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Claire McCaskill: I was sexually harassed as an intern in Congress
Washington Examiner ^
| 11/14/2017
| by Laura Barrón-López
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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: clairemccaskill; fakenews; sexualharassment
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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.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:23:17 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Enough of the mindless rants of the obtuse.)
To: SeekAndFind
She won’t say....because...wait for it...it was a DEMOCRAT!!!! PROBABLY.
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:23:38 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
To: SeekAndFind
Somebody must have been very hard up!
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:25:04 PM PST
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: SeekAndFind
If she doesnt name names it didnt happen
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:25:25 PM PST
by
McGavin999
("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:25:27 PM PST
by
cp124
(FUGOPe)
To: SeekAndFind
ROTFL! He must have been one really sick, horny bass turd. A “democrat”.
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:25:38 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
To: PhiloBedo
She’s too ugly to harass.
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:26:00 PM PST
by
bagster
(Mama tried to raise me better.)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
And now she’s a Senator.
She slept her way to the top?
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:26:30 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SeekAndFind
Did someone touch your princess parts in the 1970s?
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:26:35 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:28:23 PM PST
by
Kozak
(DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:29:16 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: goodnesswins
Ouch! Only a democrat would touch her! Ugly is as ugly does!!
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:29:27 PM PST
by
foundedonpurpose
(Prayers for all God's People! Salvation & Restoration!)
To: SeekAndFind
i never knew there were any blind congressmen
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:30:10 PM PST
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: SeekAndFind
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.
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:30:18 PM PST
by
gaijin
(Basically Obama lawyers would blatantly make up some totally groundless allegation against a fat cas)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:31:17 PM PST
by
heartwood
(Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:33:52 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: BenLurkin
"And now shes a Senator." The experience was so terrible she couldn't wait to get back.
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posted on
11/14/2017 7:33:55 PM PST
by
Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
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