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[Mega Thread] The all encompassing sexual misconduct thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Cohete Rojo, Nov 30, 2017.

  1. Cohete Rojo

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    Just all around creepy.

     
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    Typical of such a place seen as a "liberal bastion". Not trying to get political, just commenting.

     
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    Liberals can't be racist.
    Liberals can't be sexual harassers.

    I've heard it all here on ClutchFans.


     
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    hell yes, burn it down

     
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    I'm not sure you actually heard any of that on Clutchfans. I'd like you to point out where you heard that on Clutchfans. Maybe you did, and I missed it. On the other hand, you do have a habit of attributing things to posters they never actually claimed or were arguing.
     
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    Where's the ignorant guy with the pipe in his picture from whom you often post tweets? Surely he has something to say about all of this?
     
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    Misleading thread title. It should read, "Cohete Rojo's All Encompassing Google Search of Non-GOP Sexual Misconduct" articles.

    I guess we should balance the ledger here but we all know that is not his intent. Sort of like his "weather" threads.

    TRANSPARENT
     
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    Female aides fretted Franks wanted to have sex to impregnate them
    By Steven Shepard
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    New details about the controversy surrounding Rep. Trent Franks come as sexual harassment allegations have engulfed Capitol Hill. He became the third lawmaker this week alone to announce that he will step down after being accused of sexual misconduct. | John Shinkle/POLITICO

    The congressman was seeking a pregnancy surrogate, and aides said he approached them for the assignment.

    Arizona Rep. Trent Franks allegedly made unwanted advances toward female staffers in his office and retaliated against one who rebuffed him, according to House GOP sources with knowledge of a complaint against him.

    The allegations, which reached Speaker Paul Ryan and top GOP leaders in recent days, led to Franks' sudden resignation this week. Franks originally announced that he would resign on Jan. 31, 2018. But just hours after POLITICO inquired about the allegations, he sped up his resignation and left office Friday.

    The sources said Franks approached two female staffers about acting as a potential surrogate for him and his wife, who has struggled with fertility issues for years. But the aides were concerned that Franks was asking to have sexual relations with them. It was not clear to the women whether he was asking about impregnating the women through sexual intercourse or in vitro fertilization. Franks opposes abortion rights as well as procedures that discard embryos.

    A former staffer also alleged that Franks tried to persuade a female aide that they were in love by having her read an article that described how a person knows they’re in love with someone, the sources said. One woman believed she was the subject of retribution after rebuffing Franks. While she enjoyed access to the congressman before the incident, that access was revoked afterward, she told Republican leaders.

    Franks denied all of the allegations through a spokesperson on Friday. In a statement Thursday, Franks acknowledged discussing surrogacy with his staffers and apologized for making them feel uncomfortable. But he said he “absolutely never physically intimidated, coerced, or had, or attempted to have, any sexual contact with any member of my congressional staff."

    Also on Friday, the Associated Press reported that Franks offered to pay an aide $5 million to carry his child and pressured her relentlessly on the matter.

    New details about the controversy surrounding Franks come as sexual harassment allegations have engulfed Capitol Hill. Franks became the third lawmaker this week alone to announce that he will step down after being accused of sexual misconduct, following Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.).

    House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) personally hastened Franks' departure, which the congressman said would be in late January but which on Friday he said would take effect immediately. Two weeks ago, a person contacted Ryan’s general counsel about “troubling” behavior by Franks directed at a former staffer. Ryan’s staff then reached out to the former staffer to verify the information in an interview conducted last week.

    The staffer told her story and detailed alleged misconduct by Franks about another staffer, which a third party aware of the situation verified.

    Ryan was briefed on the matter, then asked Franks to resign.
     
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    As a result, Senators Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillanbrand have called for Congressional Investigation of this claim.

    Trump has opted to bashed the woman---shying away from the 2 men---w this twit

    [​IMG] @realDonaldTrump

    Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office
    “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump.
    Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
    Gillibrand is no push-over; she tweeted back immediately
    “You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about
    the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office,”​
     
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    Yeah, you heard maybe one or two compared to the large large majority of us who expect all to be held accountable. GMAFB.
     
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    LOL, and Trump of course will say that he didn't mean to imply anything sexual by that comment. Sure.

    I think it's pretty obvious why Trump lies so much. Think about the people in your life who have lied constantly about things they've done. What's the common denominator? It is that they are generally bad people who do and say bad things, but they know they'll be called out for it, so they lie. \

    I think all of us know Trump is a true *******... it's just that some have to ignore that as long as he takes action favorably towards their agenda. Thank God I don't have to live with that.
     
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    More locally...

    Paul Pressler, former Texas judge and religious right leader, accused of sexually assaulting teen for years
    Emma Platoff

    A former Texas state judge and lawmaker has been accused of sexually abusing a young man for several decades starting when the boy was just 14, according to a lawsuit filed in October in Harris County.

    The lawsuit alleges that Paul Pressler, a former justice on the 14th Court of Appeals who served in the Texas state house from 1957–59, sexually assaulted Duane Rollins, his former bible study student, several times per month over a period of years. According to the filing, the abuse started in the late 1970s and continued less frequently after Rollins left Houston for college in 1983.

    In a November court filing, Pressler “generally and categorically [denied] each and every allegation” in Rollins’ petition.

    The abuse, which consisted of anal penetration, took place in Pressler’s master bedroom study, the suit alleges. According to the lawsuit, Pressler told Rollins he was “special” and that the sexual contact was their God-sanctioned secret.

    Pressler is a leading figure on the religious right in Texas and was a key player in the “conservative resurgence” of Southern Baptism, a movement in the 1970s and 1980s that aimed to oust liberals and moderates from the church’s organizational structure. Pressler’s wife Nancy, his former law partner Jared Woodfill, Woodfill Law Firm, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and First Baptist Church of Houston are also named as defendants in the suit.

    Rollins seeks damages of over $1 million.

    When asked about the suit, Ted Tredennick, Pressler’s attorney, pointed to Rollins' record, which is peppered with arrests on DUIs and other charges over the last several decades.

    “Mr. Rollins is clearly a deeply troubled man, with a track record of multiple felonies and incarceration, and it is the height of irresponsibility that anyone would present such a bizarre and frivolous case — much less report on it,” Tredennick said. He would not give any further comment or respond to specific questions.

    Rollins and his lawyer, Daniel Shea, say his past legal troubles stemmed from behavior fueled by alcohol and drug addictions sparked by the childhood sexual abuse. In 1998, Rollins was jailed for 10 years on burglary charges. Pressler advocated for Rollins to receive parole in 2000, when he was first eligible, and then again in 2002. In his 2002 letter to the parole board, Pressler pledged to employ Rollins and be “personally involved in every bit of Duane’s life with supervision and control.”

    Woodfill called the accusations against Pressler "absolutely false" and described the lawsuit as "an attempt to extort money." He also said he plans to file counter charges against Rollins and his lawyer for a "frivolous and harassing lawsuit."

    Shea said Pressler previously settled with Rollins over a 2004 battery charge for an incident in a Dallas hotel room. That settlement is not public, Shea said, but reference is made to such an agreement in recent court filings.

    Shea said that though Rollins filed that assault charge more than a decade ago, he had a “suppressed memory” of the sexual abuse until he made an outcry statement to a prison psychologist in November 2015. Harvey Rosenstock, a psychiatrist who has been working with Rollins since August 2016, wrote in a letter included in the suit that Rollins is a “reliable historian for the childhood sexual trauma to which he was repeatedly and chronically subjected.”

    Pressler was President George H.W. Bush’s pick to lead the Office of Government Ethics in 1989, but the administration ultimately ruled Pressler out after an FBI background investigation. News reports from the time suggest that Pressler was dismissed due to unspecified ethics issues.
     
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