If this were a manager trolling for sexual response in an office setting among a company full of female employees, that manager could be charged with harrassment by one female, and the serial harrassment by the manager of the others could be used as evidence in proving the case of the lady making leveling the charge.
The serious nature is that the manager held power over those women, and the system would not view favorably his abuse of power. He and his company would be liable for millions. He could go to jail.
In the instance of Weiner, he identified himself as a powerful sitting congressman. Is not the "company" of which he is a part the US of A? Does his power not intimidate when he is seen on TV wielding that power and when stories abound of those who've paid horribly for angering politicians or other powerful people?
I believe his "partners" were intimidated, and I think they should charge him and sue both him and his employer for sexual harrassment and predation. They should argue that his power was intimidating, and they should show the number of women harrassed as evidence of his predation.
Great Point!
I thought Breitbart had a good point as well. He said that we should worry about the ability of someone to blackmail weiner if they had this info and the public didn't know. We can see from weiner's subsequent actions how important having power is to him. What happens with a congressman like this that gets on a committee that gets highly classified briefings. If a foreign power has this information would he sell out this country to keep his power?