One current Republican / Sedition Party candidate for Senate in Missouri is well-known to that state's residents, and not in a good way. Former Gov. Eric Greitens was elected in 2016, but quickly unravelled after being indicted in 2018 of invasion of privacy for taking compromising pictures of his hairstylist with whom the married Governor was having an affair. A second felony charge of misuse of campaign funds forced Greitens to resign in disgrace in 2018.
Now his ex-wife is accusing him of abuse of her and their children. From her sworn affidavit, he sounds like a real piece of work:
"A sworn affidavit from Sheena Greitens and filed Monday is part of an ongoing child custody dispute in Missouri. A public affairs professor at the University of Texas, she sought divorce from Eric Greitens after a sex scandal which led to his resignation as governor in June 2018. [snip]
In the affidavit, Sheena Greitens casts her ex-husband as someone who threatened to use his political connections and influence in order to destroy her reputation to win custody of the children.
'Prior to our divorce, during an argument in late April 2018, Eric knocked me down and confiscated my cell phone, wallet and keys so that I was unable to call for help or extricate myself and our children from our home,' Sheena Greitens wrote in the filing. 'I became afraid for my safety and that of our children at our home,' later adding that his 'behavior included physical violence toward our children, such as cuffing our then-3-year-old son across the face at the dinner table in front of me and yanking him around by his hair.'
In 2019, one of her sons came home from a visit with his dad 'with a swollen face, bleeding gums and loose tooth,' she said.
'He said Dad had hit him; however, Eric said they were roughhousing and it had been an accident,' Sheena Greitens wrote, adding that the tooth eventually had to be removed." (our emphasis)
Given the Republican base's preference for felons, bullies and abusers, this may not hurt Greitens at the polls in August when the Republican primary is held. But it's another window into the rotted out core of a sick party and their "leadership."
(photo: Greitens and ex-wife in 2016. J.B. Forbes / St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
