Posted on 11/26/2017 8:37:07 AM PST by markomalley
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defended embattled Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers Sunday, calling the 88-year-old congressman “an icon.”
NBC’s Chuck Todd asked Pelosi on “Meet the Press” Sunday whether Conyers, who faces sexual harassment allegations, should be “in or out” of Congress.
“We are strengthened by due process. Just because someone is accused — and was it one accusation? Is it two?” Pelosi replied. “John Conyers is an icon in our country. He has done a great deal to protect women — Violence Against Women Act, which the left — right-wing — is now quoting me as praising him for his work on that, and he did great work on that.”
The congresswoman continued on to say that she believes Conyers “will do the right thing.”
It was revealed last week that taxpayers footed the bill for a $27,000 settlement for a staffer of Conyers that claimed the Michigan Democrat made sexual advances on her and fired her after she wouldn’t “succumb” to them.
“In her complaint, the former employee said Conyers repeatedly asked her for sexual favors and often asked her to join him in a hotel room. On one occasion, she alleges that Conyers asked her to work out of his room for the evening, but when she arrived the congressman started talking about his sexual desires,” BuzzFeed revealed in its report. “She alleged he then told her she needed to ‘touch it,’ in reference to his penis, or find him a woman who would meet his sexual demands.”
The report said that four signed affidavits from former staff members said that Conyers made sexual advances on female staff.
Additionally, Melanie Sloan, a lawyer who worked with Conyers, said that she would encounter the congressman in his office “walking around in his underwear.” And a former staffer, who anonymously filed and then withdrew a lawsuit, said that Conyers touched her “repeatedly and daily” from May to to July 2016.
Conyers, the longest serving congressman, has denied all sexual harassment allegations against him.
The House Ethics Committee has launched a probe into Conyers’ alleged misconduct. The accusations against him come against the backdrop of a wave of prominent men being accused of sexual misdeeds including Democratic Sen. Al Franken, Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore and newsman Charlie Rose.
Ok, so if you are a liberal icon, you can do whatever the hell you want. You can payoff people, bury potential scandal with secretive payouts, you may actually have done the actions alleged, but if you are a liberal icon, that’s ok.
But if you are conservative, any allegation, no matter what sort of allegation, no matter how old, no matter how unbelievable, must be assumed to be true, and said person is said to be unfit for public office. But only because he is conservative, not because of the seriousness of any offense or allegations made.
Fixed it.
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So, as far as Pelosi is concerned, as long as someone is Democrat, black and an “icon” he can sexually harass anyone he wants to inflict himself upon.
Good to know.
> “We are strengthened by due process... <
I didn’t watch the Pelosi interview (doctor’s orders). But a good journalist would have asked Pelosi this follow-up question: Does Roy Moore also deserve that due process?
Some animals are more equal than others.
conyers is old school idiot long before the new crop Sheila, Al and the other members of the Black Caucus. He represents poor area which has not improved during his long tenure a big example of how democrats don’t give a rats ass about black people, including black political leaders.
An icon in underwear.
That’s the face of the democrat party.
Bingo wonder how much money is in his deep freezer?.
So was Harvey Weinstein.
Too big Democrat to fail?
-PJ
40 year old accusations with no evidence or fact. BAN THE REPUBLICAN. HE MUST RESIGN. HE WILL NOT BE SEATED.
Democrat congressman that recent settled sexual harassment and sexual assault complaints with TAXPAYER MONEY? HE IS AN ICON!!!
Icon, yeah, just like another Dem icon... Teddy Kennedy. Just like that, eh Nancy?
Yes, a phallic icon.
These arrogant corrupt politicians have gone from public servants to icons and celebrities.
Fill the swamp with gas and light it.
HYPOCRITE!!!
Roughly translated, the words of the aging crone dingbat mean: “there is no problem on our side even with proof but your side is despicable and needs to be called every filthy name without proof”. Time for the nursing home.
“Icon” is Latin for “House N*****.”
The hypocrites are at it again. The democratic feminists sacrificing women to keep their cause going.. Trash..
awesome. Monday the house should start an ethics inquiry, and DOJ should launch an investigation of law breaking/ Let the “due process” start.
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