The following report is from WXYZ Detroit:
A Republican nominee for the Michigan House of Representatives is facing backlash for comments he made about sexual assault and his daughters while discussing a possible decertification of the election.
Robert “RJ” Regan, a Republican who just won a special election to fill the Michigan House seat in District 74, made the comments while speaking on a Facebook Live for the Michigan Rescue Coalition.
While discussing a possible decertification, Regan said:
Having three daughters, I tell my daughters, ‘If rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’
The comment drew strong reaction from one of the other guests on the show, Amber Harris who called Regan’s comment “shameful.”
Host Adam de Angeli pointed out that the show is “streaming on YouTube,” then added: “probably not for much longer after what Robert said.”
Reached by phone today, de Angelini said he believes Regan “misspoke,” trying to say that not contesting the election would be like telling his daughters to lay back and enjoy rape.
Maybe not the best analogy, but he was speaking extemporaneously.
De Angeli said.
Regan did not respond to a call to his cell phone for comment, but said in a text message that his remarks were taken out of context and being used against him by a “leftist group doing what they do.”
But even Republicans slammed Regan today, with Tori Sachs of the Michigan Freedom Fund issuing a blistering statement, also condeming his recent support for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
RJ Regan’s disgusting and dehumanizing comments on the horror of sexual assault along with his support of murderous dictator Vladimir Putin are despicable and completely disqualify him from holding public office.
I teach my four young daughters to stand up for themselves, to know their worth, and to fight back and speak out against creeps like Regan. RJ Regan doesn’t belong anywhere near the state Capitol, and that is why we endorsed and supported his opponent.
Sachs said
Ironically, one of Regan’s biggest opponents in his political career is one of his daughters.
When he ran for office two years ago, daughter Stephanie Regan tweeted:
If you’re in Michigan and 18+ pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad for state rep. Tell everyone.
The Tweet went viral and Regan lost. But in the current race, he is the presumptive favorite and will face a Democrat in a general election this May.
Michigan’s 74th district is in Kent County in West Michigan. Regan won the special election for the Republican nomination last week with 32.9% of the vote, beating the candidate in second place by 81 votes. In 2020, Mark Huizenga won the seat with 63.1% of the vote.
In 2020, Regan’s daughter urged people not to vote for her dad in a tweet that said,
If you’re in michigan [sic] and 18+ pls for the love of god [sic] do not vote for my dad for state rep. tell everyone.
According to The Hill.
On June 25, 2020, Regan addressed the tweet with a statement on his Facebook page that said in part,
I love all of my four children and only want what is best for them. We may not always agree on ‘what is best’ but, their best, is my goal.
This isn’t the first controversial thing Regan has said recently. Gongwer published a story Monday morning featuring posts from Regan where it appeared he backed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and called it a “hoax.”
We have reached out to the Michigan Republican Party for a statement. They congratulated Regan and two other Republicans in a tweet the day after the special election.
Regan will face Carol Glanville, a Democrat, in the special election for the seat on May 3.
Glanville released a statement that reads in part,
As a woman, human, and public servant, I am stunned that a person who wishes to hold public office would hold such beliefs. I did not think I would need to clearly state on the campaign trail that rape is never inevitable, acceptable, or warranted and is the worst type of personal violation anyone could ever experience. In empathy and compassion, I stand with survivors everywhere while defending human rights.
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[24] Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. [25] Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. [26] Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. [27] Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.Proverbs 4:24-27
Well, that’s one way to kill your campaign…
This is why I reported on Trump’s recent statements, about essentially packing the ballot box with ‘straight tickets,’ without any regard to the candidate. This is PRECISELY how so much corruption is ushered in in this country: you get perverted freaks like this clown, who will still have to do the will of the lobbyists, bankers, corporations, and other elitist groups regardless. Republican, Democrat, they are all a waste.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I can hear it now: ‘But at least he’s straight.’ Sigh. In the chambers of their imagery… When they allowed Kinsey’s criminal & fraudulent ‘science’ to stand, & changing the Bill of Rights protections to protect porn & pagan philosophy as ‘science’….they said, …’those aren’t Gospel issues’, & we’re not certified psychologists… Then, after ghettoizing, retreating into the churches, they said: ‘We can’t preach on ‘that’ sin, or ‘this’ sin, because we’ll empty the pews & won’t be able to pay our bills…and ‘big’ is everything. ‘Just preach the Gospel.’
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But it was an edited, ecumenical Gospel. And it was brought in by ‘educated’ men & women who had the ‘secret’ & ‘advanced’ knowledge (initiated into the MYSTERIES) that we couldn’t be sure what was ‘in the originals’, & therefore, maybe ‘this’ sin really isn’t, or that. After all, AUGUSTINE said…. Brought in gradually, stealthily & deceitfully, so that those initiated could ‘prove their worth’ and ‘earn their pay’, & ‘let the lower levels/laity down easy’. They really were gnostics. And seduction & rape are actually pretty apt descriptions of what went on.
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The salt is corrupted, and the light shaded. Paralleling the apostasy of Israel & Judah to a ‘t’….or maybe we should say ‘to the jot & tittle’ and the ‘iota’? Praise God though: he preserved the word in the King James, & steered us through & out of new Rome & new Greek Babylon & all the Jewish fables & kabala, their ‘great awakening of apostasy’, because Jesus is the Faithful & True, the Good Shepherd, & he said that not one jot, nor one tittle, should fail until all is fulfilled. The Masoretic, & not their beloved apocryphal Septuagint out of Alexandria.
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Eze 8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Eze 8:12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
Eze 8:13 ¶ He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
Eze 8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Eze 8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
Eze 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Eze 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Eze 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
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Good article. I think he is in the club & his role was to get anti-bidenwar people labelled as misogynist & extremist to further censorship.
Yep, these politician oinkers do play those kind of tricks to make the “other side” look bad.
That lying little she devil hussy Joyce Meyer says “we need to quit talking bad about those who hurt us and find the good in them” I can’t wait until she drops dead!
Find the good in people? I thought there was none righteous no not one, and also I thought there was nothing good about us myself included!
Rape is inevitable? Well so is prison or a bullet!
Sorry I got sidetracked, so many false teachers on the Hell-I-vision, I get so angry or irritated I need to vent.
God bless his daughter, she’s got guts to stand up for what’s right. Republican, democrat, what difference does it make, he’s a disgusting pervert who has no business being voted toilet scrubber, much less governor.
13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.(Proverbs 12)