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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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 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.