Posted on 11/29/2017 10:14:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) exhibited mounting frustration Wednesday with the inaction on Capitol Hill in light of the recent sexual allegations. She has called for the resignation of both Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and even walked out of the House Democrats’ morning conference meeting saying harassment wasn’t being addressed seriously. “I don’t have time for meetings that aren’t real,” she told reporters.
Rep. Kathleen Rice leaves House Dem meeting early, saying harassment wasn’t being addressed seriously. “I don’t have time for meetings that aren’t real.” pic.twitter.com/hoB6lAmBqX— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 29, 2017
Rice asked House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) Wednesday to release one of Conyers’s accusers from her confidentiality agreement which was part of a $27,000 settlement in 2015.
Rice argues that since the accuser “attempted to seek help through a deeply flawed system” she “should not continue to be silenced by the institution that failed to protect her in the first place.”
“Under the settlement, the complainant was forced into a non-disclosure agreement and has been unable to openly discuss the workplace harassment and abuse she was subjected to,” Rep. Rice writes, “while Rep. Conyers and his attorney, Arnold Reed, have been free to make their case to the public.”
“Three additional women (Maria Reddick, Melanie Sloan, and Deanna Maher) have been able to speak publicly about harassment by Rep. Conyers because they chose not to pursue a complaint through a system that is now universally acknowledged to be stacked against the victim,” she added.
“Mr. Reed has made clear his client will not release the former employee from the agreement, and it is unclear whether the Office of Compliance, the House Ethics Committee, House Employment Counsel, or some combination of the three has the authority to do so,” Rice concludes. “As Speaker of the House, I urge you to immediately intervene to right this wrong. The woman named in the settlement agreement with Rep. Conyers deserves the opportunity to tell her story and I ask you to swiftly intercede on her behalf.”
Speaker Ryan and prominent GOP leaders held a press conference Wednesday addressing the issue of sexual harassment and announcing an upcoming vote on a resolution that requires mandatory training for members, staff, and interns on appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
"Sexual harassment has no place in any workplace -- let alone the United States Congress," Ryan said.
Conyers is 88 years old. Let him retire.
Conyers to Rice: “Make me a sammich!”
While I was a DOD employee, we had mandatory POSH (prevention of sexual harassment) training, yearly. It was taken very seriously in the workplace.
How do these slimeballs in Congress get out of it?
Basic instruction on how not to get caught messing with your staff.
This ploy will effectively immunize them against any claims made prior to the training. Is that a good thing?
Congress usually exempts themselves from laws that might cramp their style.
I’d say it isn’t likely.
New woman in town (HRC swears in New Nassau County DA - both women “steely in pantsuits”)
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Posted on 01/10/2006 1:09:13 AM PST by presidio9
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“This ploy will effectively immunize them against any claims made prior to the training. Is that a good thing?”
I am not sure that immunity for past sins will be available as a consequence of training. Furthermore, I don’t think you can “unring the bell” in this area what will the continuing daily revelations of misconducts coming out. The people have got it now, and if both houses of Congress know what’s good for them, they will root out and expose all of it or have to face an electorate that has had it with “the swamp.”
It’s the War on Women!
She a Democrat......never trust them
What a freakin’ loathsome soap opera the whole damn Wash DC Swamp has become.
Feminists are taking the final step to conquering the Democrat Party and owning it.
I doubt it....
I didn't get my point across, obviously.
Training is futile, since we all know you're not supposed to grope the help. This is a bureaucratic attempt to "unring the bell", as you say - to look like you're doing something while doing nothing.
"Now that we're trained, we all see the error of our ways and we'll all behave. All that stuff that happened before is in the past, irrelevant."
Immunized.
“”Sexual harassment has no place in any workplace — let alone the United States Congress,” Ryan said.”
I agree 100%. this kind of crap was NEVER tolerated at any job I ever worked at, going all the way back to 1970 ...
BINGO!
“Now that we’re trained, we all see the error of our ways and we’ll all behave. All that stuff that happened before is in the past, irrelevant.”
Immunized.”
But not immune from prosecution was where I was going. I worked as a senior manager in several Silicon Valley Cos. They were aways doing this $hit, because their HR departments were run by liberal loons. The real problem is that it’s impossible to categorize human behavior sufficiently in these seminars.
Zuckerberg and the younger Democrats are simply using the sex abuses by the Democratic “old guard” as a way to non-violently clean house.
Out goes the ancient dinosaurs. In come the new generation of young Democrats to replace them. All from safe seats.
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