This is Eric Bodenweiser, Republican candidate for the Delaware State Senate and anti-gay member of the Delaware Family Policy Council. Bodenweiser, 53, was viewed as unbeatable in the race against his Democratic challenger right up to the time the family values candidate was arrested for allegedly having unlawful sex acts with a 13-year-old boy.
Bodenweiser is facing 113 felony sex charges, including 39 counts of unlawful sexual intercourse — first-degree and 74 counts of unlawful sexual contact — second-degree. The boy who allegedly was sexually abused by Bodenweiser between Oct. 1, 1987 and Aug. 31, 1990 when he was between the ages of 10 and 13. The victim is now in his 30s.
Bodenweiser was endorsed in his State Senate race by Christine O’Donnell, the 2010 Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Delaware. O’Donnell, who was ridiculed for once saying that she dabbled in witchcraft, now has found someone more controversial than herself. O’Donnell came to the defense of Bodenweiser:
CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: That’s why these sort of, charges are so, are so, potent as political weapons because they put a seed of doubt in someone’s mind. If you do it as an October surprise there’s not enough time between when they throw the bomb on election day for the truth to really emerge and, um, it’s just, it’s tacky and it’s what happened to our political system.
Bodenweiser had won an upset against the incumbent Republican with the help of the Tea Party. O’Donnell cites his victory as an encouragement for her to run again with the resurgence of conservative values and agreed to campaign for him. In what could be a much repeated statement by Bodenweiser at the time, the candidate stated “I asked Christine to speak at my fundraiser because I consider her a friend and we hold the same principles and values. She has been the top vote getter in Sussex County over the past four years. Her record in Sussex County proves it. Hopefully, some of her ability to win votes will rub off on me.”
Bodenweiser pledged that, when he took office, he would “weed out the liberals” and expose them by introducing ultraconservative legislation.
Bodenweiser helped run his family’s business Bodie’s Dairy Markets, a chain of six local convenience stores and Laundromats. The chain was sold in 2001. His campaign website touted how he was an active middle school mentor. According to news reports, Bodenweiser was a mentor for children at Georgetown Middle School and North Georgetown Elementary School.
If convicted, such access to children could be cited to increase sentencing for Bodenweister. Given the repeated alleged abuse over a long period of time, he would be looking at a considerable sentence — enough to put him behind bars for the rest of his life on the upper end of the scale — though O’Donnell might view that as a bit “tacky.”
Source: Washington Blade
Say . . . are there two clowns on this thread who still think their opinions of me matter to anyone other than themselves? Why that’s adorable! You’re just like two chihuahuas barking to hear yourselves bark.
Woof, woof!
GaLiberal,
Are you familiar with the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal? Many victims didn’t come forward with their stories until many years–even decades–after their sexual abuse by priests occurred.
idealist707
1, November 1, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Woosty,
Speaking of politics smelling now. where has your nose been all these years. You’re too young for Joe McCarthy, but Nixon must have titillated your nostrils.
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baking cookies and damn proud of it………
I just got back from voting….standing in line for an hour…..people had come by 2 and 3 days ago but left as there was no parking. I took the bus….it was 25min late going to……45 min late coming home……I’m sure glad I don’t live in a 3rd world Country…… 😉 but the comments in the queue were worth the wait!
Remember consensual sex is evil..rape is not that bad and whatever results is God’s will.
While I cant stand these self-righteous repubs it is suspecious that these charges would come out now. I mean why wait until he is a 30 yo man. Why not when he was 20 or 25? And isnt there a statue of limitations? Or can anyone just make a bare charge and you wind up in jail? Its such a viseral reaction when anyone is arrested and charged as a child molester. Even if hes not guilty he’ll never be allowed around children. Again Im not defending this tool. If hes guilty put him in prison for a long time. But if hes not its ruined his personal life and his political career.
Excellent, Blouise.
Gene,
Heard from Bob Esq!
Swarthmore Mom,
Perhaps Nick is right. Certainly not in the numbers of “admirers” here. But sitting at the top of the pyramid must feel lonely at times. As for compassion for individuals, honestly never seen any. Only for the mass of us, the aggregate mistreated by the system—and that he is very good at.
Watch the hackles rise when another one like Nick pops up. Piss at the bottom of the pyramid, hound dog. Up here is mine.
But your one liners are appreciated by both Nick and I.
Demonstration of a warm heart. Hope you don’t get burnt for them.
nick, I really don’t think you are right about that.
ID, Do you think that balloon will just pop on its own someday?. As I’ve said previously, no real world experience and now as I’ve come to see, no social skills. A lonely, angry man. This is his world.
What Woostey said.
NickS,
Center on the target. It is always substantive when you pinprick a ballooning ego.
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Woosty,
Speaking of politics smelling now. where has your nose been all these years. You’re too young for Joe McCarthy, but Nixon must have titillated your nostrils.
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39 counts. The kid must have been keeping a diary. And Mom was just doing a nostalgia trip through some old storage boxes. I would guess she has helped him through some troubles over the years, and thought that this might help him. Just speculating, like most here.
It is now I go medieval and muslim, head on the block.
And the now 20 year older kid gets first taste of the blood running. May it help him.
Swarthmore mom
1, November 1, 2012 at 12:17 pm
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yes, sometimes people who have been abused suffer PTSD and/or the sort of denial that is not conscious but designed to protect the psyche…..so the point of resolution does not happen till years later…..my objection is to the ‘running for office’ part. That seems, more and more, to be a necessary part of the investigatory and prosecutorial process. That does seem to make any manner of enforcement of the laws or application of justice to be a rather private affair that is funded by public $$$$$$.
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Elaine, I wasn’t commenting here when the Sandusky case exploded. We would have been sympatico on that. Here’s my prediction regarding the coverup, higher ups..no jail time. The powerful protect their own even though the rape of those boys are on their heads. Our justice system is a process, w/ the outcomes often not even resembling justice.
Another ‘forking’ Christian PERVERT
Off Topic:
Graham Spanier Charged: Ex-Penn State President Facing Perjury Charge In Jerry Sandusky Case
By MARK SCOLFORO 11/01/12
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/graham-spanier-charged-penn-state-sandusky_n_2057723.html
Excerpt:
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former Penn State President Graham B. Spanier was charged Thursday with hushing up child molestation allegations against Jerry Sandusky, making him the third school official to be accused of crimes in the alleged cover-up.
Prosecutors also added counts against the two former underlings, Timothy M. Curley and Gary C. Schultz, who were already charged with lying to the grand jury that investigated the former Penn State assistant football coach.
Spanier was charged with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children and conspiracy. Curley and Schultz face new charges of endangering the welfare of children, obstruction and conspiracy.
I see you still predictably and tediously have nothing substantive to add to the conversation, nick. Carry on.
Bron: “who is vetting these people?”
Vetting? This sort of behaviour is *why* most pigs get hired, a willingness to abuse authority and intimidate the populace.