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DL Open Thread Saturday May 22nd 2021

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Cheney primary challenger says he impregnated 14-year-old

“She was a little younger than me, so it’s like the Romeo and Juliet story,” state Sen. Anthony Bouchard said of the girl he later married and divorced.

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  3. El Somnambulo
    May 22, 2021,

    Re: ‘Where the hell does the GOP find these candidates?’

    Jeffrey Epstein’s Rolodex?

    • puck
      May 22, 2021,

      “Cheney primary challenger says he impregnated 14-year-old”

      I sense the shadowy hand of Dick Cheney behind this revelation.

      • Alby
        May 22, 2021,

        It is not at all hard to find cases like this in the sexually-repressed Mormon West.

    • puck
      May 22, 2021,

      And, considering the 14 year old actually did commit suicide at age 20, perhaps it is a little like Romeo and Juliet. If Romeo had been appointed to the court of Verona.

  4. Mitch Crane
    May 22, 2021,

    Juliet was 13 and Romeo about 16. They were both certainly minors. The age of majority in Florida, where the “affair” happened was already 18 at that time. So, he was an adult. I also don’t recall Juliet getting pregnant. They spent the one night together but nothing more specific is written. I believe the law in Florida at the time defined minors’ “consensual sex” as where the victim is 14-17 and the perpetrator is no more than 4 years older.

    But I am sure Mr. Bouchard is “born again” and therefore forgiven anyway.

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