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Post by Half-Tard on Nov 27, 2012 18:54:27 GMT -5
Over at The City Paper, Pierce Greenberg reports that Brad Staats, the former GOP candidate who ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Congressman Jim Cooper in Tennessee's 5th District, was arrested early Sunday morning for allegedly slapping his wife. From the CP: Staats, a Republican, admitted to police that he “pushed his wife ... down onto a bed then left the location,” according to a Metro Nashville Police Department affidavit. The report also indicates that Staats' wife Bethany called police to their Hermitage home and told police Staats slapped her. “Ms. Staats did have a red mark on her left cheek consistent with her statement,” the affidavit reads. The former Republican candidate for Tennessee's 5th District was booked into Davidson County Jail at 3:39 a.m. on Sunday morning. Staats, 43, was charged with one count of misdemeanor domestic assault, posted a $5,000 bond and was released. Back in August, I profiled Staats, a self-described "family-matters" conservative whom party officials described as a "top-tier candidate." He attracted national headlines last month, when he posted a picture of a gun on his Facebook page with a caption in defense of the Second Amendment including the message "Welcome to Tennessee, Mr. Obama." www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2012/11/26/former-gop-congressional-candidate-brad-staats-arrested-for-domestic-assault
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Nov 29, 2012 16:20:30 GMT -5
Domestic violence reaches across all incomes, races and cultures. For you to trivialize such an issue with political vitriol demeans the victims. You should be (but probably won't be) ashamed.
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Post by Half-Tard on Nov 29, 2012 17:49:19 GMT -5
You're right and i'm not ashamed. How the hell do you make through the day you're so easily offended, everyone's a victim, or a survivor blah,blah,blah,,sack up man good gawd son just sack up!!!
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Dec 3, 2012 11:35:36 GMT -5
Who said anything about being offended? Your lack of shame belies your lack of compassion and moral guidance. Ethics up man, just ethics up.
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Post by ssmynkint on Dec 3, 2012 19:16:13 GMT -5
And trivializes the crime and the hyper-aggressive mentality/culture behind it.
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Post by TNBear on Dec 3, 2012 19:21:47 GMT -5
Giving Ace time to look up ethics in the dictionary.....
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