The challenger of one of our state reps who's been strongly supported because he's awesome just posted some heinous, heinous bull on his FB page.
The rep was divorced back in the late 1980's. His ex-wife was not a happy person. In the course of events, she made claims that he sexually abused their daughter (who was living with her) and supposedly she had repressed memories come out in camp, with a therapist, type of thing.
"I hate to do this but we should know this kind of thing about the people we elect. I'm sorry if it hurts his victims again." The rep's son is a police officer and his daughter works for a local government. She's asked that he pull the posts, but instead he's posting second and third and fourth FB posts. He's publishing police reports that were made and "hidden for twenty years" and the wife's story and a statement the daughter signed when she was 14 that her mother altered/added to after they were signed. He even made a website for all of this.
The claims were investigated and found to be unsubstantiated. It's galling and Rs are going to his page and being outraged and "thank you for posting. We need to know this stuff!"
(Sorry it's rambling and disjointed. I'm pissed because I know this guy personally. Former sheriff and an awesome guy from all I've seen. And his daughter is adamant that it never happened and has repeatedly requested that they take it down.)