An Alabama GOP official plans to vote for Roy Moore for Senate regardless of the allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
The Bibb County Republican Chairman doesn’t condone Moore’s alleged behavior, but said he would not want to cast a vote supporting his Democratic rival Doug Jones.
“I would vote for Judge Moore because I wouldn’t want to vote for Doug,” Jerry Pow told the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale in an exchange tweeted by Dale on Thursday.
More Hall: “The other women that they’re using to corrobrate: number one, one was 19, one was 17, one was 16. There’s nothing wrong with a 30-year-old single male asking a 19-year-old, a 17-year-old, or a 16-year-old out on a date.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2017
After a long pause, Alabama Bibb County Republican chairman Jerry Pow tells me he’d vote for Roy Moore even if Moore did commit a sex crime against a girl.
“I would vote for Judge Moore because I wouldn’t want to vote for Doug,” he says. “I’m not saying I support what he did.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2017
Allegations against the Republican Senate candidate surfaced in an explosive report from The Washington Post Thursday, revealing accusations that decades earlier Moore had engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with younger girls, including a 14-year-old girl when he was 32.
Roy Moore underage sex claim surfaces before Alabama’s U.S. Senate special election https://t.co/cENCqPNw1a pic.twitter.com/L4G4sct0Rq
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) November 10, 2017
Other Alabama county officials also told Dale they would still vote for Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, called the story “a desperate political attack.”
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Mobile County Republican Chairman John Skipper dismissed the allegations as “bunk.”
Alabama Mobile County GOP chairman John Skipper: “It does not really surprise me. I think it is a typical Democratic – Democrat – ploy to discredit Judge Moore, a sincere, honest, trustworthy individual.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2017
“These allegations that surfaced today – to my knowledge, they’re all bunk. No credibility whatsoever,” Mobile County Republican chairman John Skipper tells me.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2017
“I really can’t comment until I have a chance to digest it,” says Tallapoosa County GOP chairwoman Denise Bates. “Nothing to say,” says Marengo County chairman Robert Duke.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2017
Moore is running against Democrat Doug Jones after beating Trump-backed Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP primary runoff for Alabama’s open Senate seat which was held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions until earlier this year. Some Republican lawmakers have called on Moore to step down if the allegations are true and the GOP may still be able to remove him as a Republican candidate on the ballot if they so choose.
Moore has denied the allegations and took to Twitter to blast the report and declare he “will NEVER GIVE UP the fight!”
The Obama-Clinton Machine’s liberal media lapdogs just launched the most vicious and nasty round of attacks against me I’ve EVER faced!
We are are in the midst of a spiritual battle with those who want to silence our message. (1/4) #ALSen
— Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 9, 2017
Our children and grandchildren’s futures are on the line.
So rest assured — I will NEVER GIVE UP the fight! (4/4) #ALSenpic.twitter.com/QfN0GM7EMh
— Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 9, 2017
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