Has Eric Dondero Rittberg stopped beating his wives?

Carol Moore reports a most disturbing rumor about the master shake who is currently seeking to represent the Adolf Giuliani wing of the Rapepubliccon Party in the TX-14 congressional primary. Listening to Eric take turns first lavishing fake praise, then going apeshit and foaming at the mouth here, here, and here, it doesn’t take much of a vivid imagination to believe.

One warmonger to respond to Ron Paul’s statements was Paul’s former congressional campaign manager Eric Dondero who now fulminates daily about fighting “Islamofacist” terrorists on a variety of forums. He declared he’s running against Paul for congress in his home district in 2008, unless Paul resigns or another republican stands up against him. See RightPundit, RedState.Com, and this blog.
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Dondero was Ron Paul’s travel aide when Paul was running for the Libertarian Party nomination, ran his 1996 congressional campaign where Paul re-took his seat, and worked for a time in Paul’s congressional office. I can say from personal experience that Dondero is a sleazy little operative, quick to insult and smear others with lies. So I thought a lot better of Paul when I heard he had ended their alliance.
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The most persistent unpleasant rumor whispered around about Dondero himself was that he allegedly “beat his wife.” He introduced me to her at the 1987 libertarian convention and she definitely had the kind of sad sack, always wary demeanor of a woman who expected a whack in the head momentarily. They later divorced.
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I therefore was quite suspicious when I read Dondero’s claim on a libertarian discussion group in November of 2006 that his NEW wife had been mugged three times. Two paragraphs from the post will make his boorish style of argumentation quite clear:
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Yup, I’m a bigot alright. Married to a Chinese woman. Been all around the world; 30 countries on 5 continents. Speak 15 to 20 languages. Have had more Mexican and Filipina girlfriends than you can shake a stick at.
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My wife has been mugged three times (!!!) in the last three years in Houston. Once where they put a gun to her head. All because she’s Asian. And illegals and others here in Houston prey on Asians, cause they think they’ve “got money.”
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After the posting I replied on the discussion group, referring to the 1987 rumors, and wondering if Dondero’s current wife really had been mugged or if the injuries came from someone a little closer to home. Dondero promptly dropped off the discussion group! EndAbuse.Org reports that as many as 3 million women a year are assaulted by their significant others. That sounds low to me!
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I also noted at the time some men may prefer to date immigrant women. First, many come from countries where deference to abusive males is still prevalent. Second, tenuous immigrant status makes them less likely to report physical assaults to police and/or are more easily intimidated by threats a man will press false charges against them. No wonder so many American men import “mail order brides.” If the rumors and impressions are true and Eric’s American born wife finally got up the gumption to call police on him, it would make sense he then turned to foreign born women.