Woman says Roy Moore called her high school after she refused to give him her phone number

Roy Moore.
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A woman who worked at the Gadsden Mall in 1977 told The Washington Post on Wednesday that Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, repeatedly asked her out on dates, and when she refused to give him her phone number, he called her at Gadsden High School.

Gena Richardson said that a few days after she had refused to give Moore, then a 30-year-old attorney, her number, she was sitting in class when the principal's office alerted her to a phone call in the office. "I said, 'Hello?'" Richardson told the Post. "And the male on the other line said, 'Gena, this is Roy Moore.' I was like, 'What?!' He said, 'What are you doing?' I said, 'I'm in trig class.'" He reportedly asked her out on a date during the call, and again when he saw her at Sears a few days later.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.