Last year, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was one of the few powerful Democrats to say that Senator Al Franken should resign amid allegations that he groped eight women. A report from HuffPost details the backlash that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is now facing after her decision to speak out.
If you were to hastily design an algorithm to mimic what a politically powerful 71-year-old man credibly accused of serial sexual assault might have to say about rape culture and the resignation of former Senator Al Franken, it would probably sound a lot like what Bill Clinton has come up with lately.
In December, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took what was perhaps the boldest move in the generally cautious politician’s decade-long career: She published a Facebook post calling for Al Franken, who had been accused of groping and forcibly kissing multiple women, to step down. Within hours, dozens of senators…
Richard Painter, a long time Republican and ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, has filed to run for Senate in Minnesota as a Democrat, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported on Sunday.
Michele Bachmann, a former member of the United States House of Representatives who believes being gay is Satanic and Muslim immigrants are “problems that are coming into this country,” will not run for Senate because even God doesn’t want her to.
Today, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand appeared as a guest on Go Off, Mom!— uh, I mean, The View. There, co-host Joy Behar decided to hold her accountable for former Sen. Al Franken’s acts of sexual harassment and his subsequent resignation.
In an interview on ABC News a few days ago, Matt Damon called for the need to delineate between the actions of people like Al Franken and those like Roy Moore. “There’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?” he said.
On Monday, Politico reported that at least four senators are pushing Al Franken to reconsider his decision to resign from the Senate. Accusations against Franken by multiple women, which included stories of forcible kissing and groping, led Franken to resign earlier this month after pressure from his Democratic women…
On Friday, Politico reported how a little-known House agency—the Office of House Employment Counsel—used public funds to investigate sexual harassment complaints involving people in Representative Blake Farenthold’s office. This was done on Farenthold’s office’s request and included the House Employment Counsel…
When weighing the appropriate response to accusations of impropriety, criminality, or other wrongdoing by members of Congress, it is nearly impossible to avoid grubby, instrumentalist politics, even if one imagines one is operating purely on principle or ethics. To wit: Most of the Democrats, liberals, and leftists…
In the wake of Al Franken’s resignation from the Senate over sexual misconduct allegations, three Democratic senators have called for Donald Trump to resign over the long list of women who have accused him of sexual harassment and assault.
Minnesota Democrat Al Franken announced his resignation from the Senate on Thursday after eight women came forward in recent weeks to accuse him of unwanted sexual advances.
Minnesota Senator Al Franken announced his resignation today after a wave of women came forward with stories of his sexual misconduct.
Minnesota Democrat Al Franken announced in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday that he will resign as a senator “in the coming weeks,” bowing to pressure after a string of women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct and harassment.
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On Wednesday morning, a seventh woman came forward to accuse Al Franken of making unwanted sexual advances. Before the day was out—but after his colleagues called en masse for his resignation—another woman, journalist Tina Dupuy, published a piece in The Atlantic alleging Franken had groped her.
Mitch McConnell finds the sexual misconduct claims against Al Franken “extremely concerning” and believes that Franken can no longer “effectively serve the people of Minnesota.” This is true!
One after another, a wave of Democratic senators—all women—called for accused sexual harasser Al Franken to resign his seat Wednesday morning. The demands came just hours after a seventh woman accused Franken of unwanted sexual advances.
The fact that Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is an opportunist and hypocrite of the first order is hardly shocking. But watching him stick his neck out for alleged pedophile and sexual predator Roy Moore, only to turn around and express “concern” over the “serious, serious problem” posed by accused groper Senator…
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