Minnesota Sen. Dan Schoen to resign after sexual harassment claims

[echo4747]

http://www.startribune.com/minnesot...ign-after-sexual-harassment-claims/459152573/

 

[BoomerD]

Member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party?

That's an odd group...Democrats are...democrats, Farmers are USUALLY very Republican...and conservative, and Labor...USUALLY pretty far into the Democrat side...and often pretty conservative.

 

[bradly1101]

Member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party?

That's an odd group...Democrats are...democrats, Farmers are USUALLY very Republican...and conservative, and Labor...USUALLY pretty far into the Democrat side...and often pretty conservative.

It's not unlike the Log Cabin Republicans. They're still around.

Let me tell ya sonny boy, there once was a time when ideology crossed party lines both ways. We have some conservative democrats still serving, but I don't think there are any liberal republicans anymore. Used to be though.

 

[1prophet]

This is going to open up a much bigger can of worms,

And the documents also reveal the secret mechanism by which Congress has kept an unknown number of sexual harassment allegations secret: a grinding, closely held process that left the alleged victim feeling, she told BuzzFeed News, that she had no option other than to stay quiet and accept a settlement offered to her.

“I was basically blackballed. There was nowhere I could go,” she said in a phone interview. BuzzFeed News is withholding the woman’s name at her request because she said she fears retribution.

Last week the Washington Post reported that Congress’s Office of Compliance paid out $17 million for 264 settlements with federal employees over 20 years for various violations, including sexual harassment. The Conyers documents, however, give a glimpse into the inner workings of the office, which has for decades concealed episodes of sexual abuse by powerful political figures.

and all Past and Present House speakers should be held accountable

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, denied that she has any knowledge of sexual harassment incidents inflicted upon female members of Congress by their male colleagues.

Pelosi first said that she planned on helping to pass sexual harassment legislation, to get rid of non-disclosure agreements in the halls of Congress.

When asked if anyone has ever come to her with allegations of sexual harassment, the House minority leader denied that she had ever heard of any.

“They probably went through the process, and that’s a non-disclosure process,” she added.

Former Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA) and former Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) revealed this week that they had faced sexual harassment from their congressional colleagues, and some of these men still served in Congress.

https://www.apnews.com/ca32653c458c4a3e9ef07d31700c14e6

 

[sdifox]

Danke shoen

 

[UNCjigga]

I was so confused...like who the f is this Schoen guy, and then I realized he's a STATE senator and not in US Congress.

 

[Muse]

I was so confused...like who the f is this Schoen guy, and then I realized he's a STATE senator and not in US Congress.

That's a considerable distinction.

 

[shortylickens]

We're gonna need a special database just for the millions of accused molesters. Maybe pass Gwyneth's Law?