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Joe Biden name drops Packwood
By JONATHAN TOPAZ | 9/19/14 2:06 PM EDT
Vice President Joe Biden on Friday offered praise at a Democratic National Committee women event for retired Sen. Bob Packwood, who resigned amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.
Appearing at the DNCs Womens Leadership Forum in Washington, the vice president suggested that the modern Republican Party is out of touch with its principles, citing a previous generation of GOP lawmakers who worked with Democrats on issues like voting rights. Its Republicans that were involved. Guys like [former Maryland Republican Sen.] Mac Mathias and Packwood and so many others. It wasnt Democrats alone, he said.
In 1992, former Republican Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon was accused of sexual harassment by 10 female ex-staffers. Three years later, after the Senate Ethics Committee unanimously voted to recommend his expulsion from the chamber, Packwood resigned.
Bidens comments at the womens event came the same day the White House announced the Its On Us campaign targeting sexual assault on college campuses.
The vice president made headlines for misspeaking earlier in the week, using the term Shylocks and the Orient while speaking at an event in Iowa.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/joe-biden-bob-packwood-111148.html#ixzz3DnXUoE9p
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...He was born with a calloused foot in his mouth, but mistook it for silver.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)They come and go...resume padders.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)The recent incidents happened much closer together And wasn't a case of being caught while in a more private comment to another but speeches made for public.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)checked ahead of time for gaffes.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)The kids in Nebraska working for Domina and the NE state party knew nothing of the Franklin Cover Up, and they are trying to beat the repub nominee Ben Sasse who is tied to a few of those pedos and he was also in charge of page tutor!
One flyer in a mailbox about the sex with kids crap and the dem will win. None of them knew about it,,,they were not even born in the 80's!
Someone that I know educated them. Packwood is a creep, and just look at the GOP nom for US senate in Nebraska!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/106392
So why Harry Reid and the party not saying anything? They say Sasse is set to win. Look...just one third party flyer on this crap and he'll lose. So why are they standing down?????? Read that thread!