Wow. You can’t make shit like this up.
It looks like the crowded field for the Democratic nomination for Senator in Maryland just lost one candidate.
David Dickerson is one of 18 Dems seeking the nomination. But he was arrested by Baltimore County police on Saturday on charges of repeatedly raping and assaulting his 19 year-old Latvian wife.
According to Corporal Mike Hill, Dickerson, who’s 43, met his wife in Latvia when she was 16 and took her back to the States to marry her when she was 18. She shortly thereafter got pregnant. She has told police that Dickerson starved her, denied her the ability to call her mother, and repeatedly beat and raped her. She eventually left for Latvia, she told police, but returned when Dickerson threatened her and her family, saying that he “could have anybody bring her back.”
This Dickerson guy may have been running in a Democratic primary, but his platform was hardly a typical one for a Democrat.
I am running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate because the vital issues we face as a state and a nation are not being addressed. We need to renew our respect for life and family values as a means to stand united against evil that threatens our liberty. The moral fabric of our Democratic Party needs to represent our Maryland values, so we need change. As U.S. Senator, I propose that we support daycare, vote against killing human embryos, vote against public funding of abortions which serve as an alternative form of birth control, and we need term limits to prevent corruption in our government.
I’m beginning to think that we should arrest anyone that calls for a “respect for life” or a “culture of life”. Everyone that says stuff like that appears to be either a warmonger or a wife-rapist. Go figure. Maybe Freud could have explained it.
I was going to say it’s about time we had a Democrat do stuff like this to even the score a little, but sadly his values seem to be the same as the rest. The trips to Latvia to find a bride less than half his age should have been a hint that this guy has serious relationship issues.
if that guy’s a Democrat, I’m Paris Hilton…
Oh, but if he has a (D) after his name, he must be okay…we can’t let “single-issue” politics get in the way of a Democratic majority, even if those “Democrats” would just rubber stamp even more of Bush’s judicial nominees…
Feh…
Absofuckenlutely Cali! And Boo it seems more and more dems DO have these kind of ideas/platform-that’s the whole damn problem….they ain’t democrats no matter what. Too many dems have become some sort of weird rethug-lite hybrid either intentionally as a pandering way to get middle of the road votes or just plain stupidly I guess…having no idea what a real democrat is supposed to be.
Ditto what you both said!!
I was just thinking the same things.
With Dems like that we don’t need enemies.
oh yeah, regarding your last paragraph..my personal rule of thumb is that I run like hell the minute someone has to ‘tell’ me what a good christian, muslim etc they are and how they respect life…run like hell-double time. If they really are concerned with culture of life they wouldn’t be talking about it, they’d be out volunteering at shelters, soup kitchens, trying to get health care passed and so on-in other words their actions would show what they really believe to be important to the health and happiness of us all.
Me, too, Babe! I run like hell.
Karel says…if you’re against abortion, don’t have one; if you don’t agree with stem cell research, don’t avail yourself of the cures that develop.
For me it’s fairly simple; a clump of cells is not equivalent to a living human person. ‘Nuff said…
Let’s remember this guy is one of 18 candidates in the primary if I read correctly. Tell me, how serious of a Democratic Candidate could this fellow have been? With his slate of issues from above, I seriously doubt he would have garnered more that a percentage point or two, and those perhaps from disgruntled right wingers.
Tell me, how serious of a Democratic Candidate could this fellow have been?
His ‘electability’ is not the issue here.
And running someone like Casey or Langevin for the Senate is troubling in precisely the same way. Likewise I’ve never found that a person’s ‘faith’ is any guarantee of even basic human decency.
He’s not “electable” because most haven’t even heard of him. I swear to you that I’ve not heard of him until yesterday. At all. This guy is so fucking suspect. It’s not even clear what he does for a living. Where’s he getting his money from? Who’s financing/backing him?
If I had to hazard a guess…what I DO think is happening is a concerted effort to make Maryland less progressive by involving bat-shit wingnuts in trainings, local groups and primaries.
what I DO think is happening is a concerted effort to make Maryland less progressive by involving bat-shit wingnuts in trainings, local groups and primaries.
That’s interesting. Are there other religious right candidates running on the Democratic ticket there?
That’s the thing: I don’t know.
What I do know is that the so-called “Dems for Life” all of a sudden started offering free campaign trainings, etc. last year to various groups. Haven’t heard much from them lately. (While MD is pro-choice but the wingnuts are trying to make strides, without a doubt.)
It just seems to me that the way you make any state less progressive is to infiltrate the Dem party structure. Whoever the bastard is, he is just suspect. His bio is too vague. And I don’t know who he is or where he comes from. Hmmm…
How is that ALL THAT DIFFERENT from Webb or Casey or the Nelsons or or or or ?!?!?!?
Looks JUST LIKE a fucking Democrat to me, at least in the Reid/Schumer/Emmanuel Democratic Party.
Right. Webb, Casey, and Nelson are now ‘typical’. Sorry for my error.
THAT’S where the money and support is going. NO ONE is trying to help Tasini from w/in the party, are they?
No, we hear pushed more and more the idea that authoritarian, pro-corporate, evangelical/opus dei/winger zionist are the DEMS of the future … if they aren’t typical now, in a party that supports Likudist murder as fervently as the Republicans, they will be all-too soon.
I wrote more downthread, but let me tell you–I’ve never heard of him. NEVER. I live here and I am more than informed. I never heard of him. I don’t know who he is. Don’t know where he comes from. I’ve personally met ALL the candidates except for Rasmussen and I’ve never even heard his name mentioned. According to the article I linked in my previous post, he did meet w/ the state party so they could see who he is/was. It’s been a few weeks, but the last time I was on the MD Dems website, there was NO link to this guy’s campaign–and they link to everyone who’s running in the Dem primary.
I know there are people who are trying to make Maryland less progressive. I do know that so-called “Dems for life” were having trainings in the state. I don’t know what his deal is, but like I said: throw the bastard in jail and throw away the key.
OK, so I’ve met all the “major”/non-bat-shit ones. I keep forgetting that everybody and their dog is running for this. Still, never heard of the bastard.
Go figure. Maybe Freud could have explained it.
Hey, Boo, it does not require a psychologist. I’ve not gotten to know one family values, right-to-life, it’s-my-moral-duty-to-lecture-and-dominate-women-I-don’t-know-and-who-don’t-want-to-know-me asshole of either gender who was not an authoritarian personality with ‘issues’. The notion that these folks are somehow more ‘moral’ than the rest of us is a triumph of style and propaganda over substance. Guys like this confuse moral authority with the sexual sadism they regard as normal and are one of the reasons I believe that every consultant, operative and pol hired by the Democratic party should be throughly vetted with psychological testing.
Jung, not Freud.
..but I think Marx could have explained it.
This is some sick shit. I hope the young lady is safe. This absolutely sickens me.
But as for the sorry piece of shit who’s running for the Senate seat, I say–who the fuck is he? I’ve never heard of him, and I live here. I only knew of the following candidates: Mfume, Cardin, Rales (who’s running commercials all over the place and has done so for weeks), Lichtman, Rasmussen (don’t know if he’s still in) and Van Sustren (spelling is likely off but she’s the sister of Greta and dropped out of the race months ago).
Again–who the hell is he? Never heard of him until yesterday, and never read anything about him until today.
Oh–there was an entry on Salon and tons of letters about “mail order brides” (American Woman, Stay Away from Me) and the type of loser who would do this. Color me unsurprised. That’s what asshats like him want: young, nubile and naive. Toss in total dependence upon him (and maybe a family willing to hand her over to the bastard). Add coming from a distant land, and voila! He thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants to do.
He’d never try that shit with a grown woman who is not brainwashed and knows how to take care of business. He never wanted a partner; he wanted a slave.
Toss the bastard in jail and throw away the fucking key.
Fortunately, there is a sane and civilized alternative.
Independent Kevin Zeese