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Steve Garvey touts 'family values' in his Senate bid. Some of his kids tell another story (www.latimes.com)
submitted 4 months ago by lettruthout to c/politics
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11449852

Now, as the Republican front-runner in the race for a California U.S. Senate seat, Garvey has avoided detailed policy positions, instead relying on his name recognition and clean-cut image. His campaign website describes him as a “true role model,” he praised the party’s value of “personal responsibility” in a recent interview, and he called in an op-ed to “restore moral integrity in Congress.”

But the reality of Garvey’s life is more complex. The 75-year-old has struggled with debt, been repeatedly sued, faced a bitter divorce, and got two women pregnant before quickly marrying a third woman, his current wife, in a scandal that briefly made him a national punchline in 1989. He pledged in interviews at the time to take “moral and financial responsibility” for the children.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So he's morally bankrupt, misogynistic, full of bluster, doesn't know shit about finances, and has no ethics. Sounds like he's perfect for the Senate.

Clean cut my ass. Anyone who thinks this shithead is fit for political office should be imprisoned as a lunatic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

19 time loser, i think, in HoF elections, too. 15 during main eligibility, plus committee votes since.. didn't even make the final ballot last year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Yet he keeps trying, I think he knows full well if he gets the position he'll finally be in good company with the other sick hyenas in public office.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

I have this totally unreasonable belief that I can sometimes tell just from looking at someone that they're an awful person.

[–] TurboDiesel 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like an AI trained on nothing but old 700 Club reruns was asked to generate a politician.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

🤣

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Zero trust for that face.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

And he definitely looks like he doesn’t understand the concept of consent.

[–] surewhynotlem 5 points 4 months ago

It's not unreasonable. Certain personality types take certain steps to look certain ways. Your brain is a pattern matching machine. Don't be surprised when it finds the pattern.

[–] jordanlund 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Holy god that's by far the worst one. Still the same gaping chasm of moral vacancy, but he looks younger and more vigorous, more capable with his greedy darkness.

(Edit: It's Joe Manchin, a totally different crooked rich white guy who gets away with everything)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe that’s Micheal Flynn. The Q spouting bullshitter that plead guilty to lying to the FBI about colluding with Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

We're both wrong. It's Joe Manchin.

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah he just looks like he raised money to keep the Vietnam war going in like the 70s

[–] ThrowawayInTheYear23 21 points 4 months ago

[–] kmartburrito 8 points 4 months ago

I originally read this as Steve Harvey

[–] Laughbone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No paywall link https://web.archive.org/web/20240201160601/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-01/2024-california-election-dodgers-senate-candidate-steve-garvey-kids-family