Thomas Gooch has made headlines in recent weeks for his motion to have his opponent’s “large breasted” paralegal removed from the counsel’s table. Turns out, he also faces a battery trial next week for allegedly pulling a woman’s hair.
Back in March, the Daily Herald wrote that Gooch, who’s also the Highway Commissioner for Cuba Township, IL, had been arrested after a woman who worked with him at the township office accused him of attacking her. She said the two argued for an entire day over the fact that she wasn’t wearing the “friendship ring” he gave her, and that he eventually yanked her hair and ripped her earring out. Despite the ring, she says they weren’t dating. Gooch denies he was violent, saying, “I tugged on her hair in a playful way.” When she decided to file formal charges, the woman called Gooch a “bully” who had to “learn a lesson.”
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