# "Kentucky lawmaker facing assault allegations kills himself" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475 "2017-12-14T04:21:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/21 "2017-12-14T13:26:39Z")
> [@naita](#): > > I was wondering about that. Classy dude to the last … Doing some more digging, Johnson claimed that [he was at the WTC on 9/11](http://www.whas11.com/news/local/local-bishop-on-running-911-morgue-it-was-heaven-and-hell/316264380)and set up a morgue in a Brooks Brothers store. [Others dispute this](https://insiderlouisville.com/metro/rep-dan-johnson-denies-allegation-of-molesting-17-year-old-says-he-will-not-resign/). He also claimed to have raised the dead. (In South America, not NYC.) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/22 "2017-12-14T13:26:56Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > How can he say “Heaven is my home”? Don’t people who commit suicide go to hell? > > Oh right, he was a moron. Generally, suicide resulting from “grave mental disturbance” is generally not considered a mortal sin – and if this guy wasn’t the poster child for grave mental disturbance I don’t know who is. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/23 "2017-12-14T13:28:47Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Generally, suicide resulting from “grave mental disturbance” is generally not considered a mortal sin – and if this guy wasn’t the poster child for grave mental disturbance I don’t know who is. Doesn’t that cover pretty much every suicide? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/24 "2017-12-14T13:48:13Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Is it the same Dan Johnson who put up photoshopped images of the Obamas that made them look like chimps? The same guy who literally wore the confederate flag? The same guy who was like super Christian? > > [Kentucky House candidate making no apologies for shocking Facebook posts](http://www.wdrb.com/story/33281914/ky-house-candidate-making-no-apologies-for-shocking-images-on-his-facebook-page) > > Maybe the world is a better place without him? Maybe??.. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/25 "2017-12-14T14:05:59Z")
This is the first Republican to actually do his part to Make America Great Again. I shall read his obituary with satisfaction. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/26 "2017-12-14T14:11:57Z")
Damn, we’re in a mean mood today… But dude was one piece of work, for sure. Disgrace would have sufficed, though. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/27 "2017-12-14T14:25:11Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Whatever happened to giving your troubles to God? Perhaps he was delivering them personally? I kid, but I can’t be happy that another miserable person was driven to take their own life. All in all a sad state of affairs. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/28 "2017-12-14T15:47:38Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Hm. Apparently his “PTSD” [is that 9/11 happened](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/14/us/14xp-johnson-screenshot/14xp-johnson-screenshot-jumbo.png). Not that he was there or anything, just that it happened. That message reads like severe mental illness. He was a monstrous asshole with a public platform for spreading his assholery, so I can’t really mourn his loss, but I can’t celebrate it either. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/29 "2017-12-14T15:54:34Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > My condolences to his family. > > As for the man himself… well, I was raised to speak only good of the dead. He’s dead. Good. Bette, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/30 "2017-12-14T16:20:32Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > [He had a lot in his past.](http://longcon.kycir.org/) Among them, he may have burned down his church in 2000. Wow. No wonder he was such a fervent Trump supporter – they shared the same ability to shamelessly make up things about their own awesomeness. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/31 "2017-12-14T16:36:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Doesn’t that cover pretty much every suicide? Yes, if you count severe pain as a grave mental disturbance. The fact that this guy, a sitting congressman with all the health insurance that implies, could not get the mental help he clearly needed is a disgrace. I won’t mourn this guy, but dancing is unseemly. The dude had a wife and (at least one) child. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/32 "2017-12-14T17:56:48Z")
Even though he was a Christian minister, apparently he had never heard of repentance, forgiveness, and leading a good life from then on. If he had done those things, he could have become a tremendous force for good. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/33 "2017-12-14T18:17:27Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > … this guy, a sitting congressman with all the health insurance that implies, could not get the mental help he clearly needed is a disgrace… Correction: NOT a Congressman. A Kentucky state representative. Part time position, insurance same as KY public employees in general or else through his or his spouse’s regular job — still terribly inadequate in most cases. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/34 "2017-12-14T19:14:45Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > How can he say “Heaven is my home”? Don’t people who commit suicide go to hell? > > Oh right, he was a moron. So he’s in moron heaven. Instead of a harp, he gets a rubber band banjo. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/35 "2017-12-14T20:02:16Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > So he’s in moron heaven. Instead of a harp, he gets a rubber band banjo. Strange. That’s my idea of Hell. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/36 "2017-12-14T20:10:42Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Strange. That’s my idea of Hell. [Obligatory Far Side cartoon.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b6/e7/92/b6e792f42a29bad16e015bb5a5e4c4f2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/37 "2017-12-14T20:35:40Z")
[The AP is reporting](https://apnews.com/9b9951db3dda4304990fc04277d79e1d/Wife-to-run-for-seat-of-Kentucky-lawmaker-who-killed-self): > [@](#): > > The wife of a Kentucky lawmaker who killed himself after a sexual assault allegation surfaced this week defended her husband Thursday and said she will run for his seat because “these high-tech lynchings based on lies and half-truths can’t be allowed to win the day.” > > In a statement a day after Dan Johnson’s suicide, Rebecca Johnson said she has been fighting behind her husband for 30 years and “his fight will go on.” > > “Dan is gone but the story of his life is far from over,” she said. I don’t think this will go quite the way she envisions it going. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/38 "2017-12-14T23:58:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > He also claimed to have raised the dead. (In South America, not NYC.) Maybe he was referring to his dick. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/39 "2017-12-15T00:42:13Z")
I just read that article detailing the sexual assault of a 17 year old girl. It’s probably one of the most credible reports I’ve seen in the media. Her testimony of the event is consistent with victim psychology, she has Facebook records of confronting him about it the day after it happened, she told her parents, she told police, she cooperated fully with police investigations, and she has months of clinical documentation about the trauma she suffered in the aftermath. Then there are all the people who witnessed him shitfaced that night. That man was guilty. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/40 "2017-12-15T03:35:02Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > [Obligatory Far Side cartoon.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b6/e7/92/b6e792f42a29bad16e015bb5a5e4c4f2.jpg) [Also.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/88/5f/c7/885fc7d572cc30ffc646951b9f926be1--humor-musical-music-humor.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475.md?page=3)