Posted on 11/29/2017 4:49:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
A North Texas woman says Rep. Joe Barton sent her inappropriate Facebook messages, including at least one exchange in which the congressman asked things like if she was wearing panties. The revelation comes a week after Barton apologized for a nude photo of him that circulated on social media.
Kelly Canon, an Arlington tea party organizer, said she and Barton have exchanged many Facebook messages.
"We would chat about 97 percent politics, and one percent A&M. The other percent he would ask what I was wearing. I though that was inappropriate, so I would shut it down," Canon said.
In one message exchange, Barton asked after midnight in June 2012 whether Canon was "wearing a tank top only ... and no panties."
Canon says she never completely shut down the communication, because she is politically active and wanted an open line of communication with her congressman. But she joined a group of other women at a meeting this week to encourage Barton not to run again after the nude photo that he sent to a woman appeared online.
Canon said she felt Barton's apology for the photo didn't go far enough, and she decided to make her own messages public.
"This is an effort not only to get him not to run again, but to get other people — but to get other women — to come forward, too," Canon said.
NBC 5 reached out to Barton's offices in both Ennis and Washington, and we have not received a response late Wednesday.
The Ellis County Republican Party released a statement about Barton, saying, "His lifestyle is inconsistent with Republican ideals, and he has brought disgrace not only to Ellis County and the 6th Congressional District, but also to the people of Texas and this great nation."
In the statement, they did not directly call for his resignation.
The framers of the constitution, when they drafted requirements for Congressional office, I guess should have included a requirement that pants be kept on.
This is women using an angle to remove men from power over unproven allegations. They are noping to remove them to put women into these open spots.
Texas A&M Barton is s an Aggie
She was flirting and playing sex games with him and set him up
>>>This is women using an angle to remove men from power over unproven allegations.
Yes, she was fine with him when he was able to advance her Tea Party agenda. She only chose to release the messages she received from him after he had been compromised by the earlier release of the photo.
Definitely it does. I bet most of the congresslosers and their staff are perverts and degenerates of one sort or another. Morals and integrity seem in short supply among that group of societal misfits.
Cheap Labor Express stooge, no loss.
Thanks. What I get out of that is that he was hitting on her she rejected him. If that’s illegal I hope there’s a statute of limitations (that has passed) or I could be Freepin from prison.
Kelly Canon is guilty of revenge porn. That’s illegal. Joe Barton is guilty of bad judgment. Not illegal and, sadly, a common characteristic for a politician.
Some of these women need to grow up and learn how to handle themselves.
Is there a revenge porn law in Texas? I didn’t think there was.
She was flirting and playing sex games with him and set him up
IMPORTANT TIP FOR POLITICIANS:
When she asks you to send that dicpic and make sure your face is visible, MAYBE JUST MAYBE think twice about following through.
Agreed. But this is a straight up creepy stab in the back. He was out of his marriage, and in the divorce process. He was seeing this woman and they bedded down.
She didn’t become the next Mrs Congressman and just released their private stuff.
I’d like him replaced for political reasons. But she’s a low life who deserves her cats for companionship.
“Some of these women need to grow up and learn how to handle themselves.
And some of these men need to learn how to handle themselves more privately.”
There will always be jerks. One of Lauer’s accusers said he told her to unbutton her blouse, which she did, and then he bent her over his desk and had sex with her (she was even married). Why did she participate? There was apparently no force involved. She just did it, and now, some time later, she is complaining about it. I don’t get it. There are lines you don’t cross, even to keep your job.
Yes, I can understand how a man would NOT understand that timidity some women have. I had it when I was yunger, and I’m still fairly sensitive but grew stronger with age. Very few (but probably some) young men would bend over and let their famous male boss have his way with them. But many women would be terrified not to. It’s just the truth. It’s why we do need men protecting us. And it wouldn’t only be for the job. She’d be too scared to push the confrontation or to even hear the threat.
The kind of terror a little girl feels over small things like a spider is real. I’ve had three sons before a daughter came along and this girl thing is so different.
“The former employee, who was in her 40s at the time, said Lauer first made advances towards her while covering a story away from their New York headquarters in the late 1990s.”
This woman was in her 40s when this happened. It sounds like she made a conscious decision to participate, and now, almost 20 years later, wants to make a complaint. From the news reports he didn’t force her, there’s no allegation of a “do this or your fired”, she just...went along with it. That’s what I am having a very hard time understanding.
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