About a month ago, we broke the story that notorious Oklahoma politician Sean "The Domestic Abuser" Roberts – a candidate for State Labor Commissioner – was accused of some pretty vile and awful things by his ex-wife in divorce documents that were filed under oath in Tennessee back in the early 2000s.
She claimed that Roberts punched her for downloading a song on the internet, made her sleep on the couch when she refused his sexual advances, stalked her whereabouts, engaged in some weird form of waterboarding, and many other terrible things.
A decade later, she filed and was granted an emergency order to modify their child custody arrangement over, amongst other things, Sean making his kids live in this attic:
We were the only media outlet to report the news, but the report and circulating divorce documents gained traction in the Oklahoma photosphere, leading the Oklahoma Bankers Association to cancel a fundraiser for Roberts.
Channel 25 reported on the event's cancellation, and noted that despite the abuse allegations, Stitt still supports him for Labor Commissioner: