New Hampshire State Representative Jess Edwards of the Gross Old Pervs Party, is refusing to apologize for being overly interested in "ripe" and "fertile" teenage girls having to wait until they are 18 years old before getting married. To make the situation worse, he said that he won't apologize because he's the real victim here: "In an interview with The Daily Beast on Tuesday night, Edwards said using the word 'ripe' was a mistake, but that he did not deserve the hundreds of emails he received calling him a pedophile and worse." “I misspoke.