Maybe we'll never know for sure whether Jamie Comer — whom the rest of the world knows as Rep. James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, now chair of the House Oversight Committee — really beat up former girlfriend Marilyn Thomas, called her parents in the middle of the night threatening to kill her, and then took her to have an abortion back in 1991.
But we know for sure that in 2015, Thomas took an enormous professional and personal risk to come forward with those allegations during a dead-heat Kentucky GOP gubernatorial primary. Comer ultimately lost that primary, due to his own political incompetence, with his failed smear campaign against a woman who never wanted to speak out against him in the first place.
