Cleetus Maggard posts to Daily Kos under another identity. Here’s my latest Kos diary — nothing at all to do with Virginia politics — but — don’t you just love it when Republicans reveal themselves??
Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty formally announced his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination Monday morning. By midday, his past was catching up with him.
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Reporting by Minneapolis City Pages’ Nick Pinto brought to attention a pardon then-Gov. Pawlenty granted to a sex offender in October 2008, a pardon that is certain to haunt Pawlenty throughout his campaign. Turns out the man Pawlenty pardoned was later arrested again for molesting his daughter more than 250 times in an eight-year span, including six years prior to his pardon.
Jeremy Giefer served 45 days in prison in 1994 after being convicted of statutory rape. However, because he married the then-14-year-old girl and stuck around to father the child they conceived together, he begged the state for an extraordinary pardon, which would no longer require Giefer to report himself as a sex offender.
The board – which included the Minnesota attorney general, the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and then-Governor Pawlenty – voted unanimously to pardon Giefer.
All this came to light in November 2010 when Giefer was again arrested on counts of sex with an underage girl – this time with the daughter he had conceived with Susan before his first rape charge.
According to the complaint filed by his daughter (identified in court documents as C.G.) Griefer would often make her have sex with him or perform oral sex on him as a favor before he would give her permission to do things, and that he put her on birth control when she was 15 years old so that she wouldn’t get pregnant when he raped her without a condom. The abuse started when she was 9 years old.
And that, folks, is the way Republicans work — fire teachers, reward child molesters.
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