Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is set to be the keynote speaker at a St. Louis Area Police Chiefs Association prayer breakfast this week. But a spokesperson for St. Louis County prosecutor questioned whether it was appropriate for the governor, who faces charges for offenses related to computer tampering and taking a nonconsensual nude photo of a woman, to speak at the religious event.
“Chiefs, Are you sure you want a guy currently charged with a felony as your guest speaker?” county prosecutor Robert McCulloch’s spokesperson Ed Magee wrote, according to a copy of the email obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “That will not be good press wise.”
Read the full Post-Dispatch report here and TPM’s most recent coverage of the charges lobbed against Greitens here.
And why exactly are police chiefs having a “prayer event” in the first place? I swear, we are sliding daily toward some weird fascist theocracy–in which case, Greitens is the perfect choice.
Their other choice, Roy Moore, is busy that day.
No sht. But I’m sure their reply is ‘we KNOW he’s praying to have those demons removed’ and whispering among themselves ‘After all he’s a Republican!’…
On the other hand…the meta message is perfect. Carry on.
Let us now say the prayer for the handcuffs, the whip and the chain.