According to today's Washington Post, George Allen traveled to Roanoke to get the endorsement of immigration foe Chris Simcox. Simcox's two ex-wives regard him as a highly dangerous person, and one claims he tried to molest their daughter.
The Post says: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Allen started his day in Roanoke, where he focused on illegal immigration. He picked up the endorsement of Chris Simcox, founder and chairman of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which is battling illegal immigration along the U.S. border with Mexico and elsewhere. Minutemen have been in Herndon videotaping day laborers and would-be employers after the Town Council there approved setting up a controversial center to host day laborers seeking work.
But according to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
http://www.splcenter.org/...
The truth is more complex and troubling. Court records obtained by the Center's Intelligence Project show Simcox's second ex-wife, Kim Dunbar, filed an emergency appeal in September 2001 to obtain full custody of their teenage son because she feared that Simcox had suffered a mental breakdown and was dangerous.* The court ruled in Dunbar's favor, ending the joint custody arrangement and awarding Dunbar sole custody of their son.
See: Custody petition informing court of ex-husband's mental state
http://www.splcenter.org/...
He's possibly a child molester - his own child by his first marriage! http://www.splcenter.org/...
In separate interviews with the Intelligence Report, two of Simcox's former colleagues at Wildwood and his first ex-wife gave the same account. They said that Simcox helped his daughter get a job babysitting for a Wildwood School employee and that one night, Simcox's daughter showed up unexpectedly at her employer's house, visibly upset, alleging that her father had just attempted to sexually molest her.
"He tried to molest our daughter when he was intoxicated," said Deborah Crews, Simcox's first ex-wife and the girl's mother. "When she ran out, he tried to say he was just giving her a leg massage and she got the wrong idea."
Contacted by the Report, Simcox refused to answer four direct questions about the molestation allegations. "I would never answer those questions to you. You can't ask those questions," he said. "You're on a witch hunt and you're trying to discredit our movement, which is to secure the borders. ... My personal life has nothing to do with anything that goes on here."
No charges were filed against Simcox, but Crews said she and her daughter immediately broke off all contact with him.
"He's a drastic, chaotic, very dangerous guy," said Crews. "I'm surprised he hasn't shot anybody yet. I see him on TV and I have to turn if off, because it makes me sick to see him getting all this attention."