{"id":106,"date":"2006-01-25T20:02:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T01:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/106"},"modified":"2006-01-25T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T01:02:24","slug":"ive-got-your-republican-family-values-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/106","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Got Your Republican Family Values Right Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Pam’s House Blend<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The night Cincinnati City Councilman Sam Malone is accused of beating his son with a belt, he told the 14-year-old boy: \"I'm not finished with you,\" according to Hamilton County court documents.<\/p>\n

Malone, who has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence, was upset that his son was late to a checkpoint while on a school field trip at Paramount's Kings Island on May 13, according to the boy's statement to police.<\/p>\n

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The hospital records detail bruising to his chest, arms, back and buttocks.<\/p>\n

The boy told police he fell at one point and Malone continued to hit him.<\/p>\n

\"I pay for your school, and you bring home poor grades,\" Malone told his son during the beating, according to the boy's statement. \"You're not paying attention.\"<\/p>\n

When his father stopped hitting him, the boy told police Malone told him he wasn't finished with him, adding: \"I'm going to whip the black off you.\"<\/p>\n

Shortly after, Malone left his Walnut Hills home, and a boy who also lives with Malone and his son called 911.<\/p>\n

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The domestic-violence charge was not the first for the councilman.<\/p>\n

In 1991, he was charged with choking and pushing his mother. That charge was dismissed after he completed a counseling program. <\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Malone by the way, is black. You gotta wonder about a black man who tells is son he’ll “whip the black off you”. So now the trial begins…<\/p>\n

After opening statements, Malone's 14-year-old son testified.<\/p>\n

As the former councilman looked on, the teenager recounted what happened in their Walnut Hills home.<\/p>\n

In the year before Malone's arrest, the teen said he and his father had had a rocky relationship because he was failing eighth grade. Then the boy missed the checkpoint, prompting his teacher to call Malone.<\/p>\n

Malone's son testified that Malone was angry and told him to go upstairs and take his clothes off.<\/p>\n

\"He started whipping me with a belt, he had it wrapped double on his hand,\" the teenager said. \"He kept on hitting me, and I fell over, and he kept on hitting me.\"<\/p>\n

Asked by Murray to demonstrate how he tried to defend against the blows, the teen crossed his arms against his chest and tucked his head down.<\/p>\n

\"I was in pain, crying,\" the teenager said. \"He hit me all over, on my back, arms, side, stomach, chest and my legs.\"<\/p>\n

Malone, 35, was arrested after another boy living in his house in Walnut Hills called 911 and said the 14-year-old didn't feel safe there. Malone's son then got on the phone, crying and repeatedly asking the police dispatcher if he'd have to return to the house. <\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know what is the more obscene here…a grown man beating the crap out of a fourteen year old boy for missing a goddamn field trip checkpoint or the fact that beating a defenseless half naked child so badly they have to be taken to the hospital is only a misdemeanor in Ohio. That what it means to have red state family values is it?<\/p>\n

As you might expect, Malone has a track record of political gay bashing<\/a>, vehemently opposing the repeal of Cincinnati’s ban on gay rights laws. I wonder how many times he’s babbled that same sex marriage is harmful to children?<\/p>\n

Life just isn’t sweet for these people unless they can beat the crap out somebody smaller and weaker then they are.<\/p>\n

[Edited a tad…]<\/em><\/p>\n