Next wave of D.C. harassment allegations anticipated

[FarCenter]

Members of Congress with histories of mistreating women should be extremely nervous. Major outlets, including CNN, are dedicating substantial newsroom resources to investigating sexual harassment allegations against numerous lawmakers. A Republican source told me he's gotten calls from well-known D.C. reporters who are gathering stories about sleazy members.

Bottom line: Democratic Sen. Al Franken is the very tip of the congressional iceberg. Many more stories are coming and we wouldn't be surprised if they end several careers.

https://www.axios.com/next-wave-of-d-c-harassment-allegations-2510878240.html

[LisaL]

1. New trials by the media are coming?

I guess that's the thing now.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. I say bring it... high time we stop protecting these abusers of women.

[LisaL]

4. Press is publishing stories, that could be quite old, with no way to determine

if it actually happened or not. If they are false, what recourse does the accused have? No actual evidence is necessary. But yea, lets go for it, cause that's how we roll now.

[FarCenter]

6. But those stories attract eyeballs that can be sold to advertisers.

[LisaL]

7. At the expense of someone's reputation and career.

[Not Ruth]

3. One of the definitions of Congress is a penis being inserted into a vagina

Makes you wonder how predictable this all was

[Lurks Often]

5. Expect a lot of accusations shortly before the 2018 election

and this applies to both parties. The accusations will come out early enough to affect an election, but too late for the subject of the accusation to be able to adequately defend themselves.

[LisaL]

8. But republicans don't seem to care when their candidate is accused.

Trump still got elected, and most likely Moore will get elected. So only democrats will end up paying for whatever it is they are accused of doing.

[Lurks Often]

9. I disagree

I have not kept current on all of the details involving the AL election, but Moore is likely to be elected because AL is a very red state, not all of the voters are believing the accusations and because even if the allegations are true, the majority of AL voters would still rather elect Moore, a Republican accused of sexual assault, instead of Jones because Moore will vote the way the majority of voters want.


Putting it a different way, there are a number of voters who would vote for a pro-choice candidate, who has allegations of sexual assault against them, rather then a pro-life candidate who doesn't have any allegations against them. Of course this applies to any number of other issues voters feel strongly about.