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Monday 13 noveMber 2017

Roy Moore says allegations are intended to derail Senate bid

By JEFF AMY and KIM fill the U.S. Senate seat pre- Hills Democrat, held up a
CHANDLER viously held by U.S. Attor- sign that said “#NoMoore”
Associated Press ney General Jeff Sessions. outside the library where
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) “That’s not a coincidence. Moore spoke.
— A defiant Roy Moore on It’s an intentional act “Please tell the people of
Saturday insisted the alle- to stop the campaign,” America that some of us
gations of sexual miscon- Moore said. are so embarrassed,” said
duct decades ago were But a lawyer for one of the Knowles.
false and voters in Ala- women quoted in the Post Moore also said there
bama would “see through report said the women would be new “revela-
this charade.” whom Moore victimized tions” in connection with
The Republican Senate were young teenagers the newspaper report that
candidate showed no while he was a powerful brought allegations of sex-
signs of backing down prosecutor. ual misconduct to light.
despite the demand of a “They likely feared that he “In the next few days there
growing number of Wash- would publicly persecute will be revelations about
ington Republicans for him Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy them ... precisely as he the motivations and the
to step aside. Moore speaks at the Vestavia Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. has done this week,” At- content of this article that
Moore made his first public 11, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. torney Paula Cobia said in will be brought to the pub-
appearance on Saturday Associated Press an email to The Associated lic,” he said.
since The Washington Post Moore’s speech in Vestavia Moore denied claims in Press. “We fully expect the peo-
on Thursday published in- Hills on Saturday was his first the story that he had pro- Jones, speaking at an ple of Alabama to see
terviews with four women public appearance since vided beer and wine to event Saturday in Tusca- through this charade.”
who said Moore had tried the report, although he women too young to buy loosa, said Moore needed A spokesman for Moore
to have sexual or roman- had also denied the story it themselves, or that he’d to do more to address the declined to provide further
tic relationships with them Friday to conservative ra- had sexual contact with a allegations. information about what in-
decades ago - when dio host Sean Hannity. 14-year-old girl. “These are very serious al- formation those revelations
they were teenagers and Moore used the occasion “I have not provided alco- legations that he needs to might contain.
Moore was in his 30s and to accuse the Post of en- holic beverages, beer or significantly try to address,” In the hours following the
an established attorney. gaging in a “desperate at- anything else, to a minor,” Jones said, according to Post report Thursday, some
A wave of national Re- tempt to stop my political Moore said. “I have not the Tuscaloosa News re- Republicans speculated
publican leaders, includ- campaign for United States been guilty of sexual mis- ported. that Alabama Gov. Kay
ing Senate Majority Leader Senate.” conduct with anyone.” Before Moore’s speech, his Ivey would delay the Dec.
Mitch McConnell, called The staunch GOP audience Moore also said it was opponents gathered out- 12 special election.
for Moore to drop out of - which included state Su- “strange” that women side the library, carrying However, Ivey spokesman
the race if the allegations preme Court Justice Glenn would wait 40 years to signs and chanting anti- Josh Pendergrass said Sat-
are true. Murdock and members of make such accusations Moore slogans. urday that Ivey “is not con-
Trump, who is in Asia and Alabama’s Republican Na- shortly before a general A group consisting mostly sidering and has no plans
said he was too busy to tional Committee - gave election. of women gathered to op- to move the special elec-
keep up with the news Moore a standing ovation Moore is running against pose Moore. tion for U.S. Senate.”q
about Moore, referred to when he finished speaking. Democrat Doug Jones to Cheryl Knowles, a Vestavia __
a prior statement given to
reporters that said Trump Pence helps give Vietnam Veterans
believes Moore will “do the Memorial a holiday washing
right thing...” if the allega-
tions are true. By JOAN LOWY hands and posed for pho-
That did not sit well with Associated Press tos with the volunteers in
some Moore supporters. WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice subfreezing temperatures
“I’m really upset at my own President Mike and his wife, just after dawn, declaring:
party for condemning him Karen, joined several doz- “This is a great way to start
so quickly,” said Tom Byars, en volunteers to give the Veterans Day!”
who came to hear Moore Vietnam Veterans Memo- The cleanup was spon-
speak at the Mid-Alabama rial a holiday cleaning. sored by the New Day USA,
Republican Club at a li- Carrying orange buckets a mortgage companies
brary in Vestavia Hills, Ala- with the message “Let’s specializing in loans to vet-
bama, on Saturday. “Even Do This,” the Pences spent erans.The group was joined
with the president, you about 40 minutes Saturday by James Pierce, a Na-
know, he had some trou- wiping down the face of tional Park Service ranger
ble, too, and he’s turned the famous wall on the Na- who lost a leg while serv- Vice President Mike Pence cleans a portion of the wall at the
around and tried to con- tional Mall engraved with ing with the North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, Saturday, Nov.
demn Roy Moore to step the names of fallen soldiers. Army National Guard in 11, 2017 in Washington.
down?” The vice president shook Afghanistan.q Associated Press