The Alabama Republican Party is sticking by Roy Moore even as women keep coming out of the woodwork to say he sexually pursued them when they were teens and he was in his 30s. The state Republican Party’s steering committee did not decide to remove Moore from the ballot during a Wednesday meeting. Moore, for his part, is working hard to smear his victims.
In addition to threatening to sue the publisher of AL.com for running stories on Moore’s sexual past, his lawyers held a Wednesday press event to try to discredit Beverly Young Nelson, who said that when she was a 16-year-old waitress, Moore offered her a ride home and then sexually assaulted her. But all the while, more women are coming forward to say that Moore inappropriately pursued them when they were teens—in fact, it’s starting to sound like every girl who worked in the Gadsden Mall in the late 1970s knew just what a creep Roy Moore was.
In all, The Post spoke to a dozen people who worked at the mall or hung out there as teenagers during the late ’70s and early ’80s and recall Moore as a frequent presence — a well-dressed man walking around alone, leaning on counters, spending enough time in the stores, especially on weekend nights, that some of the young women who worked there said they became uncomfortable.
At least one of the women has a story of Moore being extremely aggressive in trying to get her to go out with him—and definitely not asking her parents for permission, as he’s insisted he always did.
[Gena] Richardson says Moore — now a candidate for U.S. Senate — asked her where she went to school, and then for her phone number, which she says she declined to give, telling him that her father, a Southern Baptist preacher, would never approve.
A few days later, she says, she was in trigonometry class at Gadsden High when she was summoned to the principal’s office over the intercom in her classroom. She had a phone call.
“I said ‘Hello?’” Richardson recalls. “And the male on the other line said, ‘Gena, this is Roy Moore.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ He said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m in trig class.’ ”
Richardson says Moore asked her out again on the call. A few days later, after he asked her out at Sears, she relented and agreed, feeling both nervous and flattered. They met that night at a movie theater in the mall after she got off work, a date that ended with Moore driving her to her car in a dark parking lot behind Sears and giving her what she called an unwanted, “forceful” kiss that left her scared.
A friend of Richardson’s who worked at the mall with her corroborates her story. Those Breitbart reporters who are supposed to discredit Moore’s victims are sure going to have their hands full showing that all these women are lying. But believing the women is unlikely to be an acceptable answer over there at white nationalist news.
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