Yikes.

That’s Bill O’Neill, the only Democrat on the Ohio Supreme Court and a recently announced candidate for Governor. The dude’s very big on weed.

In the wake of reports about sexual misconduct by Senator Al Franken and other meticulously reported accounts of abuse by prominent figures in the worlds of politics and entertainment — what O’Neill calls a “national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago” — O’Neill saw fit to speak on behalf of “heterosexual males” everywhere.

But O’Neill makes a critical mistake in his stupid (and presumably satirical) post. (Update: It is not satirical at all. In an interview with Cleveland.com, he confirmed the post was serious, defended Roy Moore, and said he wasn’t sure the tally of 50 women was accurate because “he doesn’t keep count.”)

Indeed, a steamy hayloft tryst with a “gorgeous personal secretary,” though pretty obviously fabricated (at least to some degree, I assume), is not at all what the “national feeding frenzy” is about. As reporter Jackie Borchadt notes in the tweet above, it’s about assault. It’s about a culture where sexual abuse has been accepted and sanctioned among society’s most powerful men for decades.

Reporter David Dayen argues that the “feeding frenzy” has readily identifiable origins. (Read this thread):


We can for sure still talk about legalizing marijuana and battling the opioid crisis. But the conversation around sexual misconduct, and the culture that permits it, is necessary. Another Democratic Gubernatorial hopeful, Betty Sutton, announced yesterday that if elected, she would create a Sexual Harassment and Assault Office within the executive branch.

Bill’s going to regret this post.

Peace.

This article appears in Nov 15-21, 2017.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

5 replies on “Ohio Supreme Court Justice, Gubernatorial Candidate Bill O’Neill Writes About Sleeping With 50 Women, Wants to be Voice of ‘Heterosexual Males’”

  1. A proofreader might have been helpful for his post. At first I thought he was saying Senator Taft was his first true love, and he was about to make a gay joke. It wasn’t until I finished the long, wordy sentence I realized the “range” was from secretary to redhead, not from secretary to Taft.

  2. Let me see. Well, 56 yrs ago, I was standing in the milk line in elementary school and backed into a girl in front of me. I do not recall her name and I do not remember saying I’m sorry or excuse me. Therefore, any political aspirations that I might of had are now gone in the wind.

  3. A lot of heterosexual men don’t seem to understand the difference between consensual and nonconsensual sex with women, which is troubling.

  4. I know gay trolls that sleep with that many in a month. He has some catching up to do.

    I bet the staff of the scene can beat those numbers.

  5. Alpha Male alert! Just put his name on the governors office because these sexual conquest statistics are up there with the legends like Ric Flair and Wilt Chamberlain. He’s definitely a leader.

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