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Adenoid_Hynkel

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Fri Sep 14, 2018, 12:40 AM Sep 2018

Republicans launch fake "#metoo" group to attack Sherrod Brown

Press materials from state GOP and Renacci backers described it as a "women's rights group."
Group has zero history and site appeared only this week, set up by GOP firm

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A new political website has sprung up, appropriating the "Me Too" movement to attack Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown over allegations stemming from his 1986 divorce.

The website, www.metooohio.com, includes a 60-second video that references court records from Brown's divorce with his then-wife, Larke Recchie, as well as excerpts from the records themselves. The ugly divorce, which included allegations that Brown "bullied" and shoved Recchie, has come up in many of Brown's campaigns, including his 1992 race for Congress and his 2012 re-election campaign to the U.S. Senate. Recchie is now a political supporter of Brown's and has described "angry words" that surrounded their divorce.

The website, anonymously registered earlier this month, has the hallmarks of a "dark money" political group -- in other words, it was designed to obscure who created it. However, there is a trail of digital footprints that tie the site to Majority Strategies, a prominent Republican political firm that has done hundreds of thousands of dollars work for a Super PAC supporting U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, Brown's opponent in the November election, the Renacci campaign and the Ohio Republican Party.

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In a statement distributed by Brown's campaign on Thursday, Recchie called the website "disgusting." Recchie and her current husband are political supporters of Brown, and hosted a high-dollar fundraiser for Brown at their home in the Columbus area last weekend. Recchie and Brown's current wife, former Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz, filmed an ad together in 2006, when Brown was challenging then-Sen. Mike DeWine, anticipating DeWine may raise the issue. But it never came up, so the ad was never released.

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"This isn't the first time someone has gone after my family to score cheap political points," Recchie said in the Thursday statement. "I'm dismayed that Congressman Renacci would do something this shameless, despite the fact that I've already addressed this matter. I was proud to support Sherrod in 2006 and 2012 -- just as I am this time around. Anyone who suggests he is not an honorable man is just wrong. He's a great father to our daughters Emily and Liz and he's a wonderful grandfather to our grandchildren. Disparaging my family for political gain is disgusting, and Congressman Renacci should know better."

https://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2018/09/dark_money_website_revives_all.html

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Renacci, of course, is a big Trump backer, recruited into the race by Donald and happily campigns with him:

"The part of the book that caused the most controversy concerns Trump’s divorce from his first wife, Ivana. Hurt obtained a copy of her sworn divorce deposition, from 1990, in which she stated that, the previous year, her husband had raped her in a fit of rage. In Hurt’s account, Trump was furious that a “scalp reduction” operation he’d undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife’s hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, “with menacing casualness, ‘Does it hurt?’” "


http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/documenting-trumps-abuse-of-women
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Republicans launch fake "#metoo" group to attack Sherrod Brown (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Sep 2018 OP
Thank you, Citizen's United and the Robert's Court. Our once great country needs more Dark Money. Midnight Writer Sep 2018 #1

Midnight Writer

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1. Thank you, Citizen's United and the Robert's Court. Our once great country needs more Dark Money.
Fri Sep 14, 2018, 03:29 AM
Sep 2018

Please read Jane Mayer's book Dark Money, about the decades long movement by billionaires to control our political process. Well worth your time. Spoiler Alert; fascists and Nazi supporters play a key role. (Did you know the Koch Brother's daddy Fred made his fortune processing high octane fuel for Stalin and Hitler's military build up?)

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