Text messages reveal 'pro-life' Republican congressman urged his mistress to have an abortion
Rep. Tim Murphy (PA-18), one the most anti-choice Republicans of them all, had an extramarital affair and apparently urged his mistress to get an abortion after she told him she might be pregnant. The Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh got their hands on the text message exchange, where Murphy apologizes for his hypocritical public stances on abortion:
"And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options," Shannon Edwards, a forensic psychologist in Pittsburgh with whom the congressman admitted last month to having a relationship, wrote to Mr. Murphy on Jan. 25, in the midst of an unfounded pregnancy scare.
A text from Mr. Murphy’s cell phone number that same day in response says, "I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will."
The congressman has been lauded by the Family Research Council, for his stance on abortion, as well as for family values, generally. He also has been endorsed by LifePAC, which opposes abortion rights, and is a member of the House Pro-Life Caucus, an affiliation that is often cited by his office.
Another day, another hypocritical, ‘family values’ Republican who can’t live up to his own moral code.
That isn’t the only bombshell in the Post-Gazette ’s rundown of Rep. Murphy’s bad conduct. His chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk, fired off an incredible 6-page memo (you can read it in full here ) detailing how horrible his behavior is to his staff, which has seen 100% turnover.
There has been an ongoing and ever more pronounced pattern of sustained inappropriate behavior and engagement from the Congressman to and with staff impacting office operations in many ways: inability to hire and retain competent staff, overwhelming amount of redundant work products which you constantly reject, to name just a few. I have both witnessed and been exposed to hostile, erratic, unstable, angry, aggressive and abusive behavior from the Congressman.
She also detailed his abusive behavior during a visit to his home district in June:
“You were storming around as we walked in, and as we sat down for prep — having just arrived literally moments ago — you started in on the [legislative director] and verbally abused him, harassed him, chastised him and criticized all his work products. You called many of the work products that he literally gave up his weekend to produce as ‘useless.’ You pushed other documents off the table onto the floor because they weren't what you wanted. Then you got angry and demanded we find the documents that you had just thrown on the ground.”
The memo also referenced a town hall meeting Mr. Murphy held on June 5 and said that Mr. Murphy drove the car with staff to events later that day. As he drove in a torrential downpour, the memo says, his driving was "dangerous and erratic," while he read his iPad, played YouTube videos and texted.
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I guess by the same token the congressman and Shannon Edwards wouldn't have any business condemning infidelity either.
The question wasn't about the incident so stop trying to move the goalposts. the question was about the congressman's hypocritical stance on abortion. The fact that a supposed conservative Christian is also a philandering slime bag is beyond the point.
Conservatives will continue to vote for him instead of admitting that they were lied to and demand his resignation.
Not this AGAIN:
(CNN) – An anti-abortion Republican congressman from Tennessee, first elected in 2010 with support from tea party activists, testified at divorce proceedings in 2001 that he and his wife mutually agreed on her getting two abortions, according to court transcripts released to CNN Friday.
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, who won re-election last Tuesday by more than ten points, also admitted in the court documents to having sex with some of his patients and colleagues when he was a practicing physician, and to prescribing one of those patients painkiller medications.
DesJarlais is a staunch anti-abortion conservative, with a history of votes in the House of Representatives that would restrict a woman's right to choose an abortion. His campaign website says "All life should be cherished and protected. We are pro-life."
The congressman changed the goal posts when his career was at stake...
I would like to think that his career in Congress is effectively over.
SOP for these lying hypocrites. <del>No doubt he will vote for the 20 week ban that's coming up in the House.</del> Of course the asshole voted for it: