Teen leading in Kansas race admits blackmail, revenge porn

[SheltieLover]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/teen-leading-kansas-race-admits-blackmail-revenge-porn-n1236872

Aaron Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, holds a five-vote lead over seven-term state Rep. Stan Frownfelter, a 69-year-old small business owner.

15, 2020, 4:03 PM CDT / Source: Associated Press
By The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. — Democrats are scrambling to deal with the strong possibility that a 19-year-old candidate for a Kansas House seat in Kansas City will unseat a veteran lawmaker despite making incendiary comments on social media and acknowledging abusive behavior online toward girls in middle school.

Aaron Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, holds a five-vote lead over seven-term state Rep. Stan Frownfelter, a 69-year-old small business owner. Officials in their home of Wyandotte County are scheduled to meet Monday to review provisional ballots and decide whether to count them, potentially altering Coleman's 807-802 lead in voting.

Coleman is running a liberal platform that includes universal health coverage, eliminating college tuition, defunding the police and legalizing marijuana. But he received more attention for a social media post suggesting he would “laugh and giggle” if a former GOP state lawmaker died of COVID-19, another post endorsing abortion up to the moment of birth and a third acknowledging that allegations that he engaged in online bullying, blackmail and revenge porn were true. He apologized for the comments and said his past behavior targeting several middle-school girls was that of "a sick and troubled” 14-year-old.

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Here is my issue

While I understand that 14 yr olds do and say things that are juvenile, if he were a repug, I wouldn't cut his 14 yr old self any slack. So, in order not to be a hypocrite, I cannot in good conscious, give him slack.

[SheltieLover]

3. Me either!

Likely personality disorder.

[Roland99]

4. Almost sounds like a plant

[SheltieLover]

11. He does for sure!

Can dems not denounce him, at least?

[lapucelle]

22. Here's a statement from Kansas Young Democrats

[SheltieLover]

23. Excellent!

TY! I know his behavior is not consistent with Dems, but can Dems not prohibit him from running as a Dem? Doesn't sound like it. Tyvm!

[JI7]

14. It would be different if they were older with a record to show they had

changed . But he doesn't have this and everything shows him to be an asshole.

[SheltieLover]

24. I agree!

Sounds like a repuke with Conduct Disorder which very often evolves into antisocial personality disorder. 😳

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Oh, my. Talk about immature.

Even for a 19 year old.

Aren't some of those things in the past actual crimes that he can be charged with?

[SheltieLover]

6. Perhaps charged as minor?

Not sure.

[Laffy Kat]

5. He sounds immature and he should duck out of the race, IMO.

Gives Democrats a bad name. We all make mistakes, but abusing your female classmates online should come with consequences.

[SheltieLover]

7. I concur!

Likely personality disorder, imho.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Yep, something's not right with this kid. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

8. You know, if you promise free pizza forever to everyone in the country

you will get elected.

Democracy must grapple with unreality in America. What's causing this? Materialism, Hollywood, self-interest? This is not an awful lot better than dour hateful angry holier-than-thou MAGAzis.

[SheltieLover]

10. I agree!

It sounds like he stirred up a bunch of young voters & older folks sat out the primary.

[JI7]

15. social media is a big part of it

[SheltieLover]

17. I'm sure

Plant?

[lapucelle]

12. There's a red rose next to his name on twitter. N/T

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. What does that signify?

I don't happen to do Twitter.

[ornotna]

16. DSA

The rose emoji is the best representation for the symbol of the political group, Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA. One user, Keith Spencer, who uses the rose in his Twitter handle, knows the long history of the red rose used for labor groups and social democrats.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=red+rose+next+to+his+name+on+twitter

[SheltieLover]

26. Ty!

This young man sounds more like a Whol plant to me to discredit Dems! 🤬

I wonder if his behavior & platform are consistent with this group.

[dmr]

35. That was my thought, too.

I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

[SheltieLover]

36. 👍

Kid is scummy.

[BannonsLiver]

19. In my experience it signifies stupidity and dead enders

[SheltieLover]

27. Sounds like it

If his "values" are consistent with that group's beliefs.

[betsuni]

20. From one of his tweets: "I despise Biden and I despise the DNC... ."

The Plan (from a comment on his Twitter page): "Aaron and I are part of a national revolution led by young people ... intent on turning the Democratic Party back into a progressive party for working people."

[SheltieLover]

25. 😱 despises Joe? 🤬

Dems need to stop him from using Dem designation! 🤬🤬🤬

[betsuni]

31. Sounds like he falls for anti-Democratic Party conspiracy theories.

That's a shame.

[SheltieLover]

37. And he is spinning them, apparently

Wohl plant?

[JI7]

28. When people like this say "working people" they pretty much mean White Men

[betsuni]

29. Yes. Describing himself as a dishwasher. He's a student with a part time job (weekends,

said a local news program).

[BannonsLiver]

18. Ah. Say no more. That explains everything.

The rose is an avatar for stupidity.

[lapucelle]

21. Not if the rose is drooping.

[Cha]

30. Not surprising someone with a history of being a

"bully" & "blackmail" "hates Joe Biden".

[SheltieLover]

32. Right!

Aloha, Cha

[Cha]

33. Aloha, Sheltie..

(((Sigh)))).. All the Brainwashing-Gaslighting Crap we have to deal with.. it's a wonder we stay sane.

[SheltieLover]

34. IKR?

I'm really angry about USPS!

And House "invited" him to testify?

Time to play hard ball! Past time, imo.🤬

[SheltieLover]

38. Guessing this kid is a Wohl plant

Running as a Dem.

Can Dems not kick him out of party? Prevent him from using Dem designation?