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‘Dirty Smears’: Allegations Fly as Charleston Republicans Seek to Hold Seat
Candidate backed by Charleston GOP leaders faces broadsides from Democrats, and an alleged smear campaign from her fellow Republicans…
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Make it a felony to have affairs while holding public office. Categorize it as a religious pro family law which puts our elected officials, as they reap other laws of protection, on the defensive if moral turpitude is found out.
Here’s the mock law.
Hypothetical Framework for the Law
Title: Public Office Moral Integrity Act
Definition:
The law would criminalize extramarital affairs (adultery) by elected or appointed public officials during their term of office.
Adultery could be defined as engaging in consensual sexual relations with someone other than the official’s spouse while married.
Classification:
Felony Status: Classifying adultery as a felony (e.g., a Class E felony, the lowest felony level in many jurisdictions) would impose penalties such as imprisonment (e.g., 1-7 years), fines, and disqualification from holding public office.
Religious Pro-Family Framing: The law could be justified as promoting family values rooted in religious or cultural traditions, emphasizing the sanctity of marriage and the moral example expected of public officials.
Moral Turpitude: The law could define adultery as an act of moral turpitude, a legal concept often tied to conduct that violates community standards of honesty, integrity, or morality. A finding of moral turpitude could trigger additional consequences, such as impeachment, removal from office, or bans on future candidacy.
Enforcement:
Investigation: Allegations could be investigated by an independent ethics commission or law enforcement, with evidence such as communications, financial records, or witness testimony.
Due Process: Officials would have the right to a fair trial, with protections against false accusations or invasions of privacy.
Penalties: Conviction could result in imprisonment, fines, removal from office, and/or permanent disqualification from public service.
Defensive Posture:
The law would place officials under heightened scrutiny, requiring them to maintain personal conduct consistent with their public role. It could deter behavior by making moral failings a legal liability, leveraging “other laws of protection” (e.g., public trust, ethics codes) to hold officials accountable.
The crime of adultery is already in the SCCOLs.
Sadly, from state government on down to local governments, even the judicial system, is full of slime balls.
Even Will does not know just how bad it all really is. And to the government trolls who read Fit’s reports and even the comments, they are fools.
I feel bad for the woman who succumbed to the affair with the human elephant seal.
Oops wrong comment, I meant that scvote guy who just got busted.
The democrat trolls paid by Leslie Skardon to bully, harass, and smear Ms. Begner know that if the voters rationally evaluate the candidates on the relevant issues, they cannot win, and lose their bonuses.
That’s why they feed the lies. These democrats are vile, disgusting people with no values but the accumulation and maintenance of power.
More loony wannabe political antics from our coastal region. Something must be in the water there, LOL.
What’s in your smoke pipe?
I think it is shit from the Myrtle Beach sewer pipes going into the ocean. Politicos and coastal voters drink deeply from it.
No wonder Charleston is so f’d up. Nothing but women in their politics. It is nothing but a gigantic hen party with all decisions based on fluctuating hormones and emotions.