Roy Moore Opponent Doug Jones: ‘Men Who Hurt Little Girls Should Go To Jail — Not To The U.S. Senate’

Democratic senatorial candidate Doug Jones speaks at a news conference, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in Dolomite, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Democratic senatorial candidate Doug Jones speaks at a news conference, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in Dolomite, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Alabama Senate Democratic nominee Doug Jones came out swinging at Republican Roy Moore on Tuesday, drawing a sharp contrast between his career as a prosecutor and Moore, who faces allegations from multiple women of initiating sexual encounters when they were teenagers.

“I damn sure believe and have done my part to ensure that men who hurt little girls should go to jail — not to the U.S. Senate,” Jones said in a Tuesday campaign speech that took on a more combative tone than in the past.

Jones is best known for reopening a cold case and successfully prosecuting KKK members who bombed a black church in Birmingham, Ala. in 1963, killing four young girls.

Nine women have come forward to accuse Moore of inappropriate sexual actions, including one who was 16 when she says he violently sexually assaulted her and another who was 14 when she says he initiated a sexual encounter. Before those accusations, he was best known for getting thrown off the Alabama Supreme Court twice for failing to follow the rule of law — and for his hardline theocratic views that his interpretation of the Bible supersedes the Constitution and harsh anti-gay and anti-Muslim statements.

In spite of that, he’s climbed back into a virtual tie with Jones in recent public and private polls — and President Trump doubled down on his endorsement of Moore on Monday, possibly further boosting his campaign.

Jones’s pointed line wasn’t his only broadside against Moore during the speech.

He also warned a Moore win would “be bad for business in Alabama, bad for the economy, and bad for our country” — and attacked Moore for coauthoring a classroom curriculum that taught women shouldn’t run for public office.

“Roy Moore was already an embarrassment to this state before nine courageous women chose to share their deeply personal and disturbing encounters with him from a time when he was a thirty-something year old Assistant District Attorney and they were only teenagers, one as young as 14,” he said.

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  1. Quoting from article on the daily beast…

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/doug-jones-tears-into-roy-moore-men-who-hurt-little-girls-should-go-to-jail

    Good. Tell it like it is.

  2. That’s how you go for the jugular, Dems.

    Moore has had a terrible start to the week. Jones has had a great start. Jones has about 8x more money than Moore. He has an extensive GOTV operation out there. He’s going to finish this race strong.

  3. The choice couldn’t be clearer. Now we’ll find out what Alabama’s made of. It may not be pretty.

  4. If this election is about what AL voters are made of we might as well forget about it. This is the land of the KKK and slavery and Jim Crow. This is a state that made George Wallace famous for his racism as their governor. Alabama voters have been showing what they are made of for a couple centuries now. And it ain’t good.

  5. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    And strong in Alabama means he’ll only lose by 5 points.

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