Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has said before that she was harassed when she was a legislator in Missouri's statehouse, but the harassment she experienced as an intern in Washington appears to be a new disclosure.
Posted on 11/14/2017 7:22:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Sen. Claire McCaskill on Tuesday said she was sexually harassed when she interned in Congress more than 40 years ago.
The Missouri Democrat made the disclosure to reporters when asked if she thinks the environment is changing on Capitol Hill, given increased calls by lawmakers for mandated training to prevent sexual harassment.
"Well I don't know, I will tell you I interned here in college and I was definitely sexually harassed as an intern in Congress back in the summer of 1974," McCaskill said, standing just off the Senate floor. "I was definitely sexually harassed."
McCaskill has said before that she was harassed when she was a legislator in Missouri's statehouse, but the harassment she experienced as an intern in Washington appears to be a new disclosure.
Asked later if she was harassed by a fellow staffer or member of the U.S. House, McCaskill didn't want to say.
"I'm not going to comment as to details of it, but suffice it to say that it happened more than once from more than one person," McCaskill said.
She never reported the harassment and noted that she didn't report the harassment she experienced in the Missouri statehouse.
"Because whenever you're in a position where you have very little to no power, it is very hard to imagine yourself taking on somebody who is very powerful and the system that made him powerful," she said. "So it was something that felt like I had to choose between my career and coming forward.
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Was her name Butch?
She won’t say....because...wait for it...it was a DEMOCRAT!!!! PROBABLY.
Somebody must have been very hard up!
By her late husband?
If she doesn’t name names it didn’t happen
Jeff Sessions
ROTFL! He must have been one really sick, horny bass turd. A “democrat”.
She’s too ugly to harass.
Fat chance.
And now she’s a Senator.
She slept her way to the top?
Did someone touch your princess parts in the 1970s?
In her dreams.
Bless her heart.
Ouch! Only a democrat would touch her! Ugly is as ugly does!!
i never knew there were any blind congressmen
Hollywood libs did this, and you know WHO will pay the price.
NORMIE WOMEN:
Cuz after the punishment gets meeted out on normie MEN, no women will ever get asked out again.
Guys will just play it safe and keep their jobs, etc.
Was she alone?
The experience was so terrible she couldn't wait to get back.
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