A Teen Candidate Admitted to Revenge Porn. Now He’s Dropping Out.

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19-year-old Aaron Coleman has dropped out of the race for a state House seat in Kansas. After winning the Democratic primary, several women said he'd viciously harassed them in middle school

Aaron Coleman Photo: Aaron Coleman for Kansas/Facebook In Kansas last week, 19-year-old Aaron Coleman was declared the winner of a Democratic primary for a state House seat, defeating seven-term incumbent Stan Frownfelter by just 14 votes. At first, Coleman’s seemed to be another story of a young, progressive candidate unseating an Establishment Democrat.

Another woman, Kati Hampton, now 20, said that Coleman threatened her and disseminated a nude picture of her when she was only 13. “He got one of my nudes and blackmailed me with it and told me if I didn’t send him more he would it to all of my friends and family,” she told the Star in an email. “And when I didn’t send him more, he sent it to everyone I knew. I don’t know how he got the picture.”

In a statement to the Star editorial board, Coleman said: “I made serious mistakes in middle school and I deeply regret and apologize for them. I’ve grown up a great deal since then.” According to a sympathetic profile in the Intercept, Coleman “reached out to his victims from middle school to make amends, though they have not responded.

He went on to call the episode “a defeat for democracy,” and said that “whoever the Democrat nominee is for house district 37, it wasn’t who the voters selected.”

 

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Good. But if he really wants a political career, there's always the OTHER party.

Unbelievable that your reputation can be destroyed for something you did in high school. Do people forget that humans are not perfect

Good.

Good Perhaps if more younger men paid the price of harassment they wouldn't grow up to be predators later in life MeToo

Good. I have a hard time believing you just grow out of that kind of behavior.

KatCapps Makes him perfect for the GOP

Good, bye.

Кажется, харасмент превратился из здоровой борьбы за права в фетиш, одновременно с элементами бизнеса и политики! It seems the harassment has changed from a struggle for the human rools into fetish with the elements of business and politics!

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