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Donkees

(31,407 posts) Mon Oct 1, 2018, 04:36 PM Oct 2018

Video: 1992 How Mitch McConnell handled sexual harassment case against Senator Bob Packwood

Published on Nov 14, 2017
Rachel Maddow reminds viewers of the sexual harassment case against Senator Bob Packwood and how Mitch McConnell used the Senate Ethics Committee and the threat of expulsion to drive Packwood from the Senate in shame. So he knows how to handle Moore.

Mr. McConnell, then the chairman of the ethics committee, and Senator Richard Bryan presenting volumes of the panel’s investigation into Senator Bob Packwood in September 1995. Mr. Packwood announced his resignation shortly after.CreditJohn Duricka/Associated Press

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