‘Bigfoot Erotica’ Makes Appearance In Virginia House Race

UNITED STATES - June 20: Denver Riggleman, Republican candidate for Virginia's 5th Congressional district, is interviewed by CQ Roll Call at their D.C. office, June 20, 2018. (Photo by Thomas McKinless/CQ Roll Call).
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Of all the skeletons that routinely get wrenched from closets during congressional campaigns, Virginia’s 5th District has shone a light on a strange one: Bigfoot erotica.

Journalist Leslie Cockburn, the Democrat taking on Republican former Air Force intelligence officer Denver Riggleman for Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-VA)’s vacated seat, tweeted Sunday calling Riggleman a “devotee of Bigfoot erotica.”

Her accusations about Virginia GOP Senate nominee Corey Stewart come from Riggleman’s refusal to outrightly deny that he would campaign with him.

Stewart has reportedly endorsed a known white nationalist and met with the leader of the Charlottesville rally. In keeping with the spirit of the campaign, Stewart’s spokesperson recently called majority-black communities “shitholes.”

Cockburn followed up her startling tweet with another picture of a nude and censored Bigfoot from Riggleman’s Instagram page.

Riggleman reportedly called the accusations “absurd” and said that the Bigfoot posts are part of an old military joke. However, he has co-authored at least one book on the mythical beast: “Bigfoot Exterminators Inc. The Partially Cautionary, Mostly True Tale of Monster Hunt 2006.”

Riggleman and Cockburn are fighting for Garrett’s seat, which he was forced to give up after accusations flooded in from aides accusing him and his wife of forcing them to fulfill tasks—like picking up after their dog and shuttling their children around—that fell far outside the purview of their professional duties.

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  1. “I’m not a witch.”

  2. That picture does not live up to the headline !

  3. Bigfoot Erotica

    So many memes, so little time…

  4. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Has the extremism of the GOP (lurching more and more beyond the fringe starting with the TeaParty and diving off the edge of fringe with Trump) - chased any seemingly normal person/potential candidate out of the party?

    And “Bigfoot Erotica” - who knew there was such a thing. Oh a fringey GOPer apparently knew.

  5. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

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