Democrats senator and firm women’s rights advocate Kirsten Gillibrand has called on her fellow senator, Al Franken, to resign.
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Big: @SenGillibrand says "Senator Franken should step aside" in Facebook post https://t.co/biy2JJUkys
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) December 6, 2017
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"While Senator Franken is entitled to have the Ethics Committee conclude its review, I believe it would be better for our country if he sent a clear message that any kind of mistreatment of women in our society isn’t acceptable by stepping aside to let someone else serve." https://t.co/4bysdL9LFo
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) December 6, 2017
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This news comes as a shock, as it was only yesterday that Gillibrand refused to say if Franken should resign.
This, despite saying she believes Franken’s accusers.
“I believe the women,” Gillibrand declared, just one day prior to another accusation of forcible kissing has come to light. “I believe that what they said happened happened.”
“All of it is unacceptable,” she added, and “we should not have people in Congress that act this way.”
Still, on the matter of Franken’s resignation specifically, when pressed for a yes or no, Gillibrand said: “I’m so angry and frustrated, and I’m not going to say that today.”
What?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkHcbDq627c
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‘We shouldn’t have people like this in Congress’ but I’m not ready to say a person like this in Congress should resign?
The waffling over an ally in Congress is no surprise for Gillibrand. While she portrays herself as a champion of sexual harassment victims, she is no more so than Elizabeth Warren is of Cherokee heritage. At least she made up for it with her call on Franken to resign.
It is long past time to end the culture of secrecy that protects predators and keeps victims of sexual harassment from coming forward. https://t.co/WKOwzTkMVE
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) December 5, 2017
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The problem with that is, Gillibrand famously remained silent in New York State as then-Democrat Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver was paying off victims of harassment using taxpayer money.
New York Democrats had a slush fund to pay off harassment claims long before Congress had theirs discovered this year.
“Kirsten Gillibrand is promoting Albany’s culture of corruption, and putting her political and personal interests ahead of young professional women,” her opponent, Wendy Long, accused in 2012.
In 2014, reports surfaced that Silver had forked over $100,000 to a pair of victims of former Democrat Assemblyman Vito Lopez, which then ballooned into $700,000 of legal fees to fight the women who said his actions were tantamount to “encouraging” the behavior.
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Gillibrand never uttered a word of complaint in Silver’s direction. In fact, she repeatedly called Silver ‘the perfect person to represent New York.’
“How can Kirsten Gillibrand hold herself out as an advocate for women, but stand silently by as hush money is used to silence victims of sexual assault?” Long asked.
Gillibrand on Franken to @anniekarni:
“reckoning”
“accountability now”
“wrong”
“that kind of behavior can’t be tolerated anywhere”But won’t say he should resign.
“I’m not going to say that today.”
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) December 5, 2017
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It’s simple – One set of rules for Democrats accused of sexual misconduct, another set for Republicans.
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Gillibrand made the right call, but is still a partisan hack, willing to look away from victims of sexual harassment if it will further her political aspirations in 2020.
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They had a need for this dufus once and desperately so. Remember the trunk load of ballots
that was “discovered” after the polls closed? The ones that assured him to get in? They needed
his vote to push Obummer care in. At the present they have no use for this clown as they are already overstaffed with them.
If these women truly were violated by the Hobbit they should have spoke up and said something at the time,He more than likely did something perverted to these gals but at this point in time its hearsay at best
What those who are really saying – by saying that they believe his accusers but do not think he should resign is – that they are willing to sell these women out to get what “they” want.
Kristin Gillibrand is a partisan hack. She also is a very dangerous women that will go to any lengths to further herself as a future candidate for any position she sets her sights on,, Senator, or POTUS. Look up her voting record. She does not care for two way discussions on any issue that does not benefit her, or the Dems. She’s a puppet for Schumer. Her West coast partner in crime is Kamela Harris. She might be even more dangerous to the country because she’s married to a wealthy Lawyer with plenty of money. She is also biracial which is a big factor in many voters mindset and in politics at the present time. No racism meant here, just facts. Harris is a radical left antagonist that disrespects anyone that is white and male.
You could cover all this by saying she is a left wing hack.
“These allegations are both persistent and disturbing,” the two leaders said in a joint statement. “We have no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but the seriousness of the allegations, and the weight of circumstantial information, compel an effort to establish the facts.” Democrat talking points. Except now Franken has photos and his admission. Not really Allegations.
Great! Now release all the names of the harassers that used up $17 million tax-payer dollars for harassing people. Make them pay us back, then kick them out.
I am tired of reading about all this B/S. It has gone on all these years, & the women just seemed to accept it as normal part of a man’s makeup. I think it good the women let it be known, they are no longer going to treat this as normal character for a natural man. What bothers me is the way the democrats & republicans, try to politicize this & really try to use it against a Christian man like Moore or especially anyone they want to replace with someone like themselves. I has gone on for years, I don’t expect these women to stop it now, but kadoos to them for trying.
I call for all democrats to step down for covering for Bill Clinton…just saying the women would be safer…period!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoyvvEWHodk
Gillibrand was in the same assembly as another new york democrat. They had a comparable set up, tax dollars to squash women’s complaint of sexual assault/abuse and rape.
That was then.
Today, Gillibrand has seen evidence of al Franken’s behavior, and she has condemned it. She believes her own eyes, as I believed mine when I saw the pictures, and heard the complaints.
Sure, he will want to stay in the cat bird seat, power, prestige and authority are potent draws to a man who was never more than a jokester and a gropper. Al Franken could do the right thing and resign, and run again if he trusts his constituency. He will not, and until he is forced, things will go one as before. We just need to assign him an office, removed from the other offices, deny him any access to female staffers and assign him a transgendered police officer to insure he is never with in touching range or is caught leering at a woman. America will not be better served, but the women who come into contact with him might be safer.
Al needs a new office — in the Grey Bar Motel!!