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Tuesday 14 November 2017
New sex assault allegation hits Moore; withdrawal calls grow

By ALAN FRAM tian conservative and for-
BRUCE SCHREINER mer state Supreme Court
Associated Press judge, fired back at Mc-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Yet Connell on Twitter.
another woman abruptly “The person who should
emerged Monday to ac- step aside is @SenateMa-
cuse Roy Moore of sexually jLdr Mitch McConnell. He
assaulting her as a teenag- has failed conservatives
er in the late 1970s, this time and must be replaced.
in a locked car, further roil- #DrainTheSwamp,” Moore
ing the Alabama Repub- wrote.
lican’s candidacy for an Nelson’s news conference
open Senate seat. Leaders came after that exchange
of Moore’s own party inten- and injected a new, sen-
sified their efforts to push sational accusation in the
him out of the race. story.
Anticipating a tearful Bev- She said Moore was a regu-
erly Young Nelson’s allega- lar customer at the restau-
tions at a New York news rant where she worked af-
conference, Moore’s cam- ter school in Gadsden, Ala-
paign ridiculed her attor- bama. She said he would
ney, Gloria Allred, before- talk to her and sometimes
hand as “a sensationalist pull the ends of her hair,
leading a witch hunt.” The Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore waits to speak the Vestavia which she considered flirta-
campaign said Moore was Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. According to a Thursday, Nov. 9 tious but didn’t bother her.
innocent and “has never Washington Post story an Alabama woman said Moore made inappropriate advances and had One night when she was
had any sexual misconduct sexual contact with her when she was 14. Moore is denying the allegations. 16, Moore offered to drive
with anyone.” He insisted (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) her home, she said, but in-
he was in the race to stay. improper relationships with should win “the Senate not afford to lose. “I believe stead parked the car be-
In the latest day of jarring teenage girls. No, said should vote to expel him the women,” he said, mark- hind the restaurant and
events, Senate Republican Moore, the Kentucky sena- because he does not meet ing an intensified effort by touched her breasts and
leader Mitch McConnell tor is the one who should the ethical and moral re- leaders to ditch Moore be- locked the door to keep
and Moore essentially de- get out. quirements of the United fore a Dec. 12 special elec- her inside. She said he
clared open war on each Cory Gardner of Colora- States Senate.” tion that has swung from an squeezed her neck while
other. McConnell said the do, who heads the Senate McConnell took a remark- assured GOP victory to one trying to push her head to-
former judge should quit GOP’s campaign organi- ably personal swipe at his that Democrats could con- ward his crotch and tried
the race over a series of zation, said not only should party’s candidate for a ceivably swipe. to pull her shirt off.
recent allegations of past Moore step aside but if he Senate seat the GOP can- Moore, an outspoken Chris- Moore finally stopped and
as she got out of the car,
he warned her no one
would believe because he
was a county prosecutor,
Nelson said. She said she
quit her job the following
day.
Nelson said that shortly
before that, days before
Christmas, she’d brought
her high school yearbook
to the restaurant and
Moore signed it.
A copy of her statement
distributed at the news
conference included a
picture of what she said
was his signature and a
message saying, “To a
sweeter more beautiful
girl I could not say, ‘Merry
Christmas.’”
Last Thursday, The Wash-
ington Post reported that
in 1979 when he was 32,
Moore had sexual contact
with a 14-year-old girl and
pursued romantic relation-
ships with three other teen-
age girls around the same
period. The women made
their allegations on the re-
cord and the Post cited
two dozen other sources.q