Posted on 12/16/2017 4:17:42 PM PST by simpson96
WASHINGTON — Andrea Ramsey, a Democratic candidate for Congress, will drop out of the race after the Kansas City Star asked her about accusations in a 2005 lawsuit that she sexually harassed and retaliated against a male subordinate who said he had rejected her advances.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the case told The Star that the man reached a settlement with LabOne, the company where Ramsey was executive vice president of human resources. Court documents show that the man, Gary Funkhouser, and LabOne agreed to dismiss the case permanently after mediation in 2006.
Ramsey, a 56-year-old retired business executive from Leawood, was one of the Democratic candidates vying to challenge Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder in 2018 in Kansas’ 3rd District.
She was running with the endorsement of Emily’s List, a liberal women’s group that has raised more than a half-million dollars to help female candidates who support abortion rights.
Ramsey will drop out on Friday, her campaign said.
“In its rush to claim the high ground in our roiling national conversation about harassment, the Democratic Party has implemented a zero tolerance standard,” Ramsey said in a statement Friday. “For me, that means a vindictive, terminated employee’s false allegations are enough for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to decide not to support our promising campaign. We are in a national moment where rough justice stands in place of careful analysis, nuance and due process.”
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Fess up to it lady.
you honked his weenie, dinja?
Double edge swords require careful wielding.
She said the allegations were false. Didn’t you get the memo? FEMALES NEVER LIE!
Frenched his fry.
clinton would hump her.....so would Bill.
Well, at least the potted plants were safe.
She can't be a Democrat. She actually seems to have an understanding of this whole harassment thing.
New tagline, reflecting a random thought that occurred to me while reading over this.
Happy to see a dem fail for the good of the human race, but this is BAD BAD BAD stuff going down where anyone can claim anything and destroy a career. Has to stop. Hopefully this case will make women say that this new found power is not a good power and can strike them just like it can strike a man.
I don’t know if she did it or didn’t do it and obviously I don’t agree with her politics, but she’s right about this:
“We are in a national moment where rough justice stands in place of careful analysis, nuance and due process.”
More like KARMA golden anniversary!
Everything that maters is mostly nuance.
I’m so sorry to hear that..../s
You just broke the internet! :)
Nice 80s find!
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