The only question now for Abby Broyles, a Democrat running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Oklahoma’s 5th district, is when to throw in the towel. Or uncork another bottle of vino, relax, and kiss her would-be career as disruptive feminist in Congress goodbye.
Broyles was forced to apologize recently about her behavior at a slumber party at which some 12- and 13-year-old girls were watching Titanic. She was so drunk on wine that she verbally abused the girls, then hurled all over a girl’s shoes.
Worse still, Broyles had denied attending the party. Now, she says, the problem was that she mixed medication with the wine, and can’t remember a thing.
F-Bombs
Broyles’s candidacy began sinking when she showed up the party on February 11 at the invitation of the homeowner, a parent of one of the girls, NonDoc reported:
According to multiple accounts of the evening, Broyles became intoxicated and spoke derogatorily to some of the girls. She allegedly called one girl an “acne f***er,” which prompted the girl to leave the room in tears. Broyles allegedly called another girl a “Hispanic f***er” and another a “judgy f***er.”
At one point, Broyles allegedly vomited into a laundry basket and onto one girl’s shoes.
Parents were not amused.
Sarah Matthews vented on Twitter. “Since it’s been five days and you have neglected to reach out to any of the young ladies (12 & 13 yr olds, including my daughter) you verbally and emotionally abused last weekend, I thought I would give you a chance to try to apologize (at a minimum) here,” she began a four-Tweet thread:
For someone who pontificates to be undyingly pro woman, I am disgusted by your behavior and find it appalling you couldn’t understand why their parents are angry. Your vile, cruel, and bigoted behavior should not be excused or ‘swept under the rug’.
Not only did you scare and traumatize these beautiful girls with your words, you ruined a pair of their shoes with your vomit! (Which she saved up to buy with her own money!) Considering how much you bragged about how “rich and successful” you are to these children,
surely you can afford to replace her shoes!
Matthews told NoDoc that because Broyles “stood on a soap box and talked about empowering women, and rather than do that with these girls she chose to belittle and denigrate the next generation of women.”
Matthews’ daughter was terrified of the blotto Broyles:
“It really just happened,” the 12-year-old said. “It was like it was a switch and she started being rude to people. Early in the evening, she had been nice.”
The party attendee said Broyles seemed to be angry at everyone there.
“We were all sitting around, and she was just going around in a circle saying rude things and would end with ‘F-er’ and saying ‘F-you’ to all of us there — really rude things,” the 12-year-old said. “My friend has acne, and she had been talking about her acne early in the evening, and then [Broyles] called her an ‘acne F-er,’ and she ran upstairs crying.”
The attendee said she eventually became the target of Broyles’ pronouncements.
“She was telling me I wasn’t going to be as successful as her,” the 12-year-old said.
While the girl said she was offended at Broyles’ remarks, she said she chose not to respond because she was scared of what Broyles might say or do to her.
Later, the same attendee said one of the girls attempted to return a pair of eyeglasses she believed belonged to Broyles. When asked if the glasses were hers, Broyles allegedly said they were “the Hispanic f***er’s,” in reference to a girl at the sleepover.
Denial and Apology
Broyles denied that she attended the gathering.
“I saw the tweets. I have been out of town on a fundraising trip, and they are awful and offensive and false,” Broyles told NonDoc:
Asked if she had even gone to the house where the slumber party occurred, Broyles said, “No.”
“I don’t want to talk about — I mean, this is ridiculous that this is becoming a thing,” Broyles said. “This didn’t happen.”
That lame excuse was a dog that just wouldn’t hunt. So she fessed up to KFOR4’s Kevin Ogle; to blame were “stress and anxiety and insomnia.”
She and the homeowner were drinking wine when the homeowner “gave me a medication I had never taken before. And I had an adverse reaction. Instead of helping me sleep, I hallucinated. And I don’t remember anything until I woke up or came to, and I was throwing up in a hamper.”
“I didn’t know where I was,” Broyles said. “It was the most awful experience that I’ve had.”
Ogle pressed the candidate and asked what she had to say to the girls and their parents.
I want to apologize to the families again, and for people who say I just blacked out and I’m making this up, you don’t know me. I would never ever say anything hurtful. I’ve never, ever would say something hurtful like those things. And that’s why I know I was not in my right mind. I know that that’s what happened because of that combination of things. And I deeply, deeply regret it.
Broyles also claimed that NonDoc “misquoted” her. She “never told them … I wasn’t there.” NonDoc stands by its story.
On Twitter, Broyles tried to explain.
“The things I’m accused of saying are not who I am, nor do they depict the entirety of the situation that occurred,” she wrote. They are not a reflection of my beliefs.”
Broyles called the reports a “a painful attack on my character.”
A reply to Broyles claims she drunkenly heckled a comedian at a non-profit event.
