A Texas Republican city council candidate is facing felony child pornography charges after being arrested just hours before the elections.
Brad Benson, a candidate for Place #4 on the city council of Granbury, located just southwest of Fort Worth, was arrested on November 6. “I can confirm he was arrested by the District Attorney’s Office yesterday and charged with two felony child pornography charges, he should have a bond set today,” Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds told Newsweek.
The Republican Party of Hood County (RPHC) withdrew its support for Benson after more details about the charges emerged.
It’s a city council election… which is why the headline isn’t specific.
Is it newsworthy? Yes
Is this post title intentionally vague because most people won’t read the article and will assume it’s at LEAST a mayoral or state congressmen? Yes
Unless someone lives in this district and is personally affected by the particulars of how the election will be handled, why does it matter whether it’s city council, or school board, or county government, or state, or federal?
I’m at a loss trying to understand your central point. I don’t want to put words in your mouth but I’m getting the vibe that the point is it’s “only” city council.
That’s significant though, you see. It’s at this level of government that a lot of the harmful rhetoric is playing out about transgender folk being groomers and pedos; a message proclaimed loudly by a certain type of republican.
Conservatives keep getting twisted out of shape about people that look and love differently having equal rights to them, meanwhile keep electing pedos, philanderers, rapists, and many of the other qualities they project onto others.