Democrats and Republicans alike are horrified after Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate and sitting state Supreme Court justice Bill O'Neill decided to "speak up on the behalf of all heterosexual males" on Friday following calls for Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to resign, Cleveland.com reports. "In the last 50 years, I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females," began O'Neill's extremely ill-advised Facebook post. "It ranged from a gorgeous personal secretary to Sen. Bob Taft (Senior) who was my first true love and we made love in the hayloft of her parent's barn in Gallipolis and ended with a drop-dead gorgeous red head who was a senior adviser to Peter Lewis at Progressive Insurance in Cleveland."
O'Neill claimed he was oversharing to "save my opponents some research time" and then asked: "Now can we get back to discussing legalizing marijuana and opening the state hospital network to combat the opioid crisis? I am sooooo disappointed by this national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago."
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