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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Roy Moore Banned From Gadsen Mall for Trolling Teens:
This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen peopleincluding a major political figure in the statewho told me that they had heard, over the years, that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls. Some say that they heard this at the time, others in the years since. These people include five members of the local legal community, two cops who worked in the town, several people who hung out at the mall in the early eighties, and a number of former mall employees. (A request for comment from the Moore campaign was not answered.) Several of them asked that I leave their names out of this piece. The stories that they say theyve heard for years have been swirling online in the days since the Post published its report. Sources tell me Moore was actually banned from the Gadsden Mall and the YMCA for his inappropriate behavior of soliciting sex from young girls, the independent Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson wrote on his Web site on Sunday. (Wilson declined to divulge his sources.) Teresa Jones, a deputy district attorney for Etowah County in the early eighties, told CNN last week that it was common knowledge that Roy dated high-school girls. Jones told me that she couldnt confirm the alleged mall banning, but said, Its a rumor Ive heard for years.
Greg Legat, who is now fifty-nine and living in East Gadsden, was, from 1981 to 1985, an employee at the Record Bar, a store that was in the Gadsden Mall. By the early eighties, Legat told me, the mall was the place to be. There were no empty stores. And lots of kids came around. Lots of teen-agers. You went there to see and be seen. Legat met his wife, Jo Anne, there. She worked at a restaurant called Orange Bowl. Legat remembers that parents dropped their kids off at the mall, typically unchaperoned. Teens filled the place.
Legat says that he saw Moore there a few times, even though his understanding then was that he had already been banned. It started around 1979, I think, Legat said. I know the ban was still in place when I got there. Legat recalled a Gadsden police officer named J. D. Thomas, now retired, who worked security at the mall. J. D. was a fixture there, when I was working at the store, Legat said. He really looked after the kids there. He was a good guy. J. D. told me, If you see Roy, let me know. Hes banned from the mall. Legat recalled Thomas telling him, If you see Moore here, tell me. Ill take care of him. Legat said that his boss, Eddie Hill, also told him to look for Moore. A phone call to Hills number was not returned.
Reached by phone on Saturday, Thomas, who lives in the nearby town of Southside, declined to discuss the existence of a ban on Moore at the Gadsden Mall. I dont have anything to say about that, he said. A former manager of the mall, who began working there in the late eighties, confirmed the existence of a ban list, but did not recall Moore being on the list during the managers tenure there. Barnes Boyle, who is eighty-six, also managed the mall, from 1981 to 1998. His wife, Brenda, told me that Moore was a longtime acquaintance of histhey went to the Y.M.C.A. together oftenand that he planned to vote for him. The recent allegations against Moore, the Boyles thought, are likely liberal propaganda and, as Brenda put it, a sign of the times.
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Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)Ligyron
(7,645 posts)SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)xor
(1,204 posts)This person is a real peach. This comment is the one that started it, though.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
I would think both these guys were wind-up accounts, but they both seem to be real people. Not sure how we're supposed to deal with those sorts of people
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This guy is such a disgusting perv. I hope he goes down in flames!
DFW
(54,515 posts)It was a Republican doing the molesting, it can't have happened, and whatever DID happen, it's all the fault of the libbruls.
IOKIYAR
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)DFW
(54,515 posts)Or Bill.
I can't play them all from Germany, but if you search "The Freedom Toast" and "Bill Clinton is to Blame-O" there is a song about how everything since destruction of Po,peii is blamed on Bill Clinton (also: "Faulting Bill Clinton" to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda"
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)under Bill. That's probably why they do it because none of those greedy bastards can come close to doing what he did. Plus, look at their sex scandals...pedophilia.
HYPOCRICY, that is what the Repubs stand for
DFW
(54,515 posts)I think there are some sites with the whole album for free, but you need to be a member or something
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Reminds me of the 3rd Reich.The Diebold recognizes that they don't want to count the votes or leave a paper trail. Merry Christmas. Wow! They are so malicious and it's obviously gone on for years.
No telling what they will try to do to Hillary now, with the new scam investigating.
DFW
(54,515 posts)If Trump and Sessions weren't in peril, they wouldn't even remember Hillary's name.
Here is the Republican Christmas song, by the way. Careful, it is rather biting (though true).
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)won't tar and feather her.
Very fitting. Parasites. I've heard rich Repubs say coach roaches, moocher scum in reference to people without money, and other darlings. Moochers and parasites are fav words from those so entitled with wealth.
Best example is Mnuchin and his wife, putting a price tag on all of the designer items she was wearing, while planning on the USAF jet for their honeymoon or to watch the eclipse.
DFW
(54,515 posts)"a real piece of work."
And they do NOT mean it in a positive way.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)DFW
(54,515 posts)Their reputation has been somewhat less than sterling of late, and I don't even think it is a felony in Greece any more of someone identifies themselves as a partner in Goldman Sachs and they meet with a fatal assault.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Munuchin only supports himself and his entitled friends and price tag wife.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)Of course, if it had been Obama fooling around, THEN it would be legit.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)been banned on his skin color alone!!
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)yardwork
(61,795 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)yardwork
(61,795 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Mendocino
(7,533 posts)no more.
Cary
(11,746 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)figure, respected occupation or position in the church, commands respect and trust, brandishes and hides behind religion, etc.
Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I've spent my career talking to people about other people. I hope more campaigns hire investigators who will do more than a five minute online search.
All this took was the Wash Post talking in person to 30 people.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)that has had issues keeping their pants or dress on. We got away with that once, never again. With unfaithful people, two affairs is just the tip of an iceberg. A good PI will find the truth and hurt us with it.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)But I am right.
SunSeeker
(51,813 posts)yardwork
(61,795 posts)Rightwingers in general tend to be perverts. I've noticed it.
paleotn
(18,015 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)With whom?
malaise
(269,328 posts)We can hope
Initech
(100,150 posts)But... Family values!!!!
herding cats
(19,569 posts)And yet, this predatory pervert was twice elected (and removed) Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court of Alabama, and is now their candidate for the US Senate.
Value Voters are such hypocrites.
yardwork
(61,795 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,865 posts)any memos archived from the Gadsden Mall from the time period in question regarding the banning of Roy Moore from the premises. If there is it sure would be enlightening, wouldn't it.
sandensea
(21,720 posts)And not because Roy-boy might try to violate said ban; but because he's got an army of deplorables ready to commit violence no matter what the cost.
paleotn
(18,015 posts)Since many seem to have no problem with this, I can only believe they are acquiescent of such behavior. No all in Bama, but a significant numbers. Dare I say a majority? And what does that say about the Republican party? Grand Ole Pedophiles?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,872 posts)perhaps put Trump on that same list.
brewens
(13,671 posts)assistant DA was the only thing keeping him from getting his ass kicked.
I did predict right at the start that it would be well known. I think that was why some republicans came out right away, even if they hedged it a bit by saying he should step down "if the allegations were true". If they didn't already know, they asked around and found out the rumors had been going around for years.
thucythucy
(8,135 posts)that his (alleged) deviant and dangerous behavior be called out.
Law enforcement officers must be held to a higher standard, since we as a society allow them so much authority and power. He was evidently definitely abusing his position in order to attack vulnerable teens ("I'm the DA, and no one will believe you."
This is like every other scandal where abuse by powerful people is known and ignored, placing more vulnerable people at risk.
The people--the adults--who weren't his victims--but who knew what he was doing should have brought this to the attention of Alabama law enforcement. And if Alabamans couldn't handle it, then the FBI.
How many more teens were victimized by this creep, and all because people "knew" he was creepy but decided not to act.
Question: did he work with any church youth groups?
brewens
(13,671 posts)NBachers
(17,191 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,839 posts)(snip)
Sources tell me Moore was actually banned from the Gadsden Mall and the YMCA for his inappropriate behavior of soliciting sex from young girls, the independent Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson wrote on his Web site on Sunday. (Wilson declined to divulge his sources.)
(snip)
Nitram
(22,971 posts)Blue Owl
(50,596 posts)n/t
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)Those scandalous young ladies luring a poor innocent man to the mall to seduce him so often they had to ban him for his own protection. Why did Hillary arrange for this to happen back in the 70s?
People knew he was a pervert/weirdo back then. They knew it was wrong!
kentuck
(111,111 posts)Otherwise, people might think less of them...
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)worship condone this, I wonder? Don't parents there protect their kids against creeps such as this? Old habits die hard, I wonder WHO he is abusing now?
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Kablooie
(18,648 posts)The more criminal he is the more popular he becomes with Trump's base.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)It is pretty disgusting that a lot of so called "Christians" want him to represent them. Moore should be in the sexual predator databases.
I'm a bit concerned that if he is elected, a lot of predatory-inclined men and borderline-predatory men who would not normally act on their impulses will see it as a go ahead to sexually assault children. Let's face it, it happened with Trump and his racist supporters. Hate crimes have been on the rise since he came on the scene as a candidate and now president. We need to nip this in the bud. I can't believe we have to tell people in the 21st century that sexually assaulting children is inappropriate. It's mind boggling. Wake me the f*ck up!
Initech
(100,150 posts)Sancho
(9,072 posts)I've never been banned from a mall or YMCA...
Have any of you ever been banned?
unhip white guy
(78 posts)I'm assuming there's gonna be more places banning him.
Pluvious
(4,348 posts)Two very different meanings...