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Pelosi defends Conyers as 'an icon' amid sexual harassment claims
Yahoo ^ | 26/11/17 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 11/26/2017 2:25:25 PM PST by Eleutheria5

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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi defended Rep. John Conyers on Sunday while saying accusations of sexual harassment against the 88-year-old Democratic congressman from Michigan should be taken “seriously.”

On NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Pelosi called Conyers “an icon in our country” who “has done a great deal to protect women” and deserves “due process.”

“Just because someone is accused — and was it one accusation? Is it two?” Pelosi, D-Calif., said. “The fact is, as John reviews his case, which he knows, which I don’t, I believe he will do the right thing.”

Last week, BuzzFeed revealed that in 2015, Conyers settled a sexual harassment and wrongful dismissal complaint with a woman who said she was fired the year before because she refused to provide sexual favors to him. Another former staffer of Conyers said she faced daily harassment from him in a separate, sealed lawsuit that she attempted to file this year. But the woman abandoned the effort after a judge refused to seal the suit. The House Ethics Committee has launched an investigation into the claims.

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And Al Franken is an icon of SNL. Conyers is gone from the judiciary committee! They're parading out blacks to say how wonderful he is. And NANCY PELOSI is defending him!!!!!!!!!! How the mighty have fallen. She's contradicting the women's-allegations-are-always-true narrative, and praising all he's done to protect women (other than those that work for him; noblesse oblige, I suppose). This is worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan!
1 posted on 11/26/2017 2:25:25 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Conyers can now be the newest Lion of the Sinate


2 posted on 11/26/2017 2:27:24 PM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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To: Eleutheria5

Bring back the public post & pillory


3 posted on 11/26/2017 2:28:08 PM PST by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: Eleutheria5

Pelosi should be forced to wear Conyer’s underwear on her head.


4 posted on 11/26/2017 2:29:50 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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How can you tell Conyer’s underwear on someone’s head from a vagina hat?


5 posted on 11/26/2017 2:31:44 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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Conyers wears tightie whities.

Pussy hats are, well...pink.


6 posted on 11/26/2017 2:36:34 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Eleutheria5

BTW, Gilbert & Sullivan would never “do” the American left.

They would be too genteel for that.


7 posted on 11/26/2017 2:39:40 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Of course she does. The hypocrisy and lack of principle that led feminists to defend Bill Clinton and denounce his victims in the ‘90s are alive and well today.


8 posted on 11/26/2017 2:39:46 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Pelosi said Conyers deserves “due process.”

And what did she say about Roy Moore?


9 posted on 11/26/2017 2:40:33 PM PST by MarvinStinson (`1`)
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To: Eleutheria5

Has Pelosi called for Bush to be impeached yet. She thinks that he is still President


10 posted on 11/26/2017 2:50:30 PM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Eleutheria5

Nancy, you hypocritical statements are showing...


11 posted on 11/26/2017 2:54:27 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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That woman is dripping with stupidity. If it were, wait, she picks and chooses who should be sexual predators and they might be Republicans like Judge Moore but because Conyers is BLACK and a rebel rouser racist Demonrat, he gets a pass from Peeloosely. Go home you old hag. You’re NUTS!!!!


12 posted on 11/26/2017 2:57:03 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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13 posted on 11/26/2017 2:57:42 PM PST by eaglestar
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14 posted on 11/26/2017 2:58:55 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: Catmom

with the skid mark to the front


15 posted on 11/26/2017 3:00:14 PM PST by digger48
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To: Eleutheria5

What a joke!

Roy Moore needs to be drawn and quartered because of ALLEGTIONS, but Conyers needs due process. Not partisan. Nope. Not at all.

I hate Nancy Pelosi. She’s a crazy bitch and needs a mental exam.


16 posted on 11/26/2017 3:02:55 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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17 posted on 11/26/2017 3:06:43 PM PST by eaglestar
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Roy Moore needs to be drawn and quartered because of ALLEGTIONS, but Conyers needs due process.

Roy Moore isn't an "icon."

John Conyers is.

Who's an "icon" gets determined by Nutzy Pelosi, who is herself a "master legislator," by her own assessment.

I think a "master legislator" is superior to an "icon."

18 posted on 11/26/2017 3:09:06 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Eleutheria5

Take everything she says with a grain of LSD.


19 posted on 11/26/2017 3:10:41 PM PST by clearcarbon
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pe-LOUSE-i is the Dung Beetle of Politics
20 posted on 11/26/2017 3:17:04 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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