This Arizona Republican thought his sexual harassment scandal could help him win. It didn’t.

[phands]

Schadenfreude time....again...

Don Shooter thought allegations of sexual harassment against him might work in his favor, even if they led to his ouster from Arizona’s state Legislature. So he ran for state Senate in an effort to “MAKE A LIBERALS [sic] HEAD EXPLODE," as one of his campaign billboards explained.
Well, his efforts just failed.
Shooter was voted out of office 56-3 in February after numerous women accused him of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. He was considered the first lawmaker to be pushed out of office as a result of the #MeToo movement. But in May, he filed paperwork to run for state Senate — and tried to use his expulsion from the state Legislature to his benefit, saying he had merely annoyed people.

In Tuesday night's Republican primary, Shooter placed last among the three-person pool gunning for a state Senate seat in Arizona’s Legislative District 13, according to the Arizona Republic. Sine Kerr, the female dairy farmer and incumbent, easily bested him with 49 percent of the vote.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article...ccused-of-sexual-harassment-lost-to-sine-kerr

 

[Underseer]

Wow, that's surprising.

I would have thought that a history of sexual harassment would make him more popular with Republican voters.

 

[repoman]

Brent Backus 30.45 percent

Sine Kerr 49.53 percent

Don Shooter 20.01 percent

 

[Worldtraveller]

Brent Backus 30.45 percent

Sine Kerr 49.53 percent

Don Shooter 20.01 percent

That's a disturbingly high percent, even for AZ. Ah, that's the SW part of Maricopa and part of Yuma county. Imagine the backwoods swamps of Alabama. You know, the uncivilized parts of the the already backasswards state, not that most of Maricopa isn't a cesspool of shitty people by itself.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

That's a disturbingly high percent, even for AZ. Ah, that's the SW part of Maricopa and part of Yuma county. Imagine the backwoods swamps of Alabama. You know, the uncivilized parts of the the already backasswards state, not that most of Maricopa isn't a cesspool of shitty people by itself.

I'm actually surprised that it's so low and this strategy didn't work out better for him.

I guess one of the other candidates ran an ad of themselves shooting aborted fetuses out of an air cannon into a target painted with Hillary Clinton's head or the like.

 

[ronburgundy]

To be clear, he probably would have won in the general election against any Dem. He lost in the primary to a Republican, who has a 93% NRA rating and in her first months in office co-sponsored a bill to further harass abortion seekers by forcing doctors to invade their privacy.

IOW, the result just means that AZ republicans don't love sexual harassment quite as much as they love violating people's medical rights, and helping the NRA profit off of murder weapons.

 

[RavenSky]

Wow, that's surprising.

I would have thought that a history of sexual harassment would make him more popular with Republican voters.

That is, apparently, what he thought, too.

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To be clear, he probably would have won in the general election against any Dem. He lost in the primary to a Republican, who has a 93% NRA rating and in her first months in office co-sponsored a bill to further harass abortion seekers by forcing doctors to invade their privacy.

IOW, the result just means that AZ republicans don't love sexual harassment quite as much as they love violating people's medical rights, and helping the NRA profit off of murder weapons.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I think the claim of being a victim of feminism makes him very popular. However, Republicans are scared right now and don't want to lose in a general election. So, it is entirely plausible they didn't vote for him out of fear of losing later.