have seen this published.
this article can explain it with links better than I can:
http://time.com/5018952/roy-moore-alabama-republican-party-senate-race/
Denzil_DC
(7,222 posts)4. Catchy and true.
Run with it.
pandr32
(11,553 posts)7. Sounds like a good slogan against him
Barred from mall--bar from Senate
Volaris
(10,266 posts)9. ok now that made me laugh...
is Lindsey not planning on standing for re-election, and just hasnt told us yet?