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"Family values" Senate candidate arrested for sex crime
By Brian FairbanksSeptember 1st, 2010, 10:36 amComments (4)
Eric Deaton is a longshot candidate for the United States Senate from Ohio, but that hasn't stopped him from calling yesterday's indictment against him "politically motivated." Of course, even Republicans looking to kick him out of the race to avoid "spoiling" -- that is, throwing the election to the Democrat -- wouldn't become so desperate as to have the area prosecutor charge him with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
But that's how it's played out -- Deaton is accused of having illegal congress (no pun intended) with a 13- to 15-year-old girl during a one year period covering parts of 2006 and 2007. He's charged with a third-degree felony and faces five years in the slammer.
Of course, the Family Values candidate is a married Republican Boy Scout leader (not confirmed by the Scouts) with three children. Obviously, this is all part of the ploy to keep him from becoming Senator and, of course, leader of the free world in two years:
“I think this is politically motivated,” said Deaton, blaming the indictment on his decision to run for political office.
“The powers that be don’t like that,” said Deaton, who said he intends to stay in the race. [Dayton News]
Let's hope he's innocent -- because it's too scary otherwise.
Commentarium (4 Comments)
I don't know the mechanism by which candidates are selected to run for office. It may be different in different states. But I would like to think that somewhere along the line, someone asked Mr Deaton whether he had any questionable incidents in his past. I've been asked something like this every time I've applied for a job for which a security clearance is or might be needed; it would seem that the job of US Senator is one of these. If Mr Deaton chose to ignore or gloss over this incident, too bad for him. But if the Republican power structure took this incident out of context, or blew it ot of proportion, or made it up entirely, then they deserve to lose the race.
Why do you say he's a Republican? He's the Constitution party's candidate
"Of course, the Family Values candidate is a married Republican Boy Scout leader" -- that was the tipoff. I didn't read the linked article. My bad. (Or is it Mr Fairbanks' bad?) Constitution Party? OK, they don't have the infrastructure and backing of the GOP. But you would think someone would have at least minimally vetted him.
It's Mr. Fairbanks' bad. This article is just a bad rewrite of that Dayton News article, except he stuck the word "Republican" in there for absolutely no reason other than to slander the party.