Two more of Christine's friends say she told them before he was the nominee.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/17/metoo-spurred-christine-blasey-ford-to-open-up-about-alleged-attack-year-before-kavanaugh-nomination-friends-say/

“I can’t really think of anyone better” to endure the grueling questions she is sure to face, said Rebecca White, one of Blasey Ford’s neighbors and a good friend. “She’s one of those people who teems with honesty and truth. She’s just that person.”

In an interview Monday with this news organization, White said that Blasey Ford had told her about the alleged assault — without naming Kavanaugh — in late 2017 during the height of the #MeToo movement and long before Kavanaugh was a Supreme Court nominee.

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On Monday, a group of 15 of Blasey Ford’s friends in Palo Alto, many working mothers like herself, formed a texting group to support her coming forward.

“She’s got a strong group of women who are standing by her and would do anything for her,” said Bethany Kay, 44, a CPA for a tech company.

Kirsten Leimroth, whose daughters are also part of the Junior Lifeguard program, was with Blasey Ford and Gensheimer that day at the beachside restaurant when Blasey Ford worried about her name being revealed. She had told Leimroth well before the July lunch that she had been “almost raped by a high school acquaintance,” but doesn’t remember exactly when that first conversation happened. The suggestion that Blasey Ford would make it up as a political ploy is “preposterous,” Leimroth said.

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