S House candidate Bouchard says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18
By: Victoria Eavis
Why doesn't the GOP call these people out instead of electing them?
Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Bouchard, Larry Craig, etc...
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U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard had a relationship with and impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, he told the Star-Tribune late Thursday, hours after he disclosed the relationship in a Facebook Live video to his supporters.
Bouchard, who did not specify the girl's age in the video, said he went public with the information to get ahead of the story after learning that people were investigating it in opposition to his candidacy. A Wyoming state senator since 2017, Bouchard has risen in prominence since announcing he would challenge Rep. Liz Cheney following her vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump.
"So, bottom line, it's a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant," he said in the Facebook Live video. "You've heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story."
Bouchard told the Star-Tribune he married the girl when she was 15 and he was 19. At the time, they were both living in Florida.
The two were legally able to get married at the time becauseFlorida law statedthat people could marry at any age with a judge's approval if a pregnancy was involved and a parent consented. They got divorced approximately three years later.
"A lot of pressure. Pressure to abort a baby. I got to tell you. I wasn't going to do it, and neither was she," he said. "And there was pressure to have her banished from their family. Just pressure. Pressure to go hide somewhere. And the only thing I could see as the right thing to do was to get married and take care of him."
Bouchard’s ex-wife killed herself when she was 20, he said. Online records list a woman with her name as being buried at a Jacksonville, Florida, cemetery in 1990. The Star-Tribune is choosing not to identify her.
“She had problems in another relationship. Her dad had committed suicide,” Bouchard said in the video.
After his ex-wife died, Bouchard said he continued to raise the couple's son, whom he briefly references in the video.
“Sadly, he's made some wrong choices in his life," he said. "He's almost become my estranged son. Some of the things that he's got going on his life, I certainly don't approve of them. But I'm not going to abandon him. I still love him. Just like when he was born.”
Going public
In the 13-minute video, Bouchard looks straight ahead as he rails against "dirty politics," the media and "the establishment swamp." He encouraged his supporters to share the video, saying he wanted "everyone to know."
"I don't want to hide anything," he told the Star-Tribune in a nearly hour-long phone call after the video was published. "I don't want people drug into this. This is just crazy over politics."
Bouchard said he decided to post a video to get ahead of a story about his previous marriage that he anticipates will be published sometime soon. In the video, Bouchard claims that an unnamed reporter and a “political opposition research company” were driving the effort together.
“We know the company that started this investigation. It's a political opposition research company. We know who they are and then it turned into a U.K. media reporter, is who's called me,” he said.
Bouchard said he did not respond to the media outlet.
"This is really a message about how dirty politics is," said Bouchard, one of Wyoming's most prominent gun rights advocates. "They'll stop at nothing, man, when you get in the lead and when you're somebody that can't be controlled, you're somebody who works for the people. They'll come after you. That's why good people don't run for office."
Around 11 a.m. Mountain Time Friday, U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail publishedits storyabout the pregnancy. It cited "an unnamed Republican operative" who is "in the Donald Trump faction of the party."
"We want this to be known about him because we need to clean the field," the operative is quoted as saying. "Five other candidates in the primary are going to split the vote in a small place like Wyoming, and Cheney is going to waltz in again."
Bouchard announced that he would challenge Cheney in the 2022 Republican primary in January, one week after the congresswoman voted to impeach Trump on charges he incited the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Bouchard was the first person to announce a run against Cheney but has since been joined by seven others.
His name recognition quickly grew, buoyed in part by conservative vitriol against Cheney, who was viewed by many in Wyoming as betraying Trump and the voters who supported him. Bouchard began appearing on conservative television news programs, and his campaign raised $334,000 by the end of March, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Trump said he would soon endorse a candidate to run against Cheney but has yet to do so.
In his Twitter post linking to the video, Bouchard concluded: ”I won't back down, Swamp! @RepLizCheney Bring it!” And in Thursday's video, he said the people digging up the information only "care about ... helping people like Liz Cheney win." But in his conversation with the Star-Tribune, Bouchard said he believes Cheney was not involved in the attempts to publicize the story, which a Cheney spokesperson echoed early Friday.
"The Cheney campaign had no involvement in this at all," Jeremy Adler said.
Bouchard said the disclosure about his past relationship and the pregnancy wouldn't stop him from seeking office.
“Bring it on. I'm going to stay in this race," he said. "We're going to continue to raise money because my record stands on its own.”
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So a self admitted pedophile says he is going to stay in the race.. Why am I not shocked.
An 18 year-old having sex with a 14 year-old is not a pedophile. The victim in pedophilia is prepubescent. Not 14. Also, the perpetrator generally needs to be at least 5 years older than the victim. Teenagers who have been through puberty are not engaging in pedophilia.
That's not quite true. An 18 year old can be convicted of statutory rape from having sex with a 14 year old. I wouldn't call it pedophilia, either, since an 18 year boy is about the same maturity as a 14 year old girl
Then I what I said is true, so don’t say it’s not. Pedophilia has a definition and we shouldn’t just go around using it to label everything we might disapprove of.
And as far as that goes, I very much doubt that anyone cares about an 18 year-old having sex with a 14 year-old, except for political reasons.
Ok, what you said is true.
Pffft. No need to be so prissy about it.
Ya know what, you're right, he's a fine representative of the GOP. [eye roll]
I am not going to be lured into a "DBY"!
("Derail By Semantics").
Sheesh-- you shoulda engaged in a "Derail By "Whattaboudism"-- that's much more "politically Correct" here!
But now I'm curious-- why do you feel it to be so important to defend a Pedophile?
(Surely you coulda found some more positive to say..????
Why are you bringing up a controversial thing like "Truth"?
(Don't you realize by doing so you'll only confiue him???
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And as far as that goes, I very much doubt that anyone cares about an 18 year-old having sex with a 14 year-old,
Perhaps you meant to say "anyone but Tacos?
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If anyone, particularly an "Anyone" such as yourself, really didn't care...than certainly that Anyone wouldn't start commenting on the matter... n'est-ce pas?
And yet here you are. Replying to a comment that wasn’t even directed at you. I guess you don’t have much control over what you get lured into.
Yeah, you hear that a lot from people who don’t like to face the actual definitions of words.
I haven’t, so your question presumes a lie.
I didn’t post the seed. I commented on it. My comment is that it’s not the scandal people are trying to make it out to be. I’m sorry this obvious thing had to be explained.
What happened to the party of "traditional Christian American Values"?
Those are their 'traditional christian american 'values'
incest and pedophilia are traditional xtian american values...
I think 16 is reasonable as far as age of consent goes. Any younger than that, no.
I thought it was reasonable, when I was 16.
Same here.
Good question-- I really don't know.
But if I had to guess...my guess would be that its exactly the same thing that happened to so-called "The Party of Law and Order" during the violent, treasonous insurgent attack on the Capitol?
His version of ''family values'' I guess.
The sad thing is that people will vote for him over Liz Cheney.
You’re kidding. I can’t believe any serious people actually care about a thing like this.
He's a pedophile. Are you seriously ok with pedophiles in congress?
No, he isn’t. Learn what pedophilia actually is before you start accusing people of it - or of being ok with it.
Do you know what a pedophile is?
He was 18, she was 14... Adult having sex with a minor. If you want to split hairs on definition, fine. He is a sick fuck that belongs in prison..
Better?
please enlighten us with your expertise.
Fuck no, then I would have to spend half the day explaining what I wrote.
I'll just let others make wild guesses and put words in my mouth!
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You think being specific about things like serious sex crimes is “splitting hairs?” We’re talking about two people, one the age of a high school senior and the other of a high school freshman. It’s super common for people those ages to have a relationship, but you want to act like it’s some kind of sick, twisted perversion.
I find it absurdly hypocritical when we hear pearl-clutching shock from sanctimonious, puritanical adults (not saying that’s you) who want to pretend they were never teenagers with ordinary teenage sex drives. “I would never!” they declare, but the truth is, they totally would.
Even being accused of sex crimes - much less convicted of minor ones like we see here - can ruin lives (which is of course the point with this story). With the hysteria over this kind of thing, we can see ordinary teenage behavior characterized as evil and then used to brand a good person as a predator, to be feared and ostracized forever through registration.
Meanwhile, it’s often unacceptable to go after other politicians for things they said or did as actual, grown professional people. Ten or 20 years ago is too distant in the past for those people, but here, teenage sex from 40 years ago is worthy of our most judgy scrutiny. It’s ridiculous.
Also,I notice no one wants to give him praise for doing the right thing and staying with this girl and marrying her.
Done as soon as I responded!
There isn't enough room with both of your feet there.
Oh yeah, why the fuck would I care that he committed statutory rape? Although it's so typical of the majority of alleged 'conservatives' and republicans.
Most jurisdictions give a lot of weight to the difference in age and an 18 year-old having sex with a 14 year-old is not generally considered very serious.
If you say so
It's still statutory rape. I consider a 14 year old a child. An 18 year old is a legal adult.
Barely. It’s a variety of it that no one really cares about unless they’re playing gotcha games with politics.
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You’re wrong, but I don’t see what that has to do with anything.
I just think it is weird. When I was 18 I wouldn't have given a 14 year old a second glance.
She was probably a little old for Blanchard's tastes. I think it's creepy and perverse.
Having known you for a while, your reaction in no way surprises me.
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Your comment is entirely personal.
This pages serves to document prominent republicans (either directly or by association) found guilty of pedophilia.
Event dates on this thread attempt to get as close to the conviction date as possible.
Note, some names on popular lists circulating around the internet have individuals listed that are difficult or impossible to find any reliable sources on. Those people are:
Seems to be a thing, eh?
I posted them all on Twitter but realized that is ephemeral and decided to post them here, too. A post of 310 at once would be TL:DR, so I will post 25 per day until I am done. You won’t find David Vitter, Larry Craig, or even Ted Haggard. Sexual hypocrisy, cheating on spouses, and being gay are not the sort of thing I care about. Consent and being of age to consent is the issue.
Donald Trump is accused of sexual assault by multiple women . His wife said he raped her before she decided to describe it differently He is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl and walking in on teens in the Miss Teen USA pageant . He bragged of walking in on naked women at pageants and of course, of grabbing women “by the pussy.”
Judge Roy Moore is accused of sexual assault and dating underage women .
Rep Jim Jordan is seeking to step into Speaker Ryan’s shoes even though he is accused of ignoring sexual assault of young men while a coach , dismissing it as locker room talk
Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert convicted of sex abuse
Former Cobb County COP Chairman Joseph Russell Dendy - child molesting
So-called "pro-life"/ antigay activist Howard Scott Heldreth was convicted of raping a child
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to molesting his 10-year-old daughter .
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican Speaker of the House in Puerto Rico Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls .
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl .
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child. She was underage. It was rape.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile .
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl .
Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail. ONE MONTH!!!!!
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos .
Republican of the Year Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children . Keep reading, it’s half-way down the page.
Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography. He was sentenced to 15 years.
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child .
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a page. To be fair, Dem Congressman was Gerry Studds was also caught for the same thing. The Congressional Page scandal .
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
GOP Congressman Jim Kolbe - suspected of being too “close” to underage pages .
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his stepdaughter .
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist *Robert Bauman** was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
These are numbers 26 to 50, but I don’t know how to make that happen.
27 Republican legislative aide *Howard L. Brooks** was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
28 Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old babysitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
29 Republican preacher *Stephen White**, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
30 Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl .
31 Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her .
32 Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
33 Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl .
34 Republican politician *Andrew Buhr** was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy .
35 Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 . He committed suicide
36 Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl .
37 Republican County Councilman *Keola Childs** pleaded guilty to molesting a male child .
38 Republican activist, McCain office manager Jeffrey Claude Bartleson, was arrested for molesting the child of a campaign volunteer .
39 NYC councilman, Republican-Queens, Dennis Gallagher - rape
40 Republican Mayoral Candidate and pastor - Rambler was accused of having sex with an underage boy and was convicted of soliciting explicit photos from a swingers' group & using the pics to extort money
41 Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15-year-old girl and served 6-months in prison .
42 Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
43 GOP Sen aide Ryan Loskarn committed suicide after child porn arrest
44 Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
45 Faith and Family Alliance director, Republican strategist, and lobbyist Robin Vanderwall was convicted in of five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. It's at the end or article, after all his illegal lobbying schemes
46 Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter
47 Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison
48 Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr. rape. Dasen has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women
49 Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity
50 Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl .
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You can find the rest of the list here.
Democratic New York Congressman, Anthony Weiner, plead guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor as part of a plea agreement for sexted and sending Twitter DMs to underage girls as young as 15.
Democratic donor, activist, and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is being criminally prosecuted and civilly sued for years of sexual abuse (that was well known “secret” in Hollywood) including underage sexual activities with aspiring female actresses.
Democratic activist and #metoo proponent, Asia Argento, settled a lawsuit for sexual harassment stemming from sexual activities with an underage actor.
Democratic Mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, Gary Becker, was convicted of attempted child seduction, child pornography, and other child sex crimes.
Democratic Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned after multiple accusations of child sexual abuse were levied against him including by family members.
Democratic activist and aid to NYC Mayor De Blasio, Jacob Schwartz was arrested on possession of 3,000+ child pornographic images.
Democratic activist and actor, Russell Simmons, was sued based on an allegation of sexual assault where he coerced an underage model for sex.
Democratic Governor of Oregon, Neil Goldschmidt, after being caught by a newspaper, publicly admitted to having a past sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl after the statute of limitations on the rape charges had expired.
Democratic Illinois Congressman, Mel Reynolds resigned from Congress after he was convicted of statutory rape of a 16-year-old campaign volunteer.
Democratic New York Congressman, Fred Richmond, was arrested in Washington D.C. for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy.
Democratic activist, donor, and director, Roman Polanski, fled the country after pleading guilty to statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. Democrats and Hollywood actors still defend him to this day, including, Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton and Monica Bellucci.
Democratic State Senator from Alaska, George Jacko, was found guilty of sexual harassment of an underage legislative page.
Democratic State Representative candidate for Colorado, Andrew Myers, was convicted for possession of child pornography and enticing children.
Democratic Illinois Congressman, Gus Savage was investigated by the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Ethics for attempting to rape an underage female Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire. The Committee concluded that while the events did occur his apology was sufficient and took no further action.
Democratic activist, donor, and spokesperson for Subway, Jared Fogle, was convicted of distribution and receipt of child pornography and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
Democratic State Department official, Carl Carey, under Hillary Clinton’s state department, was arrested on ten counts of child porn possession.
Democratic Maine Assistant Attorney General, James Cameron, was sentenced to just over 15 years in federal prison for seven counts of child porn possession, receipt and transmission.
Democratic State Department official, Daniel Rosen, under Hillary Clinton’s state department, was arrested and charged with allegedly soliciting sex from a minor over the internet.
Democratic State Department official, James Cafferty, pleaded guilty to one count of transportation of child pornography.
Democratic radio host, Bernie Ward, plead guilty to one count of sending child pornography over the Internet.
Democratic deputy attorney general from California, Raymond Liddy, was arrested for possession of child pornography.
Imagine how broken brained you have to be to think this is a partisan issue. I'm not going to engage with this any further but hopefully this snapshot of Democrats will stop the crazies from trying to make this into just another partisan talking point. Everything isn't Democrats vs Republicans.
Well, I suppose one thing you can say about the "Whaddaboudism" method of attempted derial-- its become pretty obvious what the perpetrator of that ploy is doing (attempting a derail).
Anyway-- if your doing to try to derail the conversation-- why not try some less boring.
And more creative?
For example-- why not post some links to how President Calvin Coolidge cheated.
Or...Was President Taft actually a Pedophile?
(Curious minds want to know!!!)
- if your doing to try to derail the conversation-- why not try some less boring.
Your reaction no way surprises me. You bypass a poster obsessively listing Republicans accused of sex crimes (and give it a thumbs up no less) to attack the person pointing out how silly making this a partisan issue is. Just like you obsessviely posted seeds about how the sky was falling every time the market dipped a half point when Trump was President, and stopped doing it when Biden became President. You obviously feel compelled to make sexual abuse a partisan issue. I find that depressingly pathetic.
But partisan hacks gotta hack, so keep doing what you are doing.
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"RANT" = " Random Act of News Talker-ness "
(Guess I'm dating myself ...?)
Locking this likely for the day until I can get a handle on the flags... Something isn't right.