Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.) has declined further comment on a titillating news report that a young woman called 911 from his Washington, D.C., apartment seven months ago, saying that the Congressman had choked her.<\/p>\n
The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., cited a police report that said Cynthia Ore, 29, of Rockville, Md., locked herself in a bathroom at Sherwood’s D Street apartment and called 911 from her cellphone on the afternoon of Sept. 15, saying Sherwood “choked her for no apparent reason.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Keep in mind, marriage-defender Sherwood denies that he choked this woman, but doesn’t deny the rest of the circumstances.<\/p>\n
Sherwood, 64 and married, told police he was giving Ore a backrub when she suddenly “jumped up” and ran to the bathroom, according to the newspaper. Sherwood told the Times Leader that Ore was “an acquaintance,” but he would not say what the young woman was doing at his apartment (besides, apparently, getting her back massaged).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The “family values” party strikes again. Yet another anecdote to keep in mind the next time someone complains that Dems<\/em> aren’t serious about protecting the sanctity of marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a conservative House member, Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.) is pretty predictable. Especially when it comes to “family values” issues, Sherwood toes the party line and makes the GOP base happy — he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and the “Marriage Protection Amendment” to the Constitution, and was re-elected to Congress with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}