(reposted from last night)
Here we go again...WTF is it with Republicans and Rape???
Roger Rivard, Wisconsin Legislator, Criticized Over 'Some Girls Rape Easy' Remark
A Wisconsin lawmaker faces fresh criticism from his election challenger over comments he made last year about women who "rape easy."
State Rep. Roger Rivard (R-Rice Lake) spoke to the Chetek Alert newspaper in December about a 17-year-old who was charged with assault after having sex with his underage girlfriend on their high school campus. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Rivard said his father had warned him that "some girls rape easy." He explained that meant they'd verbally consent to sex, then later accuse the man of rape.
Rivard, who was endorsed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in August...
Big shocker. Not.
"What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, 'If you're going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.' So the way he said it was, 'Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.'
"So it's been kind of taken out of context."
Y'know, as one commenter put it,
"Is it just me or does it sound even worse placed in context?"
(sigh) And so it goes.
Here's the website for this jackass's opponent, Democrat Stephen Smith.
Meanwhile, remember Lisa Brown, the Michigan State Representative who was muzzled by the state GOP-held legislature for daring to utter the word "vagina" in a floor discussion of reproductive legislation?
Well, as a reminder, she's running for Oakland County Clerk, and could use your support to take out the utterly corrupt GOP incumbent. Just sayin'.
(I know this story is out of Wisconsin, but the Michigan GOP is just as freaked out by lady parts these days...)