Preface: This post was written before Paul Heintz posted his story on this subject. My questions are still valid; my thoughts about the extent and consistency of media coverage are tempered somewhat by his article.
Looks like the Vermont Republican Party’s candidate-vetting system has a few holes in it. Turns out that one of VTGOP’s candidates for House has a little revenge-porn problem. WCAX:
He’s running to represent Colchester in the Legislature, but the divorced businessman is also now facing revenge porn charges.
The alleged victim went to police back in July telling investigators Patrick Liebrecht was posting sexually explicit images of her on social media without her permission.
The alleged scumbag, Pat Liebrecht, has denied the charges… and in the process, he pretty much admiited they’re true.
According to the affidavit, the woman told police once she broke up with him this summer he began posting them on her family and friends’ Facebook pages and threatening her saying, “I will make plenty of trouble for you.”
When police interviewed Liebrecht they say he admitted to posting the nude photos and comments. …
Police say he then denied that the woman was nude in the photo and told them that he could “go onto National Geographic and see that stuff.”
Meaning what, exactly? He only showed boobies?
The VTGOP quickly distanced itself from Liebrecht, although they can’t do anything to get him off the ballot. He will remain a standard-bearer for Republicanism and a potential state officeholder. An ironically apropos one, in the Year of the Trump.
But the case of Mr. Liebrecht, along with those of social-media sulliers Michael McGarghan and Bill Lawrence, raise some questions regarding the party and the media.
The Vermont Political Observer. 