Posted on 12/26/2017 10:26:47 AM PST by Kaslin
The sexual harassment reckoning has exposed many men in positions of power for their bad behavior. Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin and others have either been fired or suspended for sexual misconduct. In the political realm, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is resigning in early January after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) made his way to the exit after his sexual harassment allegations made it into the limelight; he paid $27,000 to settle a claim in 2015. And yes, that’s our money he used for that expenditure. This reached a boiling point during the Roy Moore fiasco in Alabama, where the Republican senate candidate was accused of sexually molesting and assaulting multiple women when they were teenagers. Yet, Conyers and Franken blunted the attacks on Moore and the GOP. The left flank on the Democratic attack line was vulnerable with Conyers and Franken still in the mix. Once Conyers decided to exit, the dam broke for Franken, who grudgingly decided to leave the Senate, though he did so while refusing to apologize for his actions and called his accusers liars.
Yet, in deep blue California, the progressive mecca of the country, Democrats behaving badly has thrown the state party into turmoil . It’s already cost them their supermajority in the state legislature and it could impact the 2018 plans as well.
On top of those worries, we now have Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) reportedly showing "zero interest" by reports that his congressional offices had become hostile environments. In the state Assembly proper, Matt Dababneh has decided to exit by January 1 after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment, one of which included a 2016 incident at a wedding, where the assemblyman began masturbating in front of one of his accusers. He isn’t the first to leave over allegations of sexual misconduct; Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra has already resigned. State Sen. Tony Mendoza remains in office, but he also faces accusations from multiple women. He has since been stripped of his leadership posts. In light of this behavior, Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, chairwoman of the California Democratic Party Women’s Caucus, took a notably different approach than her mother, who called Conyers an "icon, saying that that California Capitol has rapists and molesters walking among them. Ms. Pelosi has called for more action to address this problem (via Politico):
Scandal-induced resignations will cost California’s Democratic Party its supermajority in the state Legislature at least temporarily next year, and the fallout is spilling into the 2018 elections. It’s scrambling calculations for some of the state’s most powerful politicians in Sacramento, and even House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was caught in the fray when she defended now former-Rep. John Conyers last month as an “icon.”
“We’re in unchartered territory here,” said Garry South, a veteran Democratic strategist who advised former California Gov. Gray Davis. “This whole issue has hit a critical mass in a very short time. I’ve never seen anything like it before — and I don’t know where it ends.”
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Among those who have been outspoken in their demands for more action is Christine Pelosi, chairwoman of the California Democratic Party Women’s Caucus and Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, who told lawmakers at the start of an Assembly hearing last month, “We have rapists in this building. We have molesters among us.”
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… Los Angeles-area Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman has been caught in the glare of the Dababneh headlines. A report from McClatchy published last week featured eight former aides saying that the environment in Sherman's D.C. and California offices was “toxic” – and that the congressman was oblivious to the problem. “’Congressman Sherman showed zero interest in the personal well-being of his staffers and there's no reason to believe he would have cared or taken any action if a complaint was made,' said one former staffer,’’ McClatchy reported. Sherman insisted his staff never complained about his former aide’s sexual behavior.
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And outside of the California Legislature, radio executive and University of California trustee Norman Pattiz, who was first appointed by Davis and reappointed by Brown, has come under pressure to resign after tape surfaced of him asking comedian Heather McDonald if he could hold her breasts. In a separate incident last week, Craig Cheslog, a California Democratic Party regional director from the Bay Area, resigned amid accusations of sexual misconduct.
Cheslog said in his resignation letter that he was confident of the outcome of a “fair, fact-based exploration of this matter” but that he wanted to “prevent any allegations of personal misconduct against me from creating a distraction within the party at a critical moment in national and state politics.”
Of course, this problem crosses party lines. That is not in dispute. The Left can’t argue War on Women anymore—they have some of the biggest creeps in the country voting and supporting Democrats. What is telling is the reaction. It took nearly a month before Democrats decided to put significant pressure on Franken and Conyers to leave in order to have a clean slate to launch attacks on Republicans. For other Democrats, it’s become clear that the ‘I’m a liberal who votes the right way’ is no longer a lifeboat, as it was for Bill Clinton who has been credibly accused of rape. It was that 90s moment when we saw explicitly that feminism was for and only accepted liberals into their ranks, and that they would anything to ensure those faithful officeholders remained in power, even if they did allegedly committed rape. Gloria Steinem can hold her head up high. Democrats enabled this behavior. So, this come to Jesus moment were seeing from the Left regarding sexual harassment should be taken with a grain of salt. The GOP should clean house of its creepers as well, but the media will always find a way to make this a Republican, or a conservative problem (it’s not), as they always have. The hypocrisy is going to become unbearable when the Left comes after President Trump over his sexual misconduct allegations and act holier than thou, as if to disregard the fact that Democrats voted for a credibly accused rapist for president—twice. Yet, that's a battle for another time. For now, the sexual harassment problem ensnaring the California Democratic Party continues to ripple throughout the state.
Christine Pelosi has accused the Democrat Party in California for hiding and covering up many sex scandals by Democrat lawmakers, and she has threatened to expose them. Interesting that Christine is the opposite of her mother, who wanted to continue to hide the scandals
It's a generational thing. They have the same goal, more or less.
Nancy wants Dem control, but along traditional lines. Kennedy-type leaders are allowed, if they're discreet and mouth the right attitudes.
Christine's idea of the Democrat Party consists of militant women, with a few impotent eunochs for variety.
FILE - This Thursday, May 4, 2017 file photo Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-Pacoima, speaks at the Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif. Two sitting lawmakers face public accusations of harassment, Bocanegra and Sen. Tony Mendoza, both Los Angeles-area Democrats. Bocanegra was disciplined for sexual harassment in 2009, when he was an Assembly chief of staff. He apologized, but the Los Angeles Times has since revealed six other women are accusing him of behavior including groping and other unwanted advances, including one alleged incident when he was in office. Rich Pedroncelli,File AP Photo
Excerpted go to link below to find out more about the Perverts in Sacramento/Ca Capital!
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article186363668.html
A couple of years ago, an amazing story came out about a backlog of testing the DNA results of rape kits in the state of California to DNA analysis and to identify the rapists.
The state of California that can afford bullet trains and being a sanctuary state, doesn’t have money for DNA tests on rape kits to identify the rapists.
My wife is in a mixed group of lady friends, who met once a month, discuss events and play some cards. This issue came up for discussion in that group 2 years and again last August after nothing has been done.
There are two recently retired RN’s in that group. My wife who retired recently after 35 years as the head RN in an upscale FP Group. The other was an ER nurse for 40 years.
So, when one of the other women asked the question what was happening, and why there was no money to do DNA tests on the rape kits.
The two RNs had two differing answers:
1. My wife felt that guys with power and money, including the law makers were making sure that funding for the DNA testing didn’t happen.
2. The former ER RN said so many of the women reporting rape were illegals and raped by illegals. So big money didn’t want that data out. Also, the rape victims were illegals and were raped by other illegals or by bosses, fellow employees and guys on the high end of the social ladders.
Again the elites and powerful in California didn’t want the rapists identified by their DNA.
So, in one of the wealthiest states in America, California, the funding for DNA identification of the rapists in Rape cases has never been approved by Moonbeam and his thugs.
One might conclude that they don’t want the rapists in California identifed for some reason.
What could that reason be?
Conyers is an “Icon” to the Democratic Party.
They need to own it—all of it...
California, like USG and most states, is utterly bankrupt. Its obligations vastly exceed its ability to pay.
And yet... billions for illegals, trains to nowhere, etc.
Yet, for decades, we (the people) were told that the behavior of rich and powerful liberal men is a private matter, and that it has no bearing on their work for the public.
The same people telling us this, of course, are the same people who pay women to make accusations against conservative men.
Now, suddenly, the liberal misogynists who have gotten away with this behavior for eons are no longer tolerated. I like to think that it’s because the CIC—the man who sets the tone for the culture—does not tolerate that kind of treatment of women.
Travis County (Austin, TX) is years behind on their DNA cases too and since they are a Sanctuary City, maybe they have the same dynamic about not wanting to ID rapists.
We got the marauding politicians on the run, the Peckerwood denizens in rehab, the media bums fired, the musical molesters off-key..........
.......let us now go after academia.........
Can you imagine all those nubile young students and the twitching penises and roaming hands among the oversexed lefties?
We need to determine the number of lefties that promised students good grades in exchange for sex.
“Travis County (Austin, TX) is years behind on their DNA cases too and since they are a Sanctuary City, maybe they have the same dynamic about not wanting to ID rapists.”
Austin, San Francisco of Texas.
You are probably correct.
Makes one wonder if this might be a pattern in blue cities/counties and blue states.
California democrats also think it’s okay to have a republican female senator DRAGGED out of the statehouse .....Her name is JANET NGUYEN and the democrat who ordered it is KEVIN DE LEON....
California democrats also think it’s okay to have a republican female senator DRAGGED out of the statehouse .....Her name is JANET NGUYEN and the democrat who ordered it is KEVIN DE LEON....
Careful, you might heat up the snowflakes in college and melt them with your words!
“Can you imagine all those nubile young students and the twitching penises and roaming hands among the oversexed lefties?”
Melt snowflakes? I LOVED doing that as a kid. (smirk)
The Left can’t argue War on Women anymore—they have some of the biggest creeps in the country voting and supporting Democrats. What is telling is the reaction. It took nearly a month before Democrats decided to put significant pressure on Franken and Conyers to leave in order to have a clean slate to launch attacks on Republicans. For other Democrats, it’s become clear that the ‘I’m a liberal who votes the right way’ is no longer a lifeboat, as it was for Bill Clinton who has been credibly accused of rape. It was that 90s moment when we saw explicitly that feminism was for and only accepted liberals into their ranks, and that they would [do] anything to ensure those faithful officeholders remained in power, even if they did allegedly committed rape... Democrats enabled this behavior... the media will always find a way to make this a Republican, or a conservative problem (it’s not), as they always have.The media did that for Slick -- and continues to.
The obvious solution is to vote even further left.
[Yet, for decades, we (the people) were told that the behavior of rich and powerful liberal men is a private matter, and that it has no bearing on their work for the public.]
Ah yes, I seem to recall “it was just about sex” back in the late 90’s.
“Of course, this problem crosses party lines. That is not in dispute.”
And THERE — as a sop to the left — is the “they all do it” equivocation of the day.
While the problem does cross party lines, it is a sin of commission to deceptively portray that the impact is equal on both sides of the aisle. In plain fact, it’s not at all true that Democrats and Republicans are equally represented among the ranks of the offenders. The tallied fallen weigh heavily to the left, overwhelmingly so when media personalities are included in the count.
If there’s any “they all do it” notion to be invoked, here, it is likely tied to the observation that those GOP lawmakers caught up in this mostly reek of The Swamp; there isn’t evidence that this misbehavior is running at epidemic levels among true Conservatives.
I don’t think it’s intentional but rather causational. Democrats coddle criminals. Therefore, they don’t like to put them behind bars where they can’t vote for Democrats. Since DNA testing is expensive and, in their minds, counterproductive to getting re-elected, they just don’t make DNA testing a big budgetary item or priority. Thus, it falls further and further behind until they find a case they *want* to solve and then realize how bad the backlog is.
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