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A Politician is Charged with DV
posted by Scott on Monday April 08, @12:08PM
from the domestic-violence dept.
Domestic Violence warble writes "We finally have an example of a Democratic politician that was subjected to DV. He has filed charges against his wife for domestic assault, and he claims that his wife provoked him to slap her by her assault. Clearly, he was a victim of DV. The story can be found here. I will be interested to have you guys help me learn if this State (Maryland) has primary aggressor laws. It will also be interesting to learn if this four-term Democrat voted in favor of those laws. I am wondering if we should make a lot of noise over this event. What do you think? Also of note is that the Legislative Woman’s Caucus is affording him special treatment by failing to condemn him directly as they would a male in the general public."

Source: The Baltimore Sun [newspaper]

Title: Lawmaker accused of hitting wife files charges

Author: Tim Craig

Date: April 4, 2002

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Selling out. (Score:1)
by nazgul on Monday April 08, @12:32PM EST (#1)
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It should be noted that were this fellow a Republican, he would be getting crucified by both the media and NOW already. I don't vote at all, so I don't have any Republican loyalties at work. But it goes a long way toward explaining in what way feminism is both entrenched in and sold out to the party system in America and elsewhere. tsk, tsk...
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more stories of Dembrow (Score:1)
by Tom on Monday April 08, @07:00PM EST (#4)
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Here's a Washington Post article from 4-04 that goes into a bit more detail about the Dembrow incident. Here is an editorial and here is an older article. Notice the next to the last paragraph where they question his voting history.

It looks like the guy will get grilled on this one. It is interesting that no one seems to be asking anything about his claim that the wife hit him first. The editorial basically said who cares?
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Special Treatment (Score:2)
by frank h on Monday April 08, @09:30PM EST (#7)
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To some degree, this guy will get special treatment and not the usual slicing and dicing that most men get when entangled in such a case. And this means, sadly, that he really won't get a taste of how poorly the average male victim of DV is treated by "da guvvamint." On the other hand, it's actually good news that the feminists avoided flaying him, because on the outside chance that someone from the men's movement can actually get to him with some truth, he may actually become more sympathetic. If he had been flayed, he'd be cowering in the corner, intimidated by the electoral power of the women's vote. Here is one man who is a prime candidate for the men's movement to quietly get his attention.

And that's how we have to do this guys: one politician at a time.
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