[Ari]

This thread could probably be retitled "conservatives do stupid shit"


8 Term Republican state representative drops re-election bid after daughter accuses him of long term sexual assault.
And yup, it's basically as bad as it sounds. Adding to the 'why didn't she tell anyone' she indeed did, a lot of people, including the police, and all of them said, 'Nah, probably not, besides he's powerful, case closed.'

ETA: Because these go so well together,
Six Siblings took at ads against their republican brother.

Arizona, the west's florida

“He just doesn’t appear to be well,” David Gosar told the Phoenix New Times.
“It would be difficult to see my brother as anything but a racist,” Grace Gosar reportedly says in an upcoming video.
“Where is his integrity? I don’t know,” says Jennifer Gosar in another.
Paul is willing to strip environmental protections “if benefits his interests or puts a dollar in his pocket from one of his constituents or large mining groups,” Gaston Gosar says in another.
“I think our brother has traded a lot of the values we had at our kitchen table,” says Joan Gosar.
“There isn’t a kooky, crazy, nutty thing that he isn’t a part of,” David Gosar told the Washington Post. “What are we supposed to do?”