PA-08: Jim Bognet Celebrates Endorsement From Sean Parnell, Alleged Domestic Abuser and Disgraced Former Senate Candidate

Parnell was accused by ex-wife of choking her, hitting their children

Apparently, Jim Bognet hasn’t done a Google search on his newest endorser, disgraced former GOP Senate candidate Sean Parnell. In November, Parnell suspended his Senate campaign after losing custody of his children following “tearful testimony” from his ex-wife that Parnell physically and verbally abused her and hit their children.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

In tearful testimony, Laurie Snell told a family court judge that her husband once called her a “whore” and a “piece of s—” while pinning her down. On another occasion, she said, Parnell slapped one child hard enough to leave fingerprint-shaped welts through the back of the child’s T-shirt. And she said he once got so angry he punched a closet door with such force it swung into a child’s face and left a bruise. She said Parnell told his child: “That was your fault.”

She also testified that after a Thanksgiving trip in 2008, he briefly forced her out of their vehicle alongside a highway after raging at her, telling her to “go get an abortion.” … Once, she testified, “He tried to choke me out on a couch and I literally had to bite him” to get free. “He was strangling me.”

DCCC spokesperson James Singer: 

“Jim Bognet celebrating an endorsement from alleged child and spouse abuser Sean Parnell shows an alarming lack of judgment and moral character. He should renounce this endorsement and Parnell’s alleged actions immediately.”

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