Wapo caught Project Veritas trying to sting them with a fake Judge Moore story. They didn't publish it then caught her going into PV's offices

i guess they googled her and found a go fund me that tipped them off

While he may vote similar to any other Republican. I believe he will turn Mitch The Bitch, McStain and Gramnesty on their ears.

I really don't think he will do the get along to get along thing.

Roy Moore says allegations 'completely false,' gets standing ovations at north Alabama rally

Roy Moore spoke for 29 minutes Monday night in rural northeast Alabama, took no questions from his audience or the media, left the room 20 seconds after he spoke his final word and received two standing ovations.

Before he even spoke a word, the Alabama Senate Republican nominee saw his audience stand and applaud at a community center in Henagar - a one stop light town located about 20 miles northwest of Fort Payne.

"I liked everything he said," said Robert Dunlap of Crossville, who sat in the front row as a crowd of about 200 people squeezed into a room so crowded it would have made a fire marshal wince.

Moore gave no new insight on the allegations that have hounded his campaign for the past 21/2 weeks, saying again the accusations he made unwanted romantic or sexual advances on teenage girls almost 40 years ago are "completely false."

"I don't know any of (the women)," he said.

Meanwhile, he spent much of his speech blasting the policies of his opponent, Democrat Doug Jones, while receiving ovations as he recited points illustrating how his philosophies are different.

He also said that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign are nothing more than an effort to distract the public from Congress failing to implement President Trump's agenda.

In explaining why he has come under attack, Moore compared it to the Russia probe.

"This is extravagant," Moore said of the "false attacks" made against him - including not only the allegations from the women, he said, but also his family and his Foundation for Moral Law. "this is beyond being attacked for various things, having your family attacked. Politicians stop at nothing. They'll publish false polls - which they are doing today. In trying to distort this, they'll go to false attacks.

"Why are they doing this? I'm going to tell you why they are doing this. They are trying to hide the true issues which affect the people of this country and this state that they want resolved. It's no different than when The Washington Post brought out the Russia investigation at a time when President Trump is trying to get his agenda passed. That's exactly what they are doing. They are taking the attention away and they're not getting anything they are doing. They are taking attention away from the Senate and from the Congress, who can't pass legislation. The people of this country want movement. They don't want false attacks like this. And that's exactly what's happening."

The crowd responded with cheers.

"That's what they are - they are allegations and they are not true," said Jan Cox of Leesburg.

She spoke outside the community center after the speech, saying that she had voted for Moore every time he's been on the ballot in the past and has heard him speak on multiple occasions.

"You wouldn't convince me that they are (true)," Cox said. "Because of all the years we've known Judge Moore's record and nothing has ever come out like this. They are scared to death and they are pulling all the punches and just seeing what will stick and trying anything they can to defeat this godly man."

Like Cox, Dunlap said after the speech, "I don't believe it. I know several of his neighbors who live down there (in Moore's hometown of Gallant in Etowah County). I just don't think it's there. Why wait 40 years for it to be brought out?

"And be brought in by a lawyer and evidently, she wrote her speech and told her what to say," he said, referring to accuser Beverly Young Nelson, who made her allegations against Moore at a New York press conference accompanied by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/roy_moore_speaking_tonight_at.html#incart_river_home

More at link.

U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne says he's 'very concerned with the image hit that Alabama is taking amid the heightened national attention to the Senate campaign between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones.'

The 'image hit that Alabama is taking' is all about the ridiculousness of Roy Moore's candidacy.

From the Al.com editorial: A vote for Roy Moore sends the worst kind of message to Alabamians struggling with abuse: "if you ever do tell your story, Alabama won't believe you."

Or, worse, we'll believe you but we just won't care.

To be clear: it's not only his record on women and children that disqualifies Moore. If we vote for Roy Moore, Alabama will also show that we don't care about you if you're gay or Muslim or Catholic. If you're an atheist or an immigrant. We'll show each other that we only care about Roy Moore's definition of Alabama. And that there's not room for the rest of us.

Byrne says he's concerned about Alabama's image, but he will vote for Roy Moore anyway.

Bradley Byrne, you have more sense than this. You could be a real leader if you had the guts to stand up for the people of this state's best interests. Speak your true mind.

You know Roy Moore is nothing but egomaniacal chaos.

Even Sen. Richard Shelby knows better than to support Moore.

You condone it. You own it.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/11/i_am_roy_moore_us_rep_bradley.html#incart_river_home

Trump might not stump for Roy Moore but the damage may already be done

Before departing for his Thanksgiving vacation last week, President Donald Trump teased a possible campaign visit for Roy Moore in Alabama. "I'll be letting you know next week," he said. Trump's comments were noncommittal, but they were a marked shift from previous White House assurances that Trump wasn't going. And Trump seemed to be hinting he'd actually have something newsworthy to say.

It wasn't to be. The Associated Press is reporting that Trump won't visit Alabama for Moore ahead of the Dec. 12 special election.

But this decision is weird for another reason entirely, and that's the fact that Trump has already effectively endorsed Moore. In that same Q&A with reporters and then in some tweets over the weekend, Trump made it crystal clear that he supports Moore over Democrat Doug Jones. Trump has focused on Jones's liberalism rather than saying nice things about Moore, sure, but he's clearly saying he wants Moore to win.

His decision not to actually travel to Alabama for Moore, then, would seem to be a pretty rough commentary on Moore's chances. Trump campaigned in person for Moore's primary opponent, appointed Sen. Luther Strange, after all, and he did robo-calls for Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governor's race. In the latter case, Gillespie seemed to want to associate with Trump's policies, but not necessarily with the man himself.

In both cases, of course, the Trump-backed candidate lost. Which brings us to Moore. In effectively endorsing Moore, Trump is at risk of going 0-for-3 in the last three high-profile statewide races. Trump may want the credibility with the GOP base that comes with standing by Moore, but that decision also comes with a heaping dose of potential future embarrassment.

And that's why not visiting Alabama is a curious decision. Trump is already distancing himself from the entire national GOP establishment by continuing to back Moore's candidacy. It's conspicuous, and it's not as though he'll be able to argue that he didn't support Moore if Moore loses (try as he might).

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/11/trump_might_not_stump_for_roy.html#incart_river_home

Thousands of Alabama felons register to vote in last-minute push

Thousands of felons across Alabama have registered to vote in recent weeks, according to Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who is heading up a statewide effort to get felons to the voting booth.

Glasgow's goal is to get as many felons as possible signed up to vote before the end of the day Monday, the deadline to be able to cast a ballot in Alabama's Dec. 12 U.S. Senate special election.

"In the last month, I think we registered at least five- to ten-thousand people all over the state," Glasgow, president of Dothan's The Ordinary People Society (TOPS) advocacy group, said Monday. "I've got people all over the state registering people with my TOPS branches in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Montgomery, Enterprise, Dothan, Abbeville, Geneva, Gordon, Bessemer, we have a lot."

For generations, most Alabamians convicted of a felony were barred from ever voting in the state again, but the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act, a new law passed by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey in May, cleared the way for thousands of felons to restore their voting rights.

The law lists several dozen felony convictions that are considered crimes "of moral turpitude," which means that anyone convicted of one of them loses the right to vote; other felons are now eligible to restore that right. Previously, the list of crimes that some registrars considered to be "of moral turpitude" was not clearly defined, and many felons simply believed they could never regain the franchise.

AL.com tagged along with Glasgow earlier this year as he helped register a felon at Dothan City Jail to vote.

Spencer Trawick lost the franchise in 2015 when he was convicted of third-degree burglary, a felony. But Glasgow informed Trawick in June - while he was still incarcerated at the Dothan jail - that he was able to regain his voting rights due to the passage of the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act. And Trawick went ahead that same day and filled out the required registration forms as Glasgow watched.

"I'm actually delighted about it, really," Trawick said at the time. "A lot of people get felonies and they just feel like their whole world's shattered because there's a lot of things that you can't do, but now that they passed that law a lot of people are going to run towards it."

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/advocates_make_last-minute_pus.html

I have found the AL.com article comments interesting. It's beyond obvious the vast majority of them are made from operatives outside the state of AL.

They are citing the same polls that show Obama being more popular in AL than Trump.

A person cannot support the United States Constitution and Sharia Law at the same time.

The 6 strangest things about the botched Roy Moore/Post sting

The Washington Post on Monday night published a detailed account of an apparent attempt to deceive Post reporters into believing a made-up story of a woman who says she had an abortion after Roy Moore, who is now the GOP Senate nominee in Alabama, impregnated her when she was 15. The woman was seen walking into the headquarters Monday morning of Project Veritas, a political operation that employs deceptive tactics in attempts to embarrass journalists and expose alleged bias.
But however this plot turned out, it's worth recapping just how poorly conceived and executed it was - and just how embarrassing this is for Project Veritas. Shortly after the woman was seen walking into the headquarters, founder James O'Keefe declined to answer questions about her connection to the organization.
Project Veritas has taken down some powerful people, but this was a mess. (And it's not alone in that distinction, as Will Sommer recounts.) Let's take it piece by piece.

1. The woman, Jaime Phillips, claimed to have spent only one summer in Alabama, yet she called from an Alabama area code and had "rolltide" in her email address
As The Post's Shawn Boburg, Aaron C. Davis and Alice Crites reported:
Back at the newsroom, [Post reporter Beth] Reinhard became concerned about elements of Phillips' story. Phillips had said she lived in Alabama only for a summer while a teenager, but the cellphone number Phillips provided had an Alabama area code.
Elsewhere in the story, they report that Phillips' "email address included 'rolltide,' the rallying cry of the University of Alabama's sports teams, which are nicknamed the Crimson Tide."
For someone who spent only a short time in Alabama - and claimed to have experienced what would seem to be a traumatic event during that short time - the woman sure seemed fond of the state, so much so that she rooted for its college sports teams and obtained an area code from the state.

2. She kept asking The Post's reporters to assure her that her information would take Moore down
Post reporters were apparently suspicious of the woman's repeated attempts to get them to say that her story would be the end of Moore's special election campaign in Alabama:
Phillips also repeatedly asked [Reinhard] to guarantee her that Moore would lose the election if she came forward. Reinhard told her in a subsequent text message that she could not predict what the impact would be. . . .
She said she wanted [Post reporter Stephanie] McCrummen to assure her that the article would result in Moore's defeat, according to a recording. McCrummen instead asked her about her story regarding Moore.
Phillips complained that President Trump had endorsed Moore.
"So my whole thing is, like, I want him to be completely taken out of the race," she said. "And I really expected that was going to happen, and now it's not. So, I don't know what you think about that."
It's pretty clear what was happening here: Phillips wanted to catch Post reporters talking in a way that suggested they were out to get Moore. It didn't happen, but she kept pressing the point in a way that would give any reporter pause. Even if she weren't working for Project Veritas, such extensive interest in a particular outcome would be a major red flag for a reporter.

3. Two companies disputed that she worked for or sought employment with them
Phillips told The Post that she had a job at NFM Lending in Westchester County, New York, but The Post called the company, and it turned out she didn't work there.
When confronted about a web page on which Phillips apparently said she was going to work "in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceit of the liberal MSM," Phillips explained that she had interviewed with the conservative Daily Caller. She named a woman named Kathy Johnson as her contact. That person doesn't exist, and the Daily Caller told The Post that Phillips didn't interview there.

4. She used her real name and left a paper trail
The above web page was a GoFundMe account seeking to raise money for a woman named Jaime Phillips's relocation to New York. One of the donors to it matches Phillips's daughter name, according to public records.
So Phillips apparently went to work as a covert operative, still used her real name and left a paper trail suggesting that she was working for such an organization.

5. Project Veritas's exposé of The Post includes a reporter talking about how opinionated The Post is - in its opinion section
As The Post prepared to publish Monday, Project Veritas and O'Keefe suggested repeatedly that The Post was fighting back against a damning video that Project Veritas was about to publish.
On Monday night, the video arrived. It featured Post employees surreptitiously recorded talking about how The Post's editorial section opposes President Donald Trump (which is news to nobody) and how Trump is good for business (which is also news to nobody).
Almost every newspaper has an editorial board that leans ideologically one way or the other and has strong opinions about issues of the day.
"ICYMI, our new #AmericanPravda series exposed two @washingtonpost employees admitting to an excessive bias in the Post's Editorial section, and saying that @realDonaldTrump drives their business," Project Veritas posted.

6. It also includes a Post employee talking about how The Post's "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan came to be - something The Post already explained
In the video, another Post employee talks about the origins of The Post's slogan and how Post owner Jeff Bezos liked it. But that already has been publicized . . . by The Post.
From The Post's Paul Farhi in February:
"The paper's owner, Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, used the phrase in an interview with The Post's executive editor, Martin Baron, at a tech forum at The Post last May. "I think a lot of us believe this, that democracy dies in darkness, that certain institutions have a very important role in making sure that there is light," he said at the time, speaking of his reasons for buying the paper. . . .
"The group brainstormed more than 500 would-be slogans. The choices ranged from the heroic ('Dauntless Defenders of the Truth') to the clunky ('American democracy lives down the street. No one keeps closer watch.') to the Zen-like ('Yes. Know.').
"The group ultimately ended up where it started - with 'Democracy Dies in Darkness.' "

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/the_6_strangest_things_about_t.html#incart_river_home

Sounds more like she was searching for her 15 minutes like two of the others

How did Roy Moore rule on sex abuse, sodomy court cases?

Roy Moore, Alabama's U.S. Senate candidate at the center of sexual misconduct allegations, has vehemently denied the claims of the women who have stepped forward in recent weeks and called the scandal a "witch hunt" aimed at dismantling his campaign.

While voters on Dec. 12 will ultimately decide whether Moore's political future includes a senate win, as a judge and later chief justice of the state's supreme court Moore was often faced with having to form an opinion on the fate of men charged in sex crime cases.

So how did he treat them?

AL.com reviewed news stories and decisions Moore made during his time on the Alabama Supreme Court and found 16 such cases-- some in which he agreed with court colleagues, and others in which he dissented in favor of the male defendants. One other case was identified from his time as a judge in Etowah County.

Among the cases in which he broke away from his colleagues was one in which he believed jurors should have been allowed to hear evidence that two 15-year-old female victims were in a lesbian relationship.

"It's a mixed bag," said Jenny Carroll, a professor at the University of Alabama's School of Law. She didn't necessarily see a pattern of Moore siding with sexual offenders, but said he tended to make "close calls" in several cases.

(There are whole bunch of cases. these two stuck out to me. Bama)

In other cases, like the Ernest Randy Judd case, Carroll noted that Moore took steps to protect the victim as she testified. Moore presided over Judd's trial when Moore was a circuit court judge in Etowah County.

Judd was convicted by a jury in 1994 of two counts of first-degree sodomy and three counts of first-degree sexual abuse. He was sentenced to two concurrent 30-year terms on the sodomy convictions and three concurrent five-year terms on the convictions for sexual abuse. According to previous stories from The Birmingham News, in 2001 the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the public was wrongly removed from a Gadsden courtroom when then-Circuit Judge Moore asked spectators to leave during a 14-year-old girl's testimony. The victim was testifying that her adoptive father-- Judd-- sexually abused her.

The federal appeals court said Moore's decision violated Judd's constitutional right to a speedy and public trial and sent the case back to a federal judge in Huntsville.

Their ruling said the Judd case involved "total closure" to the public, rather than partial closure in which the press and family members of the parties are allowed to remain. The panel described the total closing as a "drastic remedy," unsupported by any testimony, and said Moore did not follow procedures established by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Taken as a whole, Moore's decisions reveal a disturbing pattern," said Carroll, "not because he favors one side over the other, but because he seems unable or unwilling to produce decisions that consistently conform with established legal norms."

Among the cases The Times noted was that of Lee Carroll Brooker, a 77-year-old Houston County man serving a life without the possibility parole sentence for his 2014 conviction for possession of a few pounds of marijuana.

Moore concurred with his colleagues in denying Brooker's appeal. But he didn't like it. "Brooker's sentence is excessive and unjustified," Moore wrote in a separate special opinion.

Moore was outspoken as a member of the Alabama Prison Reform task force in 2014 about the state's habitual offender law that has resulted in three-time convicts serving life without parole sentences for non-violent crimes. "I'm concerned about the sentences we are rendering," Moore said. "I think the habitual offender law is being applied unfairly."

Matt Lembke, a Birmingham appellate lawyer who has argued cases in front of Moore, told The Times that "(Moore) consistently was more interested in the arguments of the criminal defendants than many of his colleagues." He said, "And I think that stemmed from a distrust of government power reflected in his judicial philosophy."

Bonds, a police officer, pleaded guilty to engaging in sex acts with a 16-year-old student while he was working as a school resource officer at Dothan High School. While Moore said he would have granted Bonds' request for the Alabama Supreme Court to review the case, Moore did not write any details as to why.

He did write that he does "not condone the behavior engaged in" by Bonds.

http://www.al.com/news/montgomery/index.ssf/2017/11/roy_moore_rulings.html#incart_river_home

A lot more cases at the link.

He seems to want to hold the .govt to a very high standard in the proving of guilt.

I also don't see how it is in the public interest to allow a gallery when a 14 yr old girl is giving testimony about her sexual abuse.

I agree with the marijuana conviction of a life term to be outrageous.

Agree.  I don't find any of those positions to be objectionable... particularly booting the gallery for a 14yo's testimony in an incest/abuse case.

Exclusive: Accuser to Roy Moore, 'Where does your immorality end?'

In an impassioned letter released exclusively today to AL.com, Leigh Corfman, who accused Roy Moore of undressing her when she was 14 and he was 32, demanded the Republican Senate candidate stop calling her a liar, and attacking her character and end his "smears and false denials."

AL.com received a copy of the letter in person from Corfman. She declined to comment beyond what was contained in the letter.

"I am not getting paid for speaking up. I am not getting rewarded from your political opponents. What I am getting is stronger by refusing to blame myself and speaking the truth out loud," the letter states.

"The initial barrage of attacks against me voiced by your campaign spokespersons and others seemed petty so I did not respond."

However, Corfman decided to write the open letter after hearing Moore's own remarks last night at a rally in Henagar, his first public appearance in nearly two weeks.

Moore on Monday gave no new insight on the allegations that have hounded his campaign for the past 21/2 weeks, saying again the accusations he made unwanted romantic or sexual advances on teenage girls almost 40 years ago are "completely false."

"I don't know any of (the women)," he said.

Corfman has said that when she was 14 Moore, who was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney, took her to his home where he removed her clothes and touched her over her bra and underwear. He was wearing his underwear at the time, Corfman said.

"I felt like I was the one to blame," she told The Today Show . "I was a 14-year-old child trying to play in an adult's world and he was 32-years-old."

Here is the letter in its entirety:

Mr. Moore,

When the Washington Post approached me about what you did to me as a child, I told them what happened, just as I had told family and friends years before. I stand by every word.

You responded by denying the truth. You told the world that you didn't even know me. Others in recent days have had the decency to acknowledge their hurtful actions and apologize for similar behavior, but not you.

So I gave an interview on television so that people could judge for themselves whether I was telling the truth.

You sent out your spokesmen to call me a liar. Day after day.

Finally, last night, you did the dirty work yourself. You called me malicious, and you questioned my motivation in going public.

I explained my motivation on the Today show. I said that this is not political for me, this is personal. As a 14-year old, I did not deserve to have you, a 32-year old, prey on me. I sat quietly for too long, out of concern for my family. No more.

I am not getting paid for speaking up. I am not getting rewarded from your political opponents. What I am getting is stronger by refusing to blame myself and speaking the truth out loud.

The initial barrage of attacks against me voiced by your campaign spokespersons and others seemed petty so I did not respond.

But when you personally denounced me last night and called me slanderous names, I decided that I am done being silent. What you did to me when I was 14-years old should be revolting to every person of good morals. But now you are attacking my honesty and integrity. Where does your immorality end?

I demand that you stop calling me a liar and attacking my character. Your smears and false denials, and those of others who repeat and embellish them, are defamatory and damaging to me and my family.

I am telling the truth, and you should have the decency to admit it and apologize.

Leigh Corfman

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/roy_moore_leigh_corfman_accuse.html#incart_big-photo

There's been a slight uptick in the number of registered voters in Alabama in the weeks leading up to Dec. 12 special election for the U.S. Senate.

John Bennett, communications director for Secretary of State John Merrill, said the number stood at 3,321,853 as of 4 p.m. today.

That's up from 3,311,656 in October, an increase of about 10,000.

Monday was the last day to register in time for the Dec. 12 election between Democratic nominee Doug Jones and Republican nominee Roy Moore.

Here's the racial breakdown of registered voters in Alabama:

2,332,607 white voters, 70.2 percent of the total.
883,736 black voters, 26.6 percent.
29,869 Hispanic voters, 0.9 percent.
20,225 Asian voters, 0.6 percent.
11,344 American Indians, 0.3 percent.
Voter participation was light during the primaries leading up to next month's election. Turnout was 18 percent for the August 15 Republican and Democratic primaries. It was 15 percent for the Sept. 26 runoff between Moore and Sen. Luther Strange.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/alabama_sees_slight_uptick_in.html#incart_river_home

Two new Alabama Senate race polls released this week have Republican Roy Moore holding an edge on Democrat Doug Jones exactly two weeks before voters go to the polls.

The pollsters said the results indicate Moore is overcoming the allegations made against him earlier this month from women who said the former Alabama chief justice made unwanted romantic or sexual overtures when they were teens in the 1970s.

Moore has repeatedly denied the allegations.

In a Change Research poll released Monday, Moore had 47 percent support to Jones' 42 percent. Another 7 percent said they were undecided while 4 percent said they planned to cast a write-in vote. Change said it estimated a 2 percent increase of support for each candidate based on responses by undecideds on which way they are leaning, giving Moore a 49-44 advantage.

That's a reversal to a Change poll conducted less than two weeks ago that had Jones with a three-point lead after the allegations were made against Moore.

An Emerson College poll, of which partial data was released Tuesday in a podcast, had Moore leading with 53 percent of the vote to Jones' 47 percent. Earlier this month, an Emerson poll put Moore ahead by 10 points. The poll was conducted Saturday through Monday.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/new_senate_polls_have_roy_moor_1.html#incart_river_home_pop

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