1. Welcome! Please take a few seconds to create your free account to post threads, make some friends, remove a few ads while surfing and much more. ClutchFans has been bringing fans together to talk Houston Sports since 1996. Join us!

[NBC News] Teen leading in Kansas race admits blackmail, revenge p*rn

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Aug 16, 2020.

  1. Os Trigonum

    Os Trigonum Member
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    May 2, 2014
    Messages:
    81,667
    Likes Received:
    122,085
    "Aaron Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, holds a five-vote lead over seven-term state Rep. Stan Frownfelter, a 69-year-old small business owner":

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...s-race-admits-blackmail-revenge-p*rn-n1236872

    Teen leading in Kansas race admits blackmail, revenge p*rn
    Aaron Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, holds a five-vote lead over seven-term state Rep. Stan Frownfelter, a 69-year-old small business owner

    Aug. 15, 2020, 5:03 PM EDT / Source: Associated Press
    By The Associated Press

    TOPEKA, Kan. — Democrats are scrambling to deal with the strong possibility that a 19-year-old candidate for a Kansas House seat in Kansas City will unseat a veteran lawmaker despite making incendiary comments on social media and acknowledging abusive behavior online toward girls in middle school.

    Aaron Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, holds a five-vote lead over seven-term state Rep. Stan Frownfelter, a 69-year-old small business owner. Officials in their home of Wyandotte County are scheduled to meet Monday to review provisional ballots and decide whether to count them, potentially altering Coleman's 807-802 lead in voting.

    Coleman is running a liberal platform that includes universal health coverage, eliminating college tuition, defunding the police and legalizing mar1juana. But he received more attention for a social media post suggesting he would “laugh and giggle” if a former GOP state lawmaker died of COVID-19, another post endorsing abortion up to the moment of birth and a third acknowledging that allegations that he engaged in online bullying, blackmail and revenge p*rn were true. He apologized for the comments and said his past behavior targeting several middle-school girls was that of "a sick and troubled” 14-year-old.

    Some Democrats are struggling with the possibility that with no Republican on the ballot in the 37th District this fall, Coleman could sit in the House come January. Frownfelter argues that Coleman's nomination could hurt Democrats' efforts to pick up seats in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
    more at the link

     
    RayRay10 and tinman like this.
  2. Roc Paint

    Roc Paint Member

    Joined:
    Aug 12, 2001
    Messages:
    22,329
    Likes Received:
    12,444
  3. ThatBoyNick

    ThatBoyNick Member

    Joined:
    Dec 8, 2011
    Messages:
    31,459
    Likes Received:
    49,323
    Gotta do what you got to do.

    EDIT, nevermind. I thought he was doing it to his opponent, that would have been a much funnier story.
     
    RayRay10 and Ubiquitin like this.
  4. Invisible Fan

    Invisible Fan Member

    Joined:
    Dec 5, 2001
    Messages:
    45,954
    Likes Received:
    28,051
    That’s a cancelin.
     
    Two Sandwiches and RayRay10 like this.
  5. jiggyfly

    jiggyfly Member

    Joined:
    Jul 2, 2015
    Messages:
    21,011
    Likes Received:
    16,856
    Something tells me there is more despicable behavior with this guy, he should be removed whatever the consequences.
     
    RayRay10 and King1 like this.
  6. Astrodome

    Astrodome Member

    Joined:
    Apr 23, 2015
    Messages:
    13,057
    Likes Received:
    15,041
    Similar to "wrong trump" trending on Twitter after his brother died, these liberals will never find a low they won't stoop to.
     
    cml750 likes this.
  7. J.R.

    J.R. Member

    Joined:
    Jun 30, 2008
    Messages:
    114,379
    Likes Received:
    177,383
    [​IMG]

    He’s likely on his way to becoming the newest state representative from Kansas City, Kansas. But 19-year-old Aaron Coleman recently admitted to “bullying, revenge p*rn, and blackmail” of multiple girls while in middle school.

    One young woman who says she was among his victims says she later attempted suicide.

    Now, Coleman’s shocking, though tenuous, five-vote win in the Aug. 4 Democratic primary has left the young women who say they were victimized by him feeling abused all over again, one advocate says.

    With no Republican on the ballot in November, Coleman seems assured to be sworn in as a legislator in January, pending the certification of the primary results on Aug. 17. Coleman’s apparent victory over an incumbent state representative has brought national and international attention and the condemnation of fellow Democrats.

    “I was just in disbelief that another man that doesn’t respect women is in power,” said the young woman, now 18, who says she attempted suicide after Coleman’s persistent verbal abuse in sixth grade. Having come to Coleman’s attention by dating a friend of his, the young woman recalls Coleman “calling me fat, telling me to kill myself, like I’m never going to find anyone, like I’m worthless, just downgrading me every day.

    “I tried to end my life,” she said.

    “F—- you you f——- ratchet fat s—-,” she says he told her in a message back then. “F—- off whale. Go on a diet and get some braces.”

    Another young woman has posted on social media, and has repeated to The Star, that Coleman extorted her in middle school five years ago over an explicit photo of her.

    “He got one of my nudes and blackmailed me with it and told me if I didn’t send him more he would (send) it to all of my friends and family,” she wrote. “And when I didn’t send him more, he sent it to everyone I knew. I don’t know how he got the picture. All I know is he’s an awful person and he should not be allowed to run for anything.”

    A third young woman posted that Coleman “harassed me for months, it got so bad that he found out my family’s home phone and wouldn’t stop calling it until we picked up.”

    Coleman now says he is sorry.

    “I made serious mistakes in middle school and I deeply regret and apologize for them. I’ve grown up a great deal since then,” Coleman told The Star Editorial Board Tuesday in a statement.

    The Aaron Coleman for Kansas Facebook page more specifically addressed his past misdeeds in a June 17 post, saying, “The charges include: bullying, revenge p*rn, and blackmail — I just want to make clear all these allegations are both true and occurred only digitally. I denounce these actions and they are the actions of a sick and troubled 14-yo boy.”

    The Facebook post continues, describing trauma that he says he experienced during his childhood and saying that he is now disgusted by his past actions.

    But five years later, has the presumptive lawmaker fully left that abusive boy behind? It certainly appears not. Coleman told one Republican during the campaign that he’d “laugh and giggle when you get COVID and die.” And when his primary opponent, state Rep. Stan Frownfelter, took note on social media of Coleman’s past abuse of girls — supporting the women while disavowing any involvement in telling their stories — Frownfelter says Coleman threatened to retaliate with unspecified allegations against him. None ever came.

    Coleman addressed that incident in a statement to The Star Editorial Board saying, “I had, to that point, run an issue-focused campaign and was simply making clear that if Mr. Frownfelter’s campaign was going to run personal attacks then his conduct as a legislator would also be fair game.”

    Frownfelter campaign manager Brandie Armstrong says she felt harassed by Coleman during the campaign, including during a visit to her home, and that a friend of hers recommended getting a restraining order, which she did not do.

    “I was afraid of what he might do in regards to the campaign. I was really concerned,” she said.

    Local Democratic political activist Faith Rivera was furious when she learned of Coleman’s abuse of girls and took it upon herself to advocate for those alleged victims who have come forward.

    “If that had happened to my daughter, Wyandotte County would’ve shook. The city would have been in shambles,” she says. “These victims are not supported enough.”

    Further indicating a failure to grasp the gravity of his past actions, Coleman recently and callously wrote a relative of the young woman who attempted suicide, saying, “I’ve moved on. They call the past the past for a reason, because that’s where you are supposed to leave things. At this point you shouldn’t move on for me, you should move on for yourself.”

    “How can you mansplain to your victim ‘Get over it’? That’s ridiculous,” Rivera says. “It’s not something that’s ever going to go away for them. You can’t just apologize that away. It’s always going to be there for these girls.” Coleman’s apparent victory, she adds, “is another form of abuse to them.”

    For the young woman who says she attempted suicide, Coleman’s election win has left her with fresh wounds.

    “I feel good about speaking my truth, but I’m still very upset because he’s going to have some form of power. And I don’t think he has a right to have any kind of power.

    ”I don’t know why he’s not being held accountable,” she says.

    Coleman may now be the only one who can hold himself to account. He should do the right thing and withdraw his name from the nomination — and apologize anew for the added insult of his undeserved brush with power.

    https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article244930027.html
     
    RayRay10 and Invisible Fan like this.
  8. Roc Paint

    Roc Paint Member

    Joined:
    Aug 12, 2001
    Messages:
    22,329
    Likes Received:
    12,444
    It’s sickening to tell you the truth
     
    cml750 likes this.
  9. KingCheetah

    KingCheetah Atomic Playboy
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Jun 3, 2002
    Messages:
    59,079
    Likes Received:
    52,748
    Russian GRU and their bot farms started the trend to get you people riled up and it's working like a charm.
     
  10. Roc Paint

    Roc Paint Member

    Joined:
    Aug 12, 2001
    Messages:
    22,329
    Likes Received:
    12,444
    What about the clutch fan bots around here
     
    cml750 likes this.
  11. Ubiquitin

    Ubiquitin Member
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Jul 7, 2001
    Messages:
    19,568
    Likes Received:
    14,580
    You’re a turd.
     
    RayRay10 and Andre0087 like this.
  12. jiggyfly

    jiggyfly Member

    Joined:
    Jul 2, 2015
    Messages:
    21,011
    Likes Received:
    16,856
    Name one poster that pushed that hashtag.
     
    RayRay10 likes this.
  13. gifford1967

    gifford1967 Member
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Feb 4, 2003
    Messages:
    8,308
    Likes Received:
    4,655
    snowflake
     
    RayRay10 and Andre0087 like this.
  14. Roc Paint

    Roc Paint Member

    Joined:
    Aug 12, 2001
    Messages:
    22,329
    Likes Received:
    12,444
    I’m white but I’m not a flake
     
  15. Roc Paint

    Roc Paint Member

    Joined:
    Aug 12, 2001
    Messages:
    22,329
    Likes Received:
    12,444
    If I’m a snowflake then you are a Wheatie
     
  16. Roc Paint

    Roc Paint Member

    Joined:
    Aug 12, 2001
    Messages:
    22,329
    Likes Received:
    12,444
    Consider it coined
     
  17. Invisible Fan

    Invisible Fan Member

    Joined:
    Dec 5, 2001
    Messages:
    45,954
    Likes Received:
    28,051
    He won by five votes. Tells you how hotly contested these primaries are...
     
    RayRay10 and Andre0087 like this.
  18. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

    Joined:
    May 15, 2000
    Messages:
    28,028
    Likes Received:
    13,051
  19. Invisible Fan

    Invisible Fan Member

    Joined:
    Dec 5, 2001
    Messages:
    45,954
    Likes Received:
    28,051
    RayRay10 likes this.
  20. sirbaihu

    sirbaihu Member

    Joined:
    Nov 2, 2006
    Messages:
    8,517
    Likes Received:
    2,851
    100% guarantee the Democrats will "Bernie" this guy. He won't win.
     

Share This Page