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In reply to the discussion: When you are silencing MY voice, I have a right to know your name (thoughts on Franken) [View all]traladeda
(48 posts)I agree with your assessment. The equation of putting your arm around someone while taking a pic and "grabbing" their waist with sexual harassment/assault by this accuser can easily be regarded as an overreaction, and that is the type of thing that topples a movement into irrelevancy. Nothing would please the right-wing more than for that to happen.
As you note, Al is/was physically affectionate, he was unaware it had been received badly. He won't be doing those things ever again.
He is entitled to an ethics investigation; hell, I'm entitled to it since I'm a constituent. I am so disappointed in the party leadership. They should be aggressively pursuing the ethics investigation making it VERY clear they will get to the truth. Show the right-wingers Dems aren't easy marks. If it's real, he can suffer those consequences; if it's a hit job, that will be revealed. Democrats have to start fighting back and stop fighting each other.