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Jose Garcia

(2,598 posts)
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:12 PM Jan 2018

Hillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008

Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — A senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young subordinate was kept on the campaign at Mrs. Clinton’s request, according to four people familiar with what took place.

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager at the time recommended that she fire the adviser, Burns Strider. But Mrs. Clinton did not. Instead, Mr. Strider was docked several weeks of pay and ordered to undergo counseling, and the young woman was moved to a new job.

Mr. Strider, who was Mrs. Clinton’s faith adviser, a co-founder of the American Values Network, and sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during the campaign, was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock.

He was fired after several months for workplace issues, including allegations that he harassed a young female aide, according to three people close to Correct the Record’s management.

Read more: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-chose-to-shield-a-top-adviser-accused-of-harassment-in-2008.html?referer=https://newrepublic.com/minutes/146790/hillary-clinton-reportedly-protected-alleged-sexual-harasser-2008-campaign

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Hillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008 (Original Post) Jose Garcia Jan 2018 OP
So, she docked his pay, sent him to counseling, and moved the at-risk staffer.... LisaM Jan 2018 #1
Why should the at risk staffer have to be moved? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #24
Maybe she wanted to be, I don't know. LisaM Jan 2018 #29
Yeah, because women like getting harassed and then transferred as a result. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #38
Fact free statement..... BoneyardDem Jan 2018 #331
That dead rooster you keep posting ehrnst Jan 2018 #333
We obviously don't know all the details of the situation, so none of us can speculate about "why". George II Jan 2018 #95
We know enough. He got to keep his job and she got transferred. Then he got to do it again. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #105
And this is something that's a non-starter? ehrnst Jan 2018 #113
Did you even read the article? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #117
Did you read this article? ehrnst Jan 2018 #124
Hmmm mcar Jan 2018 #234
Surprising that Sanders' campaign didn't have a Hortensis Jan 2018 #242
Yes, I did. ehrnst Jan 2018 #279
We don't know why he got to keep his job and she got transferred. It may have been.... George II Jan 2018 #123
We know, from the reporting, the Chief of Operations wanted him fired and was overruled. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #129
And? George II Jan 2018 #130
You wanted to know how he got to keep his job. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #139
No I didn't. But if anything we should want to know why he kept his job, not how. George II Jan 2018 #143
At least other candidates have a policy in place to deal with that! ehrnst Jan 2018 #281
You mean instead of being "demoted up"? ehrnst Jan 2018 #296
Well? (nt) ehrnst Jan 2018 #132
Nuff said... no excuse for punishing the victim. InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2018 #212
You mean like when Latina women wanted a deputy political directed fired for covering up ehrnst Jan 2018 #299
So, is this something that should disqualify a candidate from running as a Democrat? ehrnst Jan 2018 #335
This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #220
So? George II Jan 2018 #232
VEGAN RECIPES!!!!!!!! Didn't you see the bolded text for emphasis!! ehrnst Jan 2018 #285
Um... how is that "continuing to keep his job" through 2014 when the campaign was over in 2008? ehrnst Jan 2018 #284
This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #286
Who was insisting that he "was never heard from again?" ehrnst Jan 2018 #302
Jill Abramson got fired at NY Times after male subordinate delisen Jan 2018 #157
Total BS...he was sent for counseling which was not nothing...and a big who cares. Hillary is a Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #224
This woman said she felt like she was being blamed from the Sanders' campaign: R B Garr Jan 2018 #243
You mean they tried to cover it up? ehrnst Jan 2018 #283
Wrong...and stop implying he worked for Clinton in 16. He did not. Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #338
My first reaction, as well. Classic tactic that often derails the complaining woman's Ms. Toad Jan 2018 #160
Yep. "The new girl was involved in a scandal with mr so and so" Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #168
Probably not! :) She remained in the Clinton campaign Hortensis Jan 2018 #244
Yep.(nt) ehrnst Jan 2018 #339
Are you saying that the Clinton Campaign said that? ehrnst Jan 2018 #341
Don't expect any, and they didn't. They moved her into the Hortensis Jan 2018 #342
Bingo. (NT) ehrnst Jan 2018 #344
Exactly... why punish the victim? InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2018 #209
The Sander's campaign moved TWO staffers. R B Garr Jan 2018 #250
You've already acknowledged he didn't intervene. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #251
He said "Sanders Campaign," not Bernie. ehrnst Jan 2018 #340
Hassin, why? Why are you doing this? Hortensis Jan 2018 #343
So predictable, youre part of the anti-Sanders group. Bluepinky Jan 2018 #262
You can just admit you didn't read the thread. R B Garr Jan 2018 #263
Sometimes the truth hurts. Bluepinky Jan 2018 #264
Yes, apparently reading the truth about Sanders hurts, you R B Garr Jan 2018 #266
The article cited in the original post is about the Clinton campaign and does not mention Sanders. Bluepinky Jan 2018 #270
You should take your own advice. If you want to make things personal R B Garr Jan 2018 #272
I am not making things personal. Bluepinky Jan 2018 #274
You can just admit you didn't read the thread. R B Garr Jan 2018 #275
Welcome to DU to you too! Bluepinky Jan 2018 #277
If you want to talk about individual posters, you should start your R B Garr Jan 2018 #278
Welcome to DU! Bluepinky Jan 2018 #280
You should take your own advice. If you have hangups about individual posters, R B Garr Jan 2018 #282
Blah, blah, blah, did you say something? Bluepinky Jan 2018 #287
LOL, thanks for confirming you are just trying to get a reaction. R B Garr Jan 2018 #288
I was trying to have a conversation with you Bluepinky Jan 2018 #290
LOL R B Garr Jan 2018 #291
I am not your enemy, we both want a lot of the same things for our country. Bluepinky Jan 2018 #293
If you don't care about the hypocrisy, just say so. R B Garr Jan 2018 #294
Did you say something? Bluepinky Jan 2018 #295
Just admit you don't care about the hypocrisy. R B Garr Jan 2018 #298
I will admit that if you admit that you and others target Bernie, Bluepinky Jan 2018 #300
LOL, thanks for admitting you don't mind the hypocritical attacks R B Garr Jan 2018 #301
You have shown that you are a hypocrite by your response. Bluepinky Jan 2018 #306
+1000 LiberalLovinLug Jan 2018 #313
That is hilarious. Nothing was principled about that. R B Garr Jan 2018 #347
LOL, thanks again for admitting you are concerned R B Garr Jan 2018 #316
Where exactly is the "hypocrisy"? LiberalLovinLug Jan 2018 #312
Yet you are here two days later talking about the primaries. R B Garr Jan 2018 #314
You DO understand that calling someone out on re-fighting the primaries LiberalLovinLug Jan 2018 #320
Its a Hillary hit piece from LAST WEEK. R B Garr Jan 2018 #322
It was the 2008 campaign, almost ten years ago. The harasser was disciplined.... George II Jan 2018 #289
Okay, thanks. Bluepinky Jan 2018 #292
Your post 24: "Why did the staffers have to be moved?" R B Garr Jan 2018 #255
This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #256
Your post 24: "Why did the staffers have to be moved?" R B Garr Jan 2018 #259
The hatred of Hillary Clinton who is a private citizen is troubling...why? Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #337
Sounds like what the catholic church did. You think that was cool, too? n/t X_Digger Jan 2018 #167
Looks to me like she gave him a pass for it, & then fired him when the counseling didn't work... Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #178
It's not shielding. She took corrective action. PatrickforO Jan 2018 #303
He was fired. dalton99a Jan 2018 #2
Eight years later. former9thward Jan 2018 #4
to do what, exactly? azureblue Jan 2018 #8
Ok, you are saying women should submit to unwanted kissing. former9thward Jan 2018 #16
...... Kingofalldems Jan 2018 #70
Unlike you, I don't deflect. former9thward Jan 2018 #77
I referenced a much larger story. Kingofalldems Jan 2018 #84
Looks like a reflection, not a deflection. George II Jan 2018 #96
Now that's some irony! LanternWaste Jan 2018 #346
It's unbelievable the lengths some will go to defend those who minimize sexual harassment. InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2018 #213
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST are we really going to minimize this shit with special pleading just because AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author Wwcd Jan 2018 #54
Bernie paid a political price for that. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #58
Paid what price? He brushed ot off & it was never mentioned again....but Al Franken .. Wwcd Jan 2018 #64
It was never mentioned again. Lol Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #79
Why was it shielded from the press to our ears? Wwcd Jan 2018 #138
Well how did you find out about it? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #140
Wasn't from RT! Wwcd Jan 2018 #145
Didn't have to look too far Here's the link. Wwcd Jan 2018 #182
Wwcd's right. The press protected Bernie from Hortensis Jan 2018 #248
Why Shouldn't It Be Mentioned? Me. Jan 2018 #161
I didn't say it shouldn't be mentioned. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #183
Yet...It Remains A True Story Me. Jan 2018 #190
. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #193
I don't recall any candidate writing something like that Lordquinton Jan 2018 #102
Google rape fantasies bernie sanders. Or read it here. Wwcd Jan 2018 #141
Oh, yea, that's not at all what you claim it is Lordquinton Jan 2018 #204
A candidate did "write something like that", and it wasn't trump. I'd refresh your recall, but... George II Jan 2018 #199
No, I can't find anything like that Lordquinton Jan 2018 #205
It's a simple, easy google search. NPR did a story about it. George II Jan 2018 #229
Link, please? Ghost Dog Jan 2018 #108
See the post above yours. nt sheshe2 Jan 2018 #179
Here: Wwcd Jan 2018 #181
Post removed Post removed Jan 2018 #186
Bull. Minimizing his own disgusting words won't make it go away. Wwcd Jan 2018 #191
You claim to be disturbed by Mr. Sanders's 'essay'. Ghost Dog Jan 2018 #194
I could give you some of the thousands of protest comments that caused him to be Wwcd Jan 2018 #196
+ 1 Million Me. Jan 2018 #241
+1,000,000 George II Jan 2018 #197
I don't think anyone is minimizing it. George II Jan 2018 #97
Try post three. If that's not minimizing, I'm blind or something. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #149
Who ignored the advice of the Chief of Staff that the pervert should be fired? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #188
Hillary Clinton has issued a two-part tweet (because of the 140 character limit)... George II Jan 2018 #195
i thought they doubled that last year n/t 4rivers Jan 2018 #222
It was doubled for a certain % of users, not everyone. George II Jan 2018 #230
A Sanders' campaign victim said his campaign blamed her: R B Garr Jan 2018 #246
This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #252
Ahh, from an anti-Hillary website?? R B Garr Jan 2018 #257
That's from twitter Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #258
Your post 24: "Why did the staffers have to be moved?" R B Garr Jan 2018 #260
You have zero evidence Sanders intervened personally or moved anyone. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #261
So now you're saying the victim is not believable?? R B Garr Jan 2018 #265
Is she alleging Sanders personally intervened to save the abuser's job? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #267
Where did Sanders personally intervene to dock his pay? R B Garr Jan 2018 #268
This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #269
Why aren't you concerned about the Sanders' campaign victims? R B Garr Jan 2018 #273
Who is minimizing? I'm seeing however, a whole lot of maximizing... ehrnst Jan 2018 #114
Have a look at post 3. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #150
I'll read the actual story instead. lapucelle Jan 2018 #162
Yes, you have sufficiently narrowed the scope to ignore what happened in 2008 AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #166
Here's what happened in 2008 according to the NYT story. lapucelle Jan 2018 #170
Yes, I read it. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #206
It was not "the recommendation at the time". lapucelle Jan 2018 #238
I maintain, at my company, he'd have been dropped out the airlock. Even back in 2008. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #348
They changed the woman's work assignment, docked his pay, ehrnst Jan 2018 #172
Yes, it's what they do... we should have ZERO tolerance for sexual harassment. InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2018 #211
I know... minimizing abuse is unacceptable ehrnst Jan 2018 #325
So a supervisor giving unwanted kissing and touching is ok now??? angrychair Jan 2018 #34
I think its time to raise a big stink about Rape Fantasies & why the writer is still hailed above al Wwcd Jan 2018 #62
Wow which book? There was never any book. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #74
Who said anything about a book? ehrnst Jan 2018 #116
Did you read the post I was responding to? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #118
Mea culpa - ehrnst Jan 2018 #119
Never to be brought up again EVER by ANYONE too, as I'm told. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #122
If Hillary is going to be held accountable, then Bernie should be as well ehrnst Jan 2018 #128
Thank you. I see the minimizing of Rape Fantasies continues. Wwcd Jan 2018 #136
I looked through the article. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #185
Salsbury said she felt she was being blamed by the Sanders' campaign R B Garr Jan 2018 #245
Did sanders intervene to keep to sexual abuser and transfer the victim? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #247
No, he did not intervene. It's all in the article. Where is the outrage R B Garr Jan 2018 #249
Arturo is a good friend of ours," Sanders said. ehrnst Jan 2018 #308
. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #309
LOL! ehrnst Jan 2018 #323
I have a more accurate signature rooster pic for you ehrnst Jan 2018 #334
Read it. Its his own essay. His words, not a false claim nor RW Talking pts. Wwcd Jan 2018 #180
Yep.(nt) ehrnst Jan 2018 #324
Here are the writings of 30 yr old Bernie Sanders. Wwcd Jan 2018 #144
Nice deflection angrychair Jan 2018 #76
Let's put a face to this. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #68
sorta looks like turdblossom rove Kali Jan 2018 #107
Yep. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #109
Or saying women fantasize about being raped by three men ehrnst Jan 2018 #121
No. He was fired a few months after a subsequent infraction... George II Jan 2018 #126
Here. From a October 2014 article Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #221
Why not read the NY Times article linked in the OP? George II Jan 2018 #231
He never worked for HRC after 2008. lapucelle Jan 2018 #147
He was fired from a different company. delisen Jan 2018 #158
Not by Secretary Clinton's campaign Jose Garcia Jan 2018 #165
You would think videohead5 Jan 2018 #3
I would think that if that happened to me I would be wasupaloopa Jan 2018 #35
So a supervisor giving unwanted kissing and touching is ok now??? angrychair Jan 2018 #36
Hold on videohead5 Jan 2018 #39
Really angrychair Jan 2018 #46
So now it's all the same? videohead5 Jan 2018 #48
YES, its all the same angrychair Jan 2018 #56
It was wrong videohead5 Jan 2018 #80
Doesn't it seem somehow wrong to retain the abuser, and move the victim? AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #50
Depends on which team he's on. n/t QC Jan 2018 #187
No-it is not. N/T flotsam Jan 2018 #61
"he rubbed her shoulders and kissed her on the forehead and sent her unwanted emails" left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #110
This message was self-deleted by its author Bleacher Creature Jan 2018 #5
here we go again with the half truth-- azureblue Jan 2018 #6
Very confusing article. Shemp Howard Jan 2018 #7
actually it isn't confusing dsc Jan 2018 #14
I think I understand now. Shemp Howard Jan 2018 #18
Reassigned the employee? Really? You're ok with that??? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #40
Here the article is confusing dsc Jan 2018 #72
Just curious. How do you feel about women being required to relocate seats on a plane... Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #78
The article doesn't give a ton of detail dsc Jan 2018 #127
Damn, that's a matrix-worthy dodge. n/t X_Digger Jan 2018 #169
I'll wait to hear the real accounting of this, not the NY Times version. Wwcd Jan 2018 #9
Lol. Is the New York Times fake news now? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #41
It's news, but I find it amusing that the NY Times puts it on the same front page as their story still_one Jan 2018 #82
No offense but tl;dr. Not interested in some Gish Gallop over how The NYT is fake news. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #85
Is it the full story? I am not sure, that is my point, because the Times has been known to still_one Jan 2018 #142
The NYT has had a vendetta against HRC since the Whitewater days. Demit Jan 2018 #88
Umm. Did you read the article? He was rehired in 2016 and did it again while working on the campaign Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #92
He wasn't rehired by Hillary Clinton. Demit Jan 2018 #98
There's no confusion. The article makes it clear what happened. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #99
Sorry. If it had been clear, you wouldn't have said the guy was "rehired," or Demit Jan 2018 #137
Correct The Record didn't exist until 2015 so there seems to be some discrepancy on the dates. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #192
How different is this from any HR response? djacq Jan 2018 #10
It's not. Pacifist Patriot Jan 2018 #15
Well in this case "HR" recommended firing and the CEO protected a serial abuser. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #198
Exactly harun Jan 2018 #86
Sure. I have lost all faith in the NYTimes. sinkingfeeling Jan 2018 #11
Why? The reporting on the Mueller attempt firing by Shitler...is that something you have faith in?? Fred Sanders Jan 2018 #32
Theyve been schizoid about Trump to point of seemingly trolling us... bettyellen Jan 2018 #57
I find this part most disturbing: Merlot Jan 2018 #12
And fired shortly thereafter. LisaM Jan 2018 #19
Actually he wasn't fired shortly thereafter. Shemp Howard Jan 2018 #28
Yes, I meant fired shortly after being hired in 2016. LisaM Jan 2018 #30
No. He was hired five years after the 2008 campaign by Correct the Record. Demit Jan 2018 #148
Who gave Haberman the heads up to this story? She's solid RW Wwcd Jan 2018 #155
This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #219
Sure, okay. And Correct the Record was launched in November 2013. Demit Jan 2018 #235
What was Correct The Record's sole mission? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #237
Look, I don't know what argument you want to have, but Demit Jan 2018 #239
Gee, someone with a history of sexual harassment gets hired again and harasses again? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #31
Why does any campainge need a "faith adviser"? Grins Jan 2018 #22
Votes n/t 4rivers Jan 2018 #223
This is just the both sides do it BS. The real story is about Steve Wynn rethug money bag. kydo Jan 2018 #13
OR it's also a story, granted of smaller magnitude based on the accusations. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #21
#fakenews. stonecutter357 Jan 2018 #17
What have we learned about 'faith-based' whatever in politics? Loubee Jan 2018 #23
It's poison, regardless of political affiliation. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #55
If she would have won MFM008 Jan 2018 #25
Wow, are we really this partisan?!? angrychair Jan 2018 #26
The double standard here can be egregious, sometimes. bearsfootball516 Jan 2018 #27
Liberals wait For full facts before the outrage. But, free country. Tempest in a Foxxx teapot. Fred Sanders Jan 2018 #33
No, its not angrychair Jan 2018 #42
Hold on videohead5 Jan 2018 #45
He was her religious advisor angrychair Jan 2018 #47
Your 100% correct... how anyone can defend this is beyond me? InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2018 #210
Even the guy who wrote a story about rape fantasy ? Wwcd Jan 2018 #326
No, Brock hired him in 2013. Read the story again. Demit Jan 2018 #174
From article angrychair Jan 2018 #216
I am merely correcting the misinformation that he was hired in 2016 by Hillary. Demit Jan 2018 #227
Not just what he did angrychair Jan 2018 #297
The story doesn't say that the victim was moved away from her co-workers and friends. lapucelle Jan 2018 #305
Again what is with this white washing angrychair Jan 2018 #317
People are not allowed to make up facts in the service of their narratives. N/T lapucelle Jan 2018 #319
What did I make up? What narrative? angrychair Jan 2018 #321
Somehow lapucelle Jan 2018 #327
Because that is what happened angrychair Jan 2018 #330
"It is logical to assume..." lapucelle Jan 2018 #332
She may have wanted to go. I wanted out of my department after having a guy keep making the moves on Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #345
You need to calm down and reread the article. yardwork Jan 2018 #214
He was hired to run an aligned PAC angrychair Jan 2018 #218
And you need to read my post again. You are making wild accusations. yardwork Jan 2018 #225
No just clarifying with all the hair splitting angrychair Jan 2018 #311
He was hired as a senior advisor to a PAC seven years later. lapucelle Jan 2018 #310
Please dont do that angrychair Jan 2018 #315
Don't tell me what to do or not to do. Save your lectures for Maggie Haberman. lapucelle Jan 2018 #318
A distraction? Going to go with that hand-wave? AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #63
I don't think anyone is saying it was okay. I'm not reading that anywhere. LisaM Jan 2018 #37
Not calling out specific people angrychair Jan 2018 #51
I couldn't get into the NYT article, so I don't know all the details. LisaM Jan 2018 #53
Two thoughts which probably won't be popular: Cuthbert Allgood Jan 2018 #43
+100 PDittie Jan 2018 #328
From an HR perspective... jmbar2 Jan 2018 #44
Exactly ... The empressof all Jan 2018 #49
"reassignment of the young lady" Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #52
They had suggestive emails sent in the middle of the night by a married man. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #60
From an HR perspective: BULL RandomAccess Jan 2018 #94
She's not president awesomerwb1 Jan 2018 #59
I Still videohead5 Jan 2018 #65
She's not even in talks of running for 2020. Like some are. Wwcd Jan 2018 #67
How about romana Jan 2018 #66
YES videohead5 Jan 2018 #69
Thank you. Victim blaming is a RW tradition Wwcd Jan 2018 #71
How about who blocked the firing recommended by the investigating party which then ... Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #81
Faith adviser, what a shock. BlueTsunami2018 Jan 2018 #73
Swap a Republican's name for Hillary Clinton's name in this article democrank Jan 2018 #75
If the Republican was out of politics, not running for anything? Say, Chris Christie? Demit Jan 2018 #91
Well, I'll never vote for her again! TheDebbieDee Jan 2018 #83
LOL, nor will I. Lokilooney Jan 2018 #175
Kickin' Faux pas Jan 2018 #87
Is this the first scandal where HR actually took action in a complaint- wasnt burying the story bettyellen Jan 2018 #89
It's a pretty glaring example of HR recommending firing, management overruling HR... Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #115
Its a rare example because the man actually faced consequences is what it is. Thats what is bettyellen Jan 2018 #131
Absurd Conclusion on your part. delisen Jan 2018 #153
Is this never ending Hillary hate a not to subtle message to all female politicians? Yavin4 Jan 2018 #90
I don't think so, really. Hillary Clinton is sui generis. She has been the special Demit Jan 2018 #93
Exactly. Remember the NYT nasty firing of Jill Abramson? delisen Jan 2018 #154
I've seen TV and read... Mike Nelson Jan 2018 #100
Naturally Glenn and all the Hillary Derangement Crowd is all orgasmic Blue_Tires Jan 2018 #101
Fuck Off greenwald.. we know you're Cha Jan 2018 #189
Without Further Details, This Incident From 10 Years Ago Smells Like "Bothsiderism" dlk Jan 2018 #103
2018-2016 2 years. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #106
So Hillary is at fault for Brock too? Interesting. If she believed the punishment from HR was bettyellen Jan 2018 #125
H. Clinton-so powerful she is responsible for everything! delisen Jan 2018 #159
It sounds like to me, she followed the law, investigated, Alice11111 Jan 2018 #104
I think Hillary should withdraw from the race......Oh. Wait a minute... OnDoutside Jan 2018 #111
"he rubbed her shoulders and kissed her on the forehead and sent her unwanted emails" left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #112
. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #120
As noted above, Sanders campaign ignores allegations of sexual harassment: bettyellen Jan 2018 #134
Thanks for posting. Wwcd Jan 2018 #156
The "waah, he did it too" schtick stopped becoming valid thinking in elementary school. n/t X_Digger Jan 2018 #171
We are discussing what the proper response is- equating cover ups to reprimands is bullshit.... bettyellen Jan 2018 #176
Thanks bettyellen! Cha Jan 2018 #200
Once again, we see people pretending to give a damn about women and using any story they can cook up bettyellen Jan 2018 #202
It seems Hillary will always be held to a higher standard mcar Jan 2018 #236
Looks like there were also issues with the Sanders campaign ehrnst Jan 2018 #133
Wow, Salsbury has an interesting story about the toxic Sanders' R B Garr Jan 2018 #146
What's that about glass houses? Cha Jan 2018 #201
Hi, Cha! Glass houses indeed. I dont see any ALL CAPS OUTRAGE R B Garr Jan 2018 #240
Exactly, RB.. they don't want to Cha Jan 2018 #307
She probably should have fired him day one. Can we now focus on what is ACTUALLY Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #135
Nobody "chose to shield him". The campaign followed the procedures in place lapucelle Jan 2018 #151
Yeah, um no. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2018 #217
News Report or Propaganda Hit Piece? delisen Jan 2018 #152
They're trying to Franken Hillary now? orangecrush Jan 2018 #163
What's next, "Hillary Clinton groped me!"? betsuni Jan 2018 #164
Meanwhile, Glenn Thrush is still at the NYT. (nt) ehrnst Jan 2018 #173
And writing a book with Haberman, apparently. yardwork Jan 2018 #215
Chose to reprimand, punish and mandate treatment for.... bettyellen Jan 2018 #177
+1 dalton99a Jan 2018 #203
Interesting thread. Kingofalldems Jan 2018 #184
Im always skeptical of these stories about Hillary hamsterjill Jan 2018 #207
I am with you on this rurallib Jan 2018 #226
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2018 #208
Auction paddles with "you lie" Historic NY Jan 2018 #228
So Hillary fucked up, she is NOT the president, she is not kacekwl Jan 2018 #233
Faux outrage bullshit tenderfoot Jan 2018 #253
NYT suspended Thrush 4 weeks in 2017, mcar Jan 2018 #254
I am glad the women was comfortable enough to come forward withing the camp and that riversedge Jan 2018 #271
That headline sounds like a Breitbart clickbait youtube title. ucrdem Jan 2018 #276
Look who's lapping it up. Cha Jan 2018 #329
Yep . . . ucrdem Jan 2018 #336
several years ago hubby was confronted with this decision... samnsara Jan 2018 #304
Firing an employee is never out of the question. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #349
Here's one staffer being accused of harassment called a "good friend" R B Garr Jan 2018 #351
I found some of the allegations in another story. AtheistCrusader Jan 2018 #352
Hillary Clinton was never going to fit perfectly into the role of women's savior. Orsino Jan 2018 #350

LisaM

(27,813 posts)
1. So, she docked his pay, sent him to counseling, and moved the at-risk staffer....
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:15 PM
Jan 2018

How is this "shielding" exactly?

LisaM

(27,813 posts)
29. Maybe she wanted to be, I don't know.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:20 PM
Jan 2018

I'm just saying, I don't think the accusations against Hillary really have legs.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
38. Yeah, because women like getting harassed and then transferred as a result.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:34 PM
Jan 2018

He gets to keep his job and also gets to help run another organization for his deeds. She gets a transfer.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
113. And this is something that's a non-starter?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:56 PM
Jan 2018

I mean like you know, creating and fast tracking legislation like Sierra Blanca, or brushing off writing that women fantasize about rape?
 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
124. Did you read this article?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:13 PM
Jan 2018

Women On Clinton And Sanders Campaigns Allege Sexual Harassment

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-sanders-campaign-sexual-harassment_us_5a0dfdf2e4b045cf43705417

Like Adams, Salsbury felt helpless to stop the harassment. There was no culture of accountability in the D.C. office of the Sanders campaign, she said, and she didn’t think people would listen to a young volunteer. It was “a culture that didn’t discuss office policies with volunteers or make it clear that harassment wasn’t tolerated,” said Salsbury.

Salsbury did hear from the Sanders campaign after she posted about the incident this month on social media. A former digital media manager reached out to her this past weekend, she said, and on Monday, a Seattle-based lawyer named Bernice Johnson Blessing called her on behalf of the campaign. “It firmly felt like the kind of call you make when you’re trying to feel out if someone has the interest and/or standing to bring a lawsuit,” said Salsbury.

The conversation with the lawyer made her uncomfortable. “It felt like I was being blamed,” she said. She suspects that Sanders plans to run for president again in 2020 and “they’re afraid of me being a roadblock to that.” Blessing did not return a request for comment.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
242. Surprising that Sanders' campaign didn't have a
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 12:35 PM
Jan 2018

workplace policy in place. He and his wife have both run operations with many employees before, which of course, people being people, means it has happened before.

No surprise that Clinton's operation had a well established policy that was applied quickly upon complaint. The way this was handled may seem imperfect, an executive punished but kept and a clerk transferred to another position away from him, but a low-level female's complaint against a man with power in the organization was acted upon and promptly. No nonsense about blaming the woman for the man's goatish behaviors.

Hassan, when "he did it again," it was several years later and he worked for a different organization. The 2016 Clinton Campaign did not hire him, which considering she was expected to become our 45th president must have been quite a career comedown and disappointment for him.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
279. Yes, I did.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:22 PM
Jan 2018

Did you?

Salsbury, on the other hand, was volunteering as the president of American University Students for Bernie when another intern on the campaign made unwanted advances, she said.

Another member of the group confirmed her account, saying Salsbury had been sexually harassed.

Salsbury, who wasn’t sure if her claims would be taken seriously, said there was no policy infrastructure within the campaign to deal with reports of harassment, or any policies made readily available to volunteers.

When she posted about her experience on social media, she said a former campaign manager reached out before a lawyer called her about it.

“It felt like I was being blamed,” Salsbury said of the phone call.


I think that the classy thing to do is to acknowledge what happened, do something about it, and check in with the victim.

If only other candidates had that kind of concern and class, and made sure that the victim wasn't treated like she was to blame...

George II

(67,782 posts)
123. We don't know why he got to keep his job and she got transferred. It may have been....
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:12 PM
Jan 2018

....the result of discussions between the campaign and the people involved. But we don't know that.

When "he got to do it again", he was not an employee of the Clinton campaign. That happened in 2013 (the article says five years later) and was fired by the organization he was working for within months of that second incident.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
281. At least other candidates have a policy in place to deal with that!
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:28 PM
Jan 2018
"Salsbury, on the other hand, was volunteering as the president of American University Students for Bernie when another intern on the campaign made unwanted advances, she said.

Another member of the group confirmed her account, saying Salsbury had been sexually harassed.

Salsbury, who wasn’t sure if her claims would be taken seriously, said there was no policy infrastructure within the campaign to deal with reports of harassment, or any policies made readily available to volunteers.

When she posted about her experience on social media, she said a former campaign manager reached out before a lawyer called her about it.

“It felt like I was being blamed,” Salsbury said of the phone call.
 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
296. You mean instead of being "demoted up"?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:22 PM
Jan 2018

Since you are now bringing into this discussion who should have been fired from a campaign for offensive actions, I'm curious to hear your opinion of how this was handled.

. We specifically asked for Arturo to be fired or at least removed from direct management. We also asked for his behavior to be officially dealt with, which it wasn’t. Instead he was “demoted up,” as they like to say in campaigns. He was removed from having a say over anyone in Latino Outreach but instead moved into a newly made-up role to oversee outreach desks. Soon after, Rich Pelletier was also “demoted up” amid numerous complaints of mismanagement in field and replaced by Julia Barnes.


https://medium.com/@mashamendieta/the-secret-sexism-of-arturo-carmona-candidate-for-cd34-a31173f21350

(This is specifically addressing a topic that Hassin Bin Sober inserted into this discussion, which is that a candidate should fire those in a campaign who are accused of such, and is not a rehash of the primary outcome or any other aspect of the 2016 primary as such.)
 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
299. You mean like when Latina women wanted a deputy political directed fired for covering up
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:31 PM
Jan 2018

abuse but he was "demoted up" to a newly created position?

Sounds AWFUL!!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturo-carmona-68328965/



 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
335. So, is this something that should disqualify a candidate from running as a Democrat?
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 11:28 AM
Jan 2018

Just curious, since you supported Hillary in 2016.


Here's a another picture of a thoroughly done old rooster, this one in it's New England habitat.


Response to George II (Reply #123)

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
285. VEGAN RECIPES!!!!!!!! Didn't you see the bolded text for emphasis!!
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:47 PM
Jan 2018

Unacceptable. That woman is EVIL!

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
284. Um... how is that "continuing to keep his job" through 2014 when the campaign was over in 2008?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:46 PM
Jan 2018

And OMG VEGAN RECIPES WERE EXCHANGED!!

Unforgiveable! That neocon witch should be burned at the steak!!!


Response to ehrnst (Reply #284)

delisen

(6,044 posts)
157. Jill Abramson got fired at NY Times after male subordinate
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:52 PM
Jan 2018

complained she was too pushy. He got her job.

First female executive editor at NY times dumped.

I am sorry to see the culture at the NY times has not changed since the 1970s when they went to court to try to keep having segregated Help Wanted ads. Low paying subservient jobs were found in the Female columns. Good paying and management jobs were listed under Males.

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
224. Total BS...he was sent for counseling which was not nothing...and a big who cares. Hillary is a
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 09:08 AM
Jan 2018

private citizen...yawn. Don't fall for such nonsense.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
243. This woman said she felt like she was being blamed from the Sanders' campaign:
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 12:59 PM
Jan 2018
The conversation with the lawyer made her uncomfortable. “It felt like I was being blamed,” she said. She suspects that Sanders plans to run for president again in 2020 and “they’re afraid of me being a roadblock to that.” Blessing did not return a request for comment

Salsbury said: "It felt like I was being blamed," That's outrageous, right? Shouldn't this man have been banned from working for life? What did Sanders' personally do to ensure this man never works again or is never around women again??

Let's not have outrage only about Hillary....
 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
283. You mean they tried to cover it up?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:40 PM
Jan 2018
Salsbury’s account isn’t the first allegation of a toxic workplace in the Sanders campaign.

Earlier this year, as he was running unsuccessfully for Congress in California’s 34th District, Arturo Carmona battled accusations of sexism and mistreatment of staff from when he was deputy political director in the Sanders campaign. Among the allegations was a charge by the campaign’s former national Latino outreach strategist, Masha Mendieta, that Carmona had “covered up” an accusation of sexual harassment made against a volunteer surrogate in Nevada. Carmona didn’t take the allegations seriously, Mendieta wrote in a Medium post.

“Arturo and his deputy went out drinking that night, didn’t pay it another thought, and the next morning assigned two young female interns to the same surrogate we just reported,” wrote Mendieta. “We objected vehemently and they reassigned them amidst great sighing.”

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
168. Yep. "The new girl was involved in a scandal with mr so and so"
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:57 PM
Jan 2018

The fact he still has a job makes her look like a trouble maker.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
244. Probably not! :) She remained in the Clinton campaign
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:06 PM
Jan 2018

at at least the same level. But since she now reported to Mike Henry, Hillary's deputy campaign manager, in the center of the campaign instead of being part of an ancillary function, it sounds like it had to have been good for her career, and her. What an experience...!

In any case, she's never complained publicly, and I'm a little curious to know what she was doing 8 years later during the 2016 campaign. Hillary is famous for being very loyal to her people and vice versa, so if this person wanted to be part of that she may well have been. (Stridor, of course, was not hired for 2016.)

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
342. Don't expect any, and they didn't. They moved her into the
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 06:02 PM
Jan 2018

action, decision-making center of the campaign, where everyone always wants to be. That speaks volumes.

Note all the right wing deza, domestic and Russian intelligence ops, about this. They're really trying for that "tell a lie enough times and people will believe it."

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
250. The Sander's campaign moved TWO staffers.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:28 PM
Jan 2018

The victims said they felt like they were being blamed:

“Arturo and his deputy went out drinking that night, didn’t pay it another thought, and the next morning assigned two young female interns to the same surrogate we just reported,” wrote Mendieta. “We objected vehemently and they reassigned them amidst great sighing.”

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
251. You've already acknowledged he didn't intervene.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:32 PM
Jan 2018

"249. No, he did not intervene. It's all in the article."

Nice try to muddy the waters.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
343. Hassin, why? Why are you doing this?
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 06:19 PM
Jan 2018

Let's all step back, take a breath, and you can explain why you feel it's important to further what Jose Garcia brought to DU.

It can't be an attempt to distract from Trump/Republican/Russian crimes, even if that's what those people are using it for.

Are some here unaware that Hillary is basically retired from elective politics. Is there a feeling of unfinished business, 2016 somehow didn't provide closure?

Surely it's not battle against the Democratic coalition base before we even begin to choose a candidate for 2020? Please say it's nothing to do with 2018.



Countdown to midterms: 281 days.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
262. So predictable, youre part of the anti-Sanders group.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:53 PM
Jan 2018

If there’s ever a hint of criticism about anything to do with Hillary Clinton or her campaign, the Sanders bashers come out of the woodwork to make it about Sanders.
Isn’t this what Faux News does too, turn it around to blame someone else?

You know you don’t have to respond to every supposed outrage, don’t you?

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
263. You can just admit you didn't read the thread.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:56 PM
Jan 2018

The posts are numbered, so you can read them in sequence. Let me know what you think of posts 1 to 25 for starters. Thanks!

Your description is really a joke. But it sounds familiar....hmmm.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
266. Yes, apparently reading the truth about Sanders hurts, you
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:01 PM
Jan 2018

are right. There is a great article about the Clinton/Sanders campaigns regarding the harassment on both campaigns. You should read it.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
270. The article cited in the original post is about the Clinton campaign and does not mention Sanders.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:26 PM
Jan 2018

Did you read the article in the original post?
If you want to change the subject to denigrate the Sanders campaign, you should post a new thread. That way people will know it’s a Sanders bashing thread and can ignore it if they want to.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
272. You should take your own advice. If you want to make things personal
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:32 PM
Jan 2018

and express your personal hangups about individuals, you should start a thread about that. Your selective outrage concern is noted.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
274. I am not making things personal.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:42 PM
Jan 2018

If I see a post about the Clinton campaign and the article posted is only about the Clinton campaign, it is surprising that some people turn it around to criticize the Sanders campaign. It happens often enough by the same posters to make it predictable and irritating.

Did you read the article in the original post? The Sanders campaign wasn’t even mentioned. If you want to change the subject to criticize the Sanders campaign, you should start a new thread.
😀


R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
275. You can just admit you didn't read the thread.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:44 PM
Jan 2018

And you should take your own advice.

When you see an anti-Clinton hit piece, and then you read the thread and read all the hypocrisy in the comments, then you see why people are pointing out the hypocrisy.

You can just admit you didn't read the thread. Welcome to DU!

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
277. Welcome to DU to you too!
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:56 PM
Jan 2018

It wasn’t a hit piece on the Clinton campaign, I think you’re a little sensitive.
I’m certain that every campaign has its share of people behaving badly, including the Clinton and Sanders campaigns. I’m just asking why every post about the Clinton campaign is automatically turned around to target Sanders and his campaign. Aren’t we all working to achieve the same goals, more or less?

Maybe the article shouldn’t even have been posted, not sure what it accomplishes, except to divide people into different camps.

I, for one, would have been thrilled to have either Sanders or Clinton as my President, and I don’t see the point of bashing either of them.😀

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
278. If you want to talk about individual posters, you should start your
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:59 PM
Jan 2018

own thread. You should take your own advice.

You can admit you didn't read the thread. When you read the hypocrisy in the thread responses, then you can badger me more, but in the meantime, if you haven't read the thread, then you should take your own advice and go read it.

Welcome to DU, lol.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
280. Welcome to DU!
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:26 PM
Jan 2018

Thank you for your advice.

I actually did start a thread on this very topic several months ago, I noticed that very negative things were said about Sanders, whereas negative comments about Clinton weren’t tolerated. There was a noticeable bias in favor of Clinton. Personally, with what is happening in the country now, I don’t think we should criticize either of them. We’re supposed to be on the same side.

You should take your own suggestion and read the article in the original post, Sanders name isn’t even mentioned. Don’t resort to Faux News tactics.

And please don’t demean me be repeatedly writing “welcome to DU”. I have as much right to express my ideas as anyone else.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
282. You should take your own advice. If you have hangups about individual posters,
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:36 PM
Jan 2018

you should start your own thread.

If you want to talk about other threads and your experiences on them, then you should start another thread about your other experiences.

You should admit that you didn't read the thread responses. You should admit that you don't care about the hypocrisy. It doesn't matter to you. But no one has to apologize to you for not liking the hypocrisy.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
287. Blah, blah, blah, did you say something?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:51 PM
Jan 2018

It’s like talking to a brick wall.

Why don’t you start a thread bashing Sanders instead of butting in to every other thread with your criticisms? Then it’s easy for people to ignore it.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
288. LOL, thanks for confirming you are just trying to get a reaction.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:52 PM
Jan 2018

Welcome to DU. You should take your own advice.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
291. LOL
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:58 PM
Jan 2018
I've been here long enough to recognize all the Sanders' concern. Sorry, I just don't like the hypocrisy.

Ciao.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
293. I am not your enemy, we both want a lot of the same things for our country.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:03 PM
Jan 2018

Why try to divide Sanders/Clinton supporters? The campaign is over for both of them, and look what we’re stuck with.
I’m not against you.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
294. If you don't care about the hypocrisy, just say so.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:09 PM
Jan 2018

You should take your own advice about "dividing supporters". You are not even making an honest observation. The observation would only be accurate if you read the thread responses, but you are okay with them because the hypocrisy obviously doesn't concern you. That says all I need to know.

If you want to start a thread about Sanders/Clinton supporters, you should do that. You should take your own advice if you are concerned.

Ciao.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
295. Did you say something?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:21 PM
Jan 2018

There’s hypocrisy on both sides, and what does it matter? We’re still stuck with Trump. Why don’t we rise above fighting with each other and target those who are the enemies of our country?

The point is, I don’t want to start yet another thread about Hillary vs Bernie. We should move on. I don’t want to criticize either of them.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
298. Just admit you don't care about the hypocrisy.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:25 PM
Jan 2018

Just admit you don't care about the thread responses if they are hypocritically anti Clinton. You should take your own advice.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
300. I will admit that if you admit that you and others target Bernie,
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:32 PM
Jan 2018

and if you say you will stop doing it.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
301. LOL, thanks for admitting you don't mind the hypocritical attacks
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:35 PM
Jan 2018

on Hillary. I do, so I'll continue posting what I want. Thanks for your concern,

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
306. You have shown that you are a hypocrite by your response.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:46 PM
Jan 2018

You don’t care about uniting people, you only care about evening scores.
I have tried to have a thoughtful dialogue with you without success.
You feel good now because you feel like you have “won” something, though you haven’t. We have all lost.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
347. That is hilarious. Nothing was principled about that.
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 11:28 AM
Jan 2018

It’s hypocritical to pretend to be concerned about harassment victims only if the accusations concern one politician.

If the other accused get a pass depending on how much you like another politician, then that’s hypocrisy. There is nothing principled about that.

That poster was more interested in making things personal about me. He made it clear he was only concerned about Bernie, with not even attempting to give a darn about harassment victims. Hardly a principled position. That’s why these personal attacks are so transparent. ....

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
316. LOL, thanks again for admitting you are concerned
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:25 PM
Jan 2018

about Bernie.

In the meantime, I’ll post what I want to about the hypocritical attacks on Hillary in this recent article and the double standards about victims depending on whose campaign they’re from.

You should take your own advice.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)
312. Where exactly is the "hypocrisy"?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:10 PM
Jan 2018

Is this a story about Sanders, or even a top representative of the Sanders campaign calling out Hillary and/or her staff for not responding properly to this? Because then you could accuse them of 'hypocrisy'.

The act of posting a story about the Clinton campaign, even in a negative light, and NOT scouring the internet for anything similar from her primary rival(s), is not the definition of "hypocrisy". A person that calls you out on your relentless bashing of one of our parties most important and popular allies...is not a supporter of "hypocrisy" either.

But since you always insist on opening the primary fight once again, and making it a Bernie vs Hillary thread. If one were to be so bold, one could make the case that there is more of an opportunity to use the word "hypocrisy" towards the Hillary campaign, both cases being equal for the sake of argument. In that it is she that was, with women voters especially, looked up to as the candidate that they trusted most on the topic of working against sexual harassment in the workplace.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
314. Yet you are here two days later talking about the primaries.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:21 PM
Jan 2018

Again.

Just admit you don’t care about the hypocritical and selective outrage about harassment victims because it’s a Hillary hit piece. Others do, so I’ll post accordingly.

Thanks for your concern.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)
320. You DO understand that calling someone out on re-fighting the primaries
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:59 PM
Jan 2018

is not the same as re-fighting the primaries, right?

Oh, and thanks. I try. I don't know why, but I try.
Have a nice day

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
322. Its a Hillary hit piece from LAST WEEK.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 06:40 PM
Jan 2018

You are the only one trying to make it about the primaries.

You gave a good day, too.

George II

(67,782 posts)
289. It was the 2008 campaign, almost ten years ago. The harasser was disciplined....
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:53 PM
Jan 2018

....to the satisfaction of his victim.

The 2008 Clinton Campaign has been disbanded and distant history.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
292. Okay, thanks.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:59 PM
Jan 2018

I’m not criticizing Clinton or her campaign, there are employees with undesirable behaviors in every campaign, I’m sure.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
255. Your post 24: "Why did the staffers have to be moved?"
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:46 PM
Jan 2018

You asked in your post #24, "Why did the staffers have to be moved?"

Why did Sanders move TWO staffers? Looks like the outrage in your post 24 about a staffer being moved in the Clinton campaign is situational, at best. You don't take umbrage in TWO staffers being moved in the Sanders campaign.

And again with the selective outrage. The "intervene" part is out of context now that it's known that Sander's moved two staffers. LOL


Response to R B Garr (Reply #255)

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
259. Your post 24: "Why did the staffers have to be moved?"
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:50 PM
Jan 2018

You asked in your post #24, "Why did the staffers have to be moved?"

Why did Sanders move TWO staffers? Looks like the outrage in your post 24 about a staffer being moved in the Clinton campaign is situational, at best. You don't take umbrage in TWO staffers being moved in the Sanders campaign.

And again with the selective outrage. The "intervene" part is out of context now that it's known that Sander's moved two staffers. LOL

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
337. The hatred of Hillary Clinton who is a private citizen is troubling...why?
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 04:50 PM
Jan 2018

She handled it the first time...in 16 he was not employed by her but by an independent group who fired him...case closed. And a big who cares.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
178. Looks to me like she gave him a pass for it, & then fired him when the counseling didn't work...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:45 PM
Jan 2018

and it happened again.

We don't know what happened, exactly, but for it to go that high, I'm guessing it was your standard harassment, which is serious.

They may have asked the girl if she was okay being moved.

PatrickforO

(14,577 posts)
303. It's not shielding. She took corrective action.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:39 PM
Jan 2018

Not only that, but we don't know the whole story.

But 'shielding' is not an accurate word in this case, it seems. But then, the media's motivation is to increase ratings by generating controversy - that's how they choose the 'angle' of the story.

It could just as easily have been, "Hillary Clinton takes prompt corrective action against a staff member accused of sexual harassment."

But, no, it's 'shield.'

former9thward

(32,025 posts)
16. Ok, you are saying women should submit to unwanted kissing.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:31 PM
Jan 2018

What else should they submit to and shut up about it?

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
213. It's unbelievable the lengths some will go to defend those who minimize sexual harassment.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:35 AM
Jan 2018

It's called ZERO tolerance for a reason.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
20. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST are we really going to minimize this shit with special pleading just because
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:41 PM
Jan 2018

our candidate was tangentially involved?

Knock it off.

Response to AtheistCrusader (Reply #20)

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
58. Bernie paid a political price for that.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:04 PM
Jan 2018

I don't think he was given a pass. The primary may have tracked differently if not for that issue.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
64. Paid what price? He brushed ot off & it was never mentioned again....but Al Franken ..
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:13 PM
Jan 2018

He paid no price at all.
It disappeared from the news & yet he stood firmly to call for Al Franken to resign.
The hypocrisy reeks.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
138. Why was it shielded from the press to our ears?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:26 PM
Jan 2018

Someone stopped that disgusting writing from being in the news.
Like Sierra Blanca, Amber Alert , Magnitsky...& more

Funny how that happens..not

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
145. Wasn't from RT!
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:41 PM
Jan 2018

He was interviewed on MSM & they did ask him about it. He laughed it off. Said it was dumb.

MSM never brought it up again.
Move on...

He didn't think the reasons for asking Al Franken to resign were dumb, however.


 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
182. Didn't have to look too far Here's the link.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 10:35 PM
Jan 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/5/28/8682503/bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy

This is why it is a trigger.
Yet he joined the list who asked Franken to resign for things in his comedic career quite far in his past, and here we are with a half reported claim from RWer Haberman & the NY Times about who else but Hillary.
While Rape Fantasies remains untouchable.

That is the hypocrisy of this Haberman story.
And those here who have pushed the Haberman RW Talking Points.

Calling out Dems while protecting others.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
248. Wwcd's right. The press protected Bernie from
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:21 PM
Jan 2018

serious issues on his record while magnifying and constantly hitting right-wing lies about Hillary.

You know that. Russia knows that. We all know that.

It's history now. But only by being honest can people avoid being deceived by our enemies in future.

Fool us in 2016... We get Trump.

Let ourselves be fooled again, we get WHAT?

Countdown to midterms: 262 days.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
183. I didn't say it shouldn't be mentioned.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 10:53 PM
Jan 2018

I was laughing at the absurd statement it was never mentioned.

Ironically it was David Brock and his gang of scum bags pushing the story.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
102. I don't recall any candidate writing something like that
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:39 PM
Jan 2018

Unless you are speaking of Trump, but even he didn't write down anything like that... Not sure if he can write...

Response to Wwcd (Reply #181)

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
191. Bull. Minimizing his own disgusting words won't make it go away.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:39 PM
Jan 2018

Women's Convention received a full protest of his appearance for this very reason.

Protect him as you wish as you bash other Dems for their own occurances years ago & as some here support the NY Post writing by the solid RW Maggie Haberman.

It is the hypocrisy of this whole thing that has brought us to this point.
Those who fail to acknowledge that his essay is as disturbing as anything Al Franken did or as this thread implies, Hillary Clinton ever did, is not my problem. It is the hypocrisy that some but not all are held accountable for their words & deeds.

Glad you posted the snip from the link I hope everyone reading this thread sees it.
How you interpret it in your protecting him, is not how others will see it.

Thank you




 

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
194. You claim to be disturbed by Mr. Sanders's 'essay'.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:48 PM
Jan 2018

Let me take this at face value for a moment. I'm from Yorkshire and I was 18 years old in 1972. Could you please explain in some detail what disturbs you about what Mr. Sanders says in this short and concise article, and how and why? Your response below is deficient and insufficient.

Edit: for reference, here is Mr. Sanders's 1972 article:

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
196. I could give you some of the thousands of protest comments that caused him to be
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 12:01 AM
Jan 2018

..removed from the Women's convention.

They said it far better than I ever could & they wouldn't get hidden for saying the truth.

Google has them all if you really want to know why the words are a trigger.

This thread is about RW Talking points & the on going hypocrisy of " some but not all".

You figure it out.
Try post 121 for a glimpse into what got so many women pissed off that he cancelled the Convention.

Here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1972560








George II

(67,782 posts)
97. I don't think anyone is minimizing it.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:25 PM
Jan 2018

But some are using this as a Hillary Clinton character flaw even though she wasn't the harasser.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
188. Who ignored the advice of the Chief of Staff that the pervert should be fired?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:29 PM
Jan 2018

Who protected the pervert?

Why did the pervert get to keep his job and the victim was forced to transfer?

George II

(67,782 posts)
195. Hillary Clinton has issued a two-part tweet (because of the 140 character limit)...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:56 PM
Jan 2018

...you may want to read it.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
246. A Sanders' campaign victim said his campaign blamed her:
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:17 PM
Jan 2018

"The conversation with the lawyer made her uncomfortable. “It felt like I was being blamed,” she said. She suspects that Sanders plans to run for president again in 2020 and “they’re afraid of me being a roadblock to that.” Blessing did not return a request for comment "

Salsbury said it felt like she was being blamed. Victim blaming doesn't deserve outrage?? Let's not have double standards...

Response to R B Garr (Reply #246)

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
257. Ahh, from an anti-Hillary website??
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:48 PM
Jan 2018

I can't imagine posting anti-Bernie pictures. Double standards again.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
260. Your post 24: "Why did the staffers have to be moved?"
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:51 PM
Jan 2018

You asked in your post #24, "Why did the staffers have to be moved?"

Why did Sanders move TWO staffers? Looks like the outrage in your post 24 about a staffer being moved in the Clinton campaign is situational, at best. You don't take umbrage in TWO staffers being moved in the Sanders campaign.

And again with the selective outrage. The "intervene" part is out of context now that it's known that Sander's moved two staffers. LOL

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
261. You have zero evidence Sanders intervened personally or moved anyone.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:53 PM
Jan 2018

Nor invited these serial abusers to his birthday just 3 months ago.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
265. So now you're saying the victim is not believable??
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:59 PM
Jan 2018

I am quoting her own words from the article.

You also have no proof about Clinton, but a Clinton hit piece is all that is necessary for the situational outrage.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
267. Is she alleging Sanders personally intervened to save the abuser's job?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:04 PM
Jan 2018

I must have missed that part.

Can you point it out?

Thanks in advance.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
268. Where did Sanders personally intervene to dock his pay?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:07 PM
Jan 2018

Where did Sanders personally intervene to make sure that the perps received counselling? This just happened in 2016, not 8 years ago. Where are Sanders efforts to make sure this man never works again?

Thanks in advance.

Response to R B Garr (Reply #268)

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
273. Why aren't you concerned about the Sanders' campaign victims?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:37 PM
Jan 2018

Hmmm. That makes your comments rather flippant and not exactly substantive. Two females were treated dismissively.

It looks like your concern is more about Hillary bashing than real concern for the victims. The linked article here explains how BOTH campaigns had issues. Surely the victims on the Sanders campaign are just as important. Surely.

Are those lawyers that the Sanders' victims complained to still working?

Did Sanders' dock their pay?

Did they get counselling?

Thanks in advance.










lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
162. I'll read the actual story instead.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:09 PM
Jan 2018
"Mr. Strider...was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock.

He was fired after several months for workplace issues, including allegations that he harassed a young female aide, according to three people close to Correct the Record’s management."

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
170. Here's what happened in 2008 according to the NYT story.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:58 PM
Jan 2018
"Ms. O’Connell told colleagues she was concerned that the young woman making the allegations should not be demoted when she was moved from Mr. Strider’s supervision. The woman requested to have no more interactions with Mr. Strider, and she was moved to a different job within the campaign, reporting directly to Mike Henry, the deputy campaign manager.

The investigation into Mr. Strider’s conduct was described as brief, but it included a review of a number of emails he sent the young woman, who had shared an office with him.

A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton provided a statement from Utrecht, Kleinfeld, Fiori, Partners, the law firm that had represented the campaign in 2008 and which her advisers said has been involved on sexual harassment issues.

'To ensure a safe working environment, the campaign had a process to address complaints of misconduct or harassment. When matters arose, they were reviewed in accordance with these policies, and appropriate action was taken,' the statement said. 'This complaint was no exception.'"


Not everyone falls for inaccurate clickbait. Some people actually read the whole story, even though there are so many words.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
206. Yes, I read it.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:40 AM
Jan 2018

If that happened at my work, he'd have been gainfully unemployed. Promoted to Customer.

In fact, that was the recommendation at the time, but he was retained anyway, and the victim was moved.

Why.

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
238. It was not "the recommendation at the time".
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 11:21 AM
Jan 2018

It was the layman's reaction of two named and two unnamed advisors.

Recommendations came from the lawyers who conducted the investigation. Those recommendations were based on the legal requirements given the clearly articulated procedures in place and the terms of the employment contracts.


“To ensure a safe working environment, the campaign had a process to address complaints of misconduct or harassment. When matters arose, they were reviewed in accordance with these policies, and appropriate action was taken,” the statement said. “This complaint was no exception.”

Neither of the two named senior campaign advisors who expressed their layman's opinions to HRC resigned over the matter; both actively and publicly supported her candidacy in 2016 and served as campaign surrogates, and the matter seems to have been handled to the victim's satisfaction. All have declined to dignify the story with a public comment.

The NYT should frankly be ashamed of its inaccurate headline.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
348. I maintain, at my company, he'd have been dropped out the airlock. Even back in 2008.
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 12:31 PM
Jan 2018

What the fuck is in their contracts that prevents removing predators like that?

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
172. They changed the woman's work assignment, docked his pay,
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:15 PM
Jan 2018

required counseling, then fired him when he re-offended.

Meanwhile, Glenn Thrush is still at the NYT.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
211. Yes, it's what they do... we should have ZERO tolerance for sexual harassment.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 03:29 AM
Jan 2018

I don't give a shit who it is or what political party they belong to.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
325. I know... minimizing abuse is unacceptable
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 08:06 PM
Jan 2018

"What did we report about Arturo? For starters, a sexual harassment complaint by a staffer against a Latino surrogate that he covered up in Nevada. I witnessed the aftermath of that incident and accompanied the staffer to report it. We were jokingly told she might have enjoyed it if the man were younger. You can imagine how hard we didn’t laugh. Arturo and his deputy went out drinking that night, didn’t pay it another thought, and the next morning assigned two young female interns to the same surrogate we just reported. We objected vehemently and they reassigned them amidst great sighing."


www.latinorebels.com/2017/04/01/californias-34th-congressional-district-election-gets-ugly-and-public-with-allegations-of-sexual-harassment/


"Arturo is a good friend of ours," Sanders said. "He helped me during the campaign, and he and I just chatted tonight, so we’ll see where we go with that."


www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-will-bernie-sanders-endorse-his-former-1487700721-htmlstory.html dbc29

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
34. So a supervisor giving unwanted kissing and touching is ok now???
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:28 PM
Jan 2018

Just making sure...trump will be glad to hear that...

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
62. I think its time to raise a big stink about Rape Fantasies & why the writer is still hailed above al
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:09 PM
Jan 2018

Somehow that pathetic issue is NEVER held as accountable.
Why is that?!

That disgusting demeaning book is a trigger for many women still today.

Why is it kept from discussion. Lets ask NY Times & Andrea Greenspan. Maybe the writer would be willing to step down as he called for Al Franken to do.

Hypocrites

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
119. Mea culpa -
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:04 PM
Jan 2018

he published it in a lefty zine, and he downplays it.

Women fantasize about being raped.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
122. Never to be brought up again EVER by ANYONE too, as I'm told.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:10 PM
Jan 2018


Kinda hard to take someone's faux outrage about a creepy essay written in the 70s(??) when they can't even get the story straight. Next it will be he did a one man show at the local auditorium and realesed it on a Word Jazz album.

It would be funny if the faux outrage wasn't being used to excuse protecting an actual hands on serial sexual abuser in real time.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
185. I looked through the article.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:04 PM
Jan 2018

I didn't see where it said Sanders intervened to protect the job of a serial sexual abuser while having the VICTIM transferred. And then stood by while said serial abuser headed up an organization acting as one of his main surrogates.

Maybe you can point it out for me.

Thanks in advance.


Oh, and ...

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
245. Salsbury said she felt she was being blamed by the Sanders' campaign
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:13 PM
Jan 2018

"The conversation with the lawyer made her uncomfortable. “It felt like I was being blamed,” she said. She suspects that Sanders plans to run for president again in 2020 and “they’re afraid of me being a roadblock to that.” Blessing did not return a request for comment"

She said she felt like she was being blamed for being harassed. She said she suspected that Sanders was going to run for president again in 2020 and that she would be a roadblock to that. That's what the above quote from the article says. Blaming the victim.....sounds like a better plan is needed. Outrageous, isn't it??

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
247. Did sanders intervene to keep to sexual abuser and transfer the victim?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:20 PM
Jan 2018

Then keep a close personal relationship with the abuser?

Workplace sexual harassment is rampant.

Why protect the man/abuser and transfer the victim?

Why remain friends with the abuser?

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
249. No, he did not intervene. It's all in the article. Where is the outrage
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:22 PM
Jan 2018

over the victim blaming. Did Sanders' ensure this man never works again? Did he dock their pay?

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
308. Arturo is a good friend of ours," Sanders said.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:54 PM
Jan 2018
What did we report about Arturo? For starters, a sexual harassment complaint by a staffer against a Latino surrogate that he covered up in Nevada. I witnessed the aftermath of that incident and accompanied the staffer to report it. We were jokingly told she might have enjoyed it if the man were younger. You can imagine how hard we didn’t laugh. Arturo and his deputy went out drinking that night, didn’t pay it another thought, and the next morning assigned two young female interns to the same surrogate we just reported. We objected vehemently and they reassigned them amidst great sighing.


http://www.latinorebels.com/2017/04/01/californias-34th-congressional-district-election-gets-ugly-and-public-with-allegations-of-sexual-harassment/


"Arturo is a good friend of ours," Sanders said. "He helped me during the campaign, and he and I just chatted tonight, so we’ll see where we go with that."


http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-will-bernie-sanders-endorse-his-former-1487700721-htmlstory.html

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
334. I have a more accurate signature rooster pic for you
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 10:37 AM
Jan 2018


Some roosters are just tough old birds, especially when overdone.




 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
144. Here are the writings of 30 yr old Bernie Sanders.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:33 PM
Jan 2018

Because some never heard of it doesn't mean it didn't exist.

Its a pitiful read. Go for it & decide why it would trigger women.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/5/28/8682503/bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
76. Nice deflection
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:29 PM
Jan 2018

That is not how this works...someone else’s actions has nothing to do with this story right now, today.

If you want to start a thread regarding that topic I’ll have that discussion there but that is not what this is about and has not connection at all.

Sexual harassment in the workplace, a supervisor touching or kissing a subordinate is always bad, is always wrong and the victim should not be asked, required or forced to move or change positions.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
68. Let's put a face to this.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:19 PM
Jan 2018

Hey what's a little kiss on the cheek and a shoulder rub??

Bow chick a bow wow

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
121. Or saying women fantasize about being raped by three men
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:09 PM
Jan 2018

And a girl expresses her revolutionary cred by sleeping with her boyfriend:

“The revolution comes… when a girl pushes aside all that her mother has taught her and accepts her boyfriend’s love”.

I mean minimizing that is Bow chick a bow wow.

Right?

George II

(67,782 posts)
126. No. He was fired a few months after a subsequent infraction...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:14 PM
Jan 2018

...that he committed while working for a different organization five years later.

He wasn't "put in a position to do it again" by the Clinton campaign.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
221. Here. From a October 2014 article
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:44 AM
Jan 2018


Here's him working for a totally unrelated company:

But Strider isn’t too concerned. The Democrats failed in 2004, he explained, by not building a media operation that could respond to the Swift Boating of John Kerry. He doesn’t want Clinton to suffer from the same mistake in 2016. “One thing Nancy Pelosi has said to me is, ‘Burns, in politics, if you take a swing at somebody you can rest assured of one thing: They’re going to swing back. So why not prepare in advance?'”

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
147. He never worked for HRC after 2008.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:07 PM
Jan 2018

The steps taken when the complaint were lodged against him in 2008 were the procedures outlined in his employment agreement.

videohead5

(2,178 posts)
3. You would think
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:20 PM
Jan 2018

He molested the girl reading these headlines.he rubbed her shoulders and kissed her on the forehead and sent her unwanted e-mails.he got docked in pay.this is much less than Franken was accused of.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
35. I would think that if that happened to me I would be
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:28 PM
Jan 2018

afraid he would do it again. That means I would have to go to work every day with that fear constantly on my mind.

That is a hostile work environment. I would only feel safe if he were out of the picture. And if I liked my job I wouldn’t want to be the person needing to move out.

I am a guy so I don’t think that will happen to me but I am putting myself in her position. I would not trivialize it by saying he only touched her shoulder.

That is having empathy for the guy and ignoring the hell she has to go through daily.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
36. So a supervisor giving unwanted kissing and touching is ok now???
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:29 PM
Jan 2018

So a supervisor giving unwanted kissing and touching is ok now???
Just making sure...trump will be glad to hear that...

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
46. Really
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:49 PM
Jan 2018

You said:

You would think He molested the girl reading these headlines.he rubbed her shoulders and kissed her on the forehead and sent her unwanted e-mails


How should a person take that?

What is the line on when it’s “molesting” for a older male supervisor touching and kissing and sending unwanted emails to a young female subordinate?

When is wrong? Where he kisses or touches her?

Just trying to figure it out...when I was a supervisor I was always taught that touching and kissing direct reports was always bad...

videohead5

(2,178 posts)
48. So now it's all the same?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:55 PM
Jan 2018

I'm not saying it was right but it's not the same as grabbing something or pulling something out.she was moved to another position so it stopped and David Brock hired him in 2016 not Hillary.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
56. YES, its all the same
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:03 PM
Jan 2018

I’m a union shop steward and have been a supervisor for many years:
Sexual harassment in the workplace is SEXUAL HARASSMENT, it doesn’t matter in what form it comes in or to put it simply:
if your supervisor is touching or kissing you at work it is ALWAYS WRONG.

Why did she have to change jobs and leave her co-workers and friends? Why didn’t the supervisor?

Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)

azureblue

(2,146 posts)
6. here we go again with the half truth--
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:25 PM
Jan 2018

--attempts at distractions... This one is exceptionally weak. Gawd, the GOP is desperately grasping at anything to deflect and distract.

Shemp Howard

(889 posts)
7. Very confusing article.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:26 PM
Jan 2018

The article states that Hillary did not fire the staffer: "Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager at the time recommended that she fire the adviser, Burns Strider. But Mrs. Clinton did not."

Then the article says that the staffer was indeed fired: "He was fired after several months for workplace issues, including allegations that he harassed a young female aide..."

This is, unfortunately, the state of most journalism today.

dsc

(52,162 posts)
14. actually it isn't confusing
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:30 PM
Jan 2018

He wasn't fired in 2008 by Hillary but he was fired in 2016 by Brock or an agent of his. That said, I don't see where what she did was wrong. She docked his pay, reassigned the employee, and he apparently was annoying but not all that dangerous.

Shemp Howard

(889 posts)
18. I think I understand now.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:40 PM
Jan 2018

Based on what you posted, it seems (I guess) that he wasn't fired by Hillary at all. But years later he was hired - and then fired - by someone else entirely, David Brock.

As for how Hillary handled this, I wouldn't classify it as wrong, but it sure wasn't heroic either. The guy kept his position, and it was the woman who had to move.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
40. Reassigned the employee? Really? You're ok with that???
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:39 PM
Jan 2018

why should she have to change jobs because some sick asshole can't keep his hands to himself?

dsc

(52,162 posts)
72. Here the article is confusing
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:24 PM
Jan 2018

It sounds like her reassignment was a promotion since she was reporting directly to the 2nd in command. I admit, that is an assumption from the text and not directly stated. If it wasn't a promotion, then that would be a problem.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
78. Just curious. How do you feel about women being required to relocate seats on a plane...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:35 PM
Jan 2018

... over some religious nutjobbery?

Be honest.

How would you like to show up Monday morning in your new job with all your things because some asshole couldn't keep his hands to himself?

It's wrong and it's degrading. It's victim blaming on steroids.

The perpetrator should be fired. No ifs ands or butts. And his actions on the new job prove the point.

And a "promotion"???? I guess if you close one eye and squint the other one might see it that way.

Good morning everybody, I'm the sexual abuse victim and I'll be starting here today!!

dsc

(52,162 posts)
127. The article doesn't give a ton of detail
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:15 PM
Jan 2018

I would be amazed, and appalled if they disclosed the history of the move to the new position. I can say that under some circumstances I would want to be reassigned and under others I wouldn't. The lack of detail in this article makes it hard to judge just what I would want. The plane, give me an upgrade to business or first class and I would gladly move, otherwise not so much.

still_one

(92,219 posts)
82. It's news, but I find it amusing that the NY Times puts it on the same front page as their story
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:43 PM
Jan 2018

saying Trump wanted to fire Mueller

As for your statement regarding the NY Times being fake news, was it fake news when Judy Miller told us about the WMDs?

Does it even make you wonder why they hired a climate change denier Bret Stephens at a time when the trump administration and the republicans want to undo any gains made to curb green house gases, pollution, and exit the Paris Accords?

It was only a few months ago when the NY Times blamed the Democrats, and specifically President Obama for being responsible for pushing republicans to be climate change deniers because of the "Democratic hubris in the Obama years":

"The Republican Party’s fast journey from debating how to combat human-caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favoring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over cooperation and conciliation."

They then proceeded in the article to make excuses for the republicans by saying "most republicans do not believe climate change is a hoax"

“Most Republicans still do not regard climate change as a hoax,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist who worked for Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. “But the entire climate change debate has now been caught up in the broader polarization of American politics.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0


In another instance they did their usual false equivalency garbage between the republicans and Democrats through a video by Mark Scheffle and Shane O'Neill telling us how both republicans and Democrats have flip-flopped on Comey. It was so out of context it is pathetic. This is what the NY Times has become.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005090191/comey-fired-democrats-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Another example was when one of the Democrats on the FEC stepped down, the Times built the false equivalency argument that how there is deadlock because both sides won't budge. That was NOT the case at all, and was a gross distortion again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/fec-elections-ann-ravel-campaign-finance.html

In fact that report was so messed up, that the Democrat who resigned from the commission wrote a rebuttal to state the reality of the situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/dysfunction-and-deadlock-at-the-federal-election-commission.html

They have been doing the false equivalency schtick all through 2016, and they were right out there with the rest of the media outlets with headlines implying how Comey reopened the email investigation, while hidden between the void the fact was that the email investigation was not reopened. One has to wonder if that was their attempt at sensationalism, rather then putting it in proper context

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/30/ny-times-floods-front-page-fbi-letter-stories-while-acknowledging-it-didn-t-reopen-clinton-server/214202

There are plenty more examples, but suffice to say, the NY Times isn't even in the shadow of the newspaper it used to be


Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
85. No offense but tl;dr. Not interested in some Gish Gallop over how The NYT is fake news.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:48 PM
Jan 2018

Just call it fake news and I get your point.

still_one

(92,219 posts)
142. Is it the full story? I am not sure, that is my point, because the Times has been known to
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:32 PM
Jan 2018

leave key elements out. Not sure if you read my first response but I know for a fact they misrepresented the The Democrat at the FEC, because I personally know people on that committee, and the Times saying both republicans and Democrats were equally unwilling to compromise is at best a gross distortion, and at worst a lie

That is why one of the Democrats on that committee wrote an editorial response to the distortion

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
88. The NYT has had a vendetta against HRC since the Whitewater days.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:56 PM
Jan 2018

When they don't have actual facts against her, they talk about the "clouds" and "shadows" that surround her—that they themselves helped create. They are notorious. This is another hit piece. Is the sexual harasser from 10 years ago back in the news for some reason? Has he recently been caught again sexually harassing women in some new post? No. He's not the story. The story wasn't written to be about him. He's just the kernel they can build a hit piece on Hillary Clinton around.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
92. Umm. Did you read the article? He was rehired in 2016 and did it again while working on the campaign
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:13 PM
Jan 2018

Hardly ancient history.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
98. He wasn't rehired by Hillary Clinton.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:29 PM
Jan 2018

"he was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock."

See what the Times does? It was David Brock's group that hired him. The group wasn't working ON the campaign, it was separate from the campaign. "Supporting" a candidacy isn't the same thing as working for the candidate's campaign staff. But the Times wants you to draw that conclusion. Dropping into the passive voice (he "was hired" ) does the same thing. The writer is guiding you to make your own assumption that Hillary Clinton was the one who did the hiring.

Innuendo, the NYT is a master of it.


(Edited to remove an inadvertently created emoji)

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
137. Sorry. If it had been clear, you wouldn't have said the guy was "rehired," or
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:23 PM
Jan 2018

that he was rehired in 2016, or that he "did it again" while he worked on the campaign.

Read the article again: he was hired by the group Correct the Record in 2013, then fired a few months later. He never worked on the 2016 campaign.

"...Mr. Strider, who was Mrs. Clinton’s faith adviser, a co-founder of the American Values Network, and sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during the campaign, was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock.
He was fired after several months for workplace issues, including allegations that he harassed a young female aide..."

So his "did it again" happened in 2013. Correct the Record may have gone on to support Clinton's candidacy in 2016, but this guy wasn't even there by then. So what is the relevancy of Correct the Record's support of Clinton in 2016 to Strider's sexual harassment in 2013? None. Only that the Times want you to think that Clinton still had some connection with the guy. The NYT is blatantly deceptive, and—not to beat up on you—your confusion about the details is evidence of that.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
192. Correct The Record didn't exist until 2015 so there seems to be some discrepancy on the dates.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:41 PM
Jan 2018

Last edited Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:15 AM - Edit history (2)

The article says he went on to co-found American Values Network and THEN five years after that joined Correct The Record. So there may be a few years in between.

2013 or 2015 what does it matter?

When I say 2016 I'm not referring to January first to December 31st. The 2016 campaign started in 2013 or 2014 or 2015.

And Correct The Record didn't "go on to support" -- its sole purpose for being was to support and advocate and "work closely" with.

Correction: Correct The Record was in existence in 2014. The PAC may have been officially formed in 2015

Anyway, the pervert was employed at the Brock firm as of October 2014 per this profile in Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/david-brock-hillary-clinton-correct-the-record/

djacq

(1,634 posts)
10. How different is this from any HR response?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:28 PM
Jan 2018

And didn’t seek a response from HRC?
Another rabbit hole.

Pacifist Patriot

(24,653 posts)
15. It's not.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:31 PM
Jan 2018

The steps the campaign took appear to be perfectly acceptable from an HR perspective. They took the accusation seriously, took steps to reprimand and rehabilitate the accused, and protected the accuser from the accused. As long as the woman's other position was not inferior to the one she was reassigned from, I see nothing here worth gasping over.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
198. Well in this case "HR" recommended firing and the CEO protected a serial abuser.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 12:25 AM
Jan 2018

How is that acceptable from an HR perspective?

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
57. Theyve been schizoid about Trump to point of seemingly trolling us...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:04 PM
Jan 2018

And I wouldn’t be surprised if the press gives this a lot more ink than Stormy Daniels. Would you, after last year?

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
12. I find this part most disturbing:
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:29 PM
Jan 2018

Mr. Strider, who was Mrs. Clinton’s faith adviser, a co-founder of the American Values Network, and sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during the campaign, was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock.

Shemp Howard

(889 posts)
28. Actually he wasn't fired shortly thereafter.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:20 PM
Jan 2018

On the first reading of the article, I too took it that Strider was fired shortly after the 2008 complaint. The article says "he was fired after several months for workplace issues...".

But that firing evidently happened in 2016, when he was working for David Brock, not in 2008 when he was working for Hillary.

The article as a whole is poorly written. And at the end the author throws in Hillary's connection to Harvey Weinstein. That has nothing to do with the 2008 incident, and IMO shows the author's bias.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
148. No. He was hired five years after the 2008 campaign by Correct the Record.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:23 PM
Jan 2018

"Strider, who was Mrs. Clinton’s faith adviser, a co-founder of the American Values Network, and sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during the campaign, was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock."

He was hired in 2013 by Correct the Record (the independent group) and fired (by them) a few months later.

The reason it's confusing is because the writer adds the irrelevant detail of Correct the Record's support of Clinton's campaign in 2016. Your eye sees the date and makes the assumption that Strider was still connected to the group in that year.

Maggie Haberman writes clearly enough when she wants to. When she's writing about Donald Trump and the White House, for example. I believe she was being deliberately misleading here.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
155. Who gave Haberman the heads up to this story? She's solid RW
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:48 PM
Jan 2018

Who gave her the story?
Hmm?

Another Haberman sensational RW hit piece.
No one but Repubs defend her.

Response to Demit (Reply #148)

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
235. Sure, okay. And Correct the Record was launched in November 2013.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:57 AM
Jan 2018

We don't know the exact month he was fired, but the NYT story says it was several months later. Btw, the MJ article was published in the Sept/Oct issue, but the writer had met with Strider in June. But okay, say he was still with Connect the Record in October. If the NYT's information is accurate, that he worked there less than a year, he must've been fired very soon after that.

At any rate, by the time Hillary's campaign launched, in April of 2015, he was gone.

This all matters, to answer your question in post #192, because the NYT creates confusion by how it elides facts, and that's dishonest. The NYT was hellbent on creating the impression—that many people got, not just you—that Hillary Clinton rehired a man for her second campaign who had been disciplined for sexual harassment in her first campaign, and that wasn't true.

Just the very fact that we have to go to other sources to piece together what the facts actually are is enough to mistrust the supposed paper of record. When it comes to stories that involve Hillary Clinton, the New York Times is not to be trusted.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
239. Look, I don't know what argument you want to have, but
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 11:39 AM
Jan 2018

I'm not into it. My point was that the Times story was a piece of shitful innuendo and distortion, and all I wanted to do was correct the misperceptions it engendered, including yours of yesterday. You went & did your own research, so yay you.

I'll repeat my caveat to read NYT stories very carefully in future. Then I see no reason to continue with our conversation.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
31. Gee, someone with a history of sexual harassment gets hired again and harasses again?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:24 PM
Jan 2018

Whoddathunkit?

Let me ask you. Would you re-hire someone with a history of sexual harassment for a brand new job?

It's bad enough these pigs get away with this shit because it's hard to warn future employers and not run afoul privacy and defamation laws. But to rehire someone so it can happen again? That sucks.

kydo

(2,679 posts)
13. This is just the both sides do it BS. The real story is about Steve Wynn rethug money bag.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:30 PM
Jan 2018

Goper rich friend is in trouble. Something about rape. So naturally they drag this BS about Hillary. Makes perfect sense to the RWNJ then the rest of us in the real world.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
21. OR it's also a story, granted of smaller magnitude based on the accusations.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:46 PM
Jan 2018

Pretty sure the gop isn't also dragging out a Canadian politician for the same issue, as a deflection.

It really is that this kind of fuckery and abuse is practically everywhere. It has to end.

MFM008

(19,816 posts)
25. If she would have won
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:17 PM
Jan 2018

This ALONE would be enough to impeach her to republicans.
The topic for 3 more years.
Instead we get breaking news on top of
Breaking news with the maggot every day
Sometimes hourly.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
26. Wow, are we really this partisan?!?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:18 PM
Jan 2018
I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE SEEN “HE WAS JUST KISSING HER AND RUBBING HER SHOULDERS” TO MINIMIZE HIS ACTIONS JUST TO DEFEND A CANDIDATE YOU LIKE IS GROSS. HE WAS A SUPERVISOR AND SHE WAS A YOUNG LADY, A SUBORDINATE. WOW!!

NOT ONLY THAT YOU ARE ATTACKING THE PRESS and saying “fake news” because you don’t like this particular NYT article but you liked the one yesterday? that is embarrassing

Take this very same story, replace “trump” everywhere “Clinton” is and this place would be on fire about it but in this case it’s a series of excuses and equivocating.

No thought at all to the young women being sexually harassed and her feelings and that he was hired back in 2016 to harass more people, for 7 months, before finally being fired.

That a “religious advisor” was sexually harassing people but continued to give her religious advice?!? W. T. F.

Please tell me we are not doing this...IF YOU ARE SAYING ”he was just giving her unwanted kissing and touching, what’s the big deal”
YOU. ARE. WRONG.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
33. Liberals wait For full facts before the outrage. But, free country. Tempest in a Foxxx teapot.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:27 PM
Jan 2018

Of course you knew cons would come up with another distraction after their massive failures of the past few days. Again we fall into the same trap...

p.s. it was not Clinton doing the alleged harassing, whatever it was, in 2008. Or 2016. Kind of different than Shitler.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
42. No, its not
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:40 PM
Jan 2018

If (the word is IF) she knew of the harassment in 2008 but hired him again in 2016 anyway to be her “religious advisor” than that is wrong no matter which way you say it.

Not saying it’s 100% fact but this story is pretty detailed and sourced. It’s unlikely to be that far from reality.

Did you say the same thing about the NYT article yesterday about trump trying to fire Mueller last June or did you accept their story and their sources without question?

Be glaze over the fact that people are making excuses for this person’s behavior by saying “he was just giving his female subordinate unwanted touching and kissing, so what” and saying “fake news” is a thing now...

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
47. He was her religious advisor
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:51 PM
Jan 2018

I think it’s a fair assumption that she would have a say in who her religious advisor is, wouldn’t you?

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
174. No, Brock hired him in 2013. Read the story again.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:17 PM
Jan 2018

He hired Strider five years after the 2008 campaign. That is, in 2013. A few months later Strider was fired.

Strider never worked for Hillary again. He never worked for Brock again. He had no connection to the 2016 campaign at all.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
216. From article
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:08 AM
Jan 2018

This is from the article, in the OP:

was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 candidacy


Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock


Not sure how this makes it right or “ok”.

If a supervisor is kissing their subordinate, touching their subordinate without permission or sending a subordinate lewd and sexual emails at work it is always wrong and that supervisor should be fired. No ifs, no ands and no buts.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
227. I am merely correcting the misinformation that he was hired in 2016 by Hillary.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:19 AM
Jan 2018

I am not arguing that anything he did was right or ok.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
297. Not just what he did
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:24 PM
Jan 2018

But what the campaign did in 2008:
They left a guy that was a sexual predator continue to work on the campaign in his hired role but relocated and reassigned the victim away from her coworkers and friends.

Not to mention how do you think, what message does it send, if you are young women that has to work as a subordinate to this guy? I’ll tell you what it says “shut the fuck up and take it or you’ll get reassigned too”

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
305. The story doesn't say that the victim was moved away from her co-workers and friends.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:45 PM
Jan 2018
"The woman requested to have no more interactions with Mr. Strider, and she was moved to a different job within the campaign, reporting directly to Mike Henry, the deputy campaign manager."

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
317. Again what is with this white washing
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:38 PM
Jan 2018

I am a shop steward and a supervisor and I can tell you that leaving the supervisor in place and moving the victim is definitely the wrong message.

It creates all kinds of issues:
1. It makes other staff question the validity of the story that they likely only know through rumors.

2. It makes the victim think they did something wrong, they have to leave while the sexual predator remains in the very same job, all but untouched.

3. It empowers the predator to do it again as he realizes his “value” to the organization outweighs the issues he may cause

4. It was unlikely that this women was the only one he was harassing in some way and moving her and leaving him puts them on notice to “shut up or you will get moved or let go too”. How many women did we never hear from because of this poor response? We may never actually know.

He continued to be a sexual predator and in 2015 was harassing yet another young female subordinate but they at did the right thing this time and fired him once they found out. If they had done that in 2008 think of all the victims they might have saved...

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
321. What did I make up? What narrative?
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 06:07 PM
Jan 2018

The narrative that sexual harassment in the workplace is wrong no matter what political party identifier is after their name?

I campaigned for HRC in 2016 and think she is an amazing person and would have been a great president.

This was a significant mistake that allowed a sexual predator to prey on his subordinates and that mistake has to be addressed and talked about openly.

We don’t fix these things by white washing or otherwise minimizing their significance.

The list I gave you is real and taken into consideration every time..
That this guy did these things is not in dispute, we have actual emails, he should have been fired.

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
327. Somehow
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 08:37 PM
Jan 2018
"She was moved to a different job within the campaign, reporting directly to Mike Henry, the deputy campaign manager."

magically morphed into

"They relocated and reassigned the victim away from her coworkers and friends."

How did that happen?


angrychair

(8,702 posts)
330. Because that is what happened
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 08:46 PM
Jan 2018

What, you going to imply it was a promotion? She only has to get sexually assaulted to get it...

She was moved from the job she was hired to do to another area, one that is logical to assume creates complete separation from her former coworkers and friends at the office as that is kind of the point.

More importantly, he stayed. He got to continue in his leadership role and continue managing people and one would assume, since he never stopped as he was still doing it in 2014/15, sexually harassing/assaulting other women that at that point, seeing he wasn’t removed for doing it the first time, is immune from termination.

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
332. "It is logical to assume..."
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 09:07 PM
Jan 2018

Actually, no, it is not logical.

Reasonable people do not assume facts that are not in evidence, and they certainly don't make stuff up out of whole cloth. Many would question the judgement and the motives of those who rely on such tactics.

narrative (n):
a story that connects and explains a carefully selected set of supposedly true events, experiences, or the like, intended to support a particular viewpoint or thesis.

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
345. She may have wanted to go. I wanted out of my department after having a guy keep making the moves on
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 08:34 AM
Jan 2018

me...it was embarrassing. You have no idea about the circumstances of this...and this is just a bash Clinton...even when we have no power some can't resist bashing a Democrat. Sen. Sanders had the same thing happen...so why not address that? This sort of thing is meant to distract us from the Trump mess...personally I won't fall for Right wing bullshit (the story first appeared last year recycled). Hillary Clinton is a private citizen...I don't care about this...not even a little bit...and by resurrecting this story, Sen. Sanders might have to explain what happen during his campaign...we just don't need this shit right not. And don't talk to me about the 'liberal' Times as they have gone after the Clintons for years.

yardwork

(61,650 posts)
214. You need to calm down and reread the article.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:45 AM
Jan 2018

The article itself is written in a confusing manner, but your presentation is incorrect.

The Clinton campaign did not hire him back in 2016.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
218. He was hired to run an aligned PAC
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:30 AM
Jan 2018

Not sure how this makes it right or “ok”.

If a supervisor is kissing their subordinate, touching their subordinate without their permission or sending a subordinate lewd and sexual emails at work it is always wrong and that supervisor should always be fired. No ifs, no ands and no buts.

yardwork

(61,650 posts)
225. And you need to read my post again. You are making wild accusations.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 09:57 AM
Jan 2018

Don't you EVER accuse me of defending sexual harassment. I have never said what you just accused me of saying. Ever.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
311. No just clarifying with all the hair splitting
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:02 PM
Jan 2018

Never said you did and was not trying to imply that so for that I apologize. What I did say is that he did work for the SuperPAC Correct The Record that was founded by Brock and so closely aligned that they were virtually in the same building. He was not an insignificant staffer but a leader in that organization and would seem unlikely that she would not have known it or given its critical role in the campaign, indirectly approved it.

There are way to many posts on here making excuses or actually calling it “fake news” or worse that “kissing or rubbing her shoulders wasn’t a big deal” and hair splitting or equivocating things that don’t matter to this issue.

The point of is not to trash or bash but to understand the hows and whys.
This was a serious mistake on the part of the Clinton campaign and we should not sugarcoat it or shoot the messenger in order to learn from this mistake and prevent it from happening again.

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
310. He was hired as a senior advisor to a PAC seven years later.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:01 PM
Jan 2018

Where's Maggie and Amy's outrage over the fact that Glenn Thrush still has a job at the NYT? How on earth can Maggie Haberman be working with the piggish Glenn knowing what she knows about his history of victimizing young women?

I guess if you're a Times reporter and there's money to be made on a book deal, harassment and abuse can be written off dismissively as "bad judgement". Cha-ching!

https://www.vox.com/2017/12/20/16803306/new-york-times-glenn-thrush-not-fired

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/20/16678094/glenn-thrush-new-york-times

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
315. Please dont do that
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:22 PM
Jan 2018

Don’t deflect or equivocate on an issue this important, it should be beneath us as Dems.

He was not a “senior advisor for a PAC” but was president of “the” SuperPAC for Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Correct The Record:

According to a Mother Jones interview with Strider from September 2014,he managed the organization’s day-to-day operations, including “building an exhaustive database of factoids documenting Clinton’s career, as well as compiling opposition research on her putative opponents.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/1/26/16936886/hillary-clinton-faith-adviser-burns-strider-sexual-harassment

There are way to many posts on here making excuses or actually calling it “fake news” or worse that “kissing or rubbing her shoulders wasn’t a big deal” and hair splitting or equivocating things that don’t matter to this issue.

The point of is not to trash or bash but to understand the hows and whys.
This was a serious mistake on the part of the Clinton campaign and we should not sugarcoat it or shoot the messenger in order to learn from this mistake and prevent it from happening again.


lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
318. Don't tell me what to do or not to do. Save your lectures for Maggie Haberman.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:52 PM
Jan 2018

The 2008 Clinton campaign followed the recommendations of legal counsel. The accused never worked for HRC after. Correct the Record was famously led by David Brock.

Those truly who truly want to "learn from this mistake [sic] and prevent it from happening again" should spend their efforts on present cases, not events of a decade ago. Hillary Clinton is a private citizen. Why on earth would anyone be concerned that she would make "these mistakes" [sic] again?

Where's the outrage over Glenn Thrush's continued employment at the Times? Why is the sanctimonious Maggie Haberman still working on a book with him?

Funny how the very concerned are not concerned enough to address current abuses in real time, at this moment, right now at the New York Times. It gives the game away.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
63. A distraction? Going to go with that hand-wave?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:11 PM
Jan 2018

Kent Hehr and Patrick Brown in Canada just resigned over sexual harassment. Is that the GOP too, dredging up a smoke screen, or is it maybe that SEXUAL HARRASSMENT IS FUCKING EVERYWHERE AND IT'S JUST BARELY STARTING TO CREEP OUT OF THE SHADOWS?

We need to re-examine the brand of narcissist we select for political positions, as well as their advisors and staffers.

This issue is bigger than us/them. It's everywhere. Both parties here. All over in other countries with more than two major parties. It's in politics. It's in religion. It's in business. It's in sports. You fucking name it.

LisaM

(27,813 posts)
37. I don't think anyone is saying it was okay. I'm not reading that anywhere.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:33 PM
Jan 2018

They are saying that there were repercussions (clearly, he was not helped by counseling, but that's a different issue, IMO), rather than that the perpetrator was "shielded" as the headline suggests.

When he was hired again, it was at an entirely different job and he lost that job, too. So again, he suffered consequences, as he should have.

It's obvious to me that someone's been hanging on to this information for a couple of years, waiting to produce it if something came up against the RNC. I definitely think that's one of Andrea Mitchell's tactics, sit on something so she can produce it in response to another incident.

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
51. Not calling out specific people
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:57 PM
Jan 2018

But I strongly suggest you read through this thread again...there are several “just touching” or “fake news”ish post here...I find the “she was moved” as being ok way to manage it as bullshit...why did she have to change jobs because she was sexually harassed but her supervisor!?!

So the victim has to leave the position she was hired to do, move away from friends and co-workers to another area because she was sexually harassed by her supervisor?!? She has to pay a price?!? Wow!

LisaM

(27,813 posts)
53. I couldn't get into the NYT article, so I don't know all the details.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:59 PM
Jan 2018

I don't know what position she had and which one she went to, so I can't speculate on that (and no, I don't think she should have to leave a job she liked to take one she didn't like, but I don't know that's what happened). I would appreciate reading the details on that if someone has them.

Cuthbert Allgood

(4,921 posts)
43. Two thoughts which probably won't be popular:
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:45 PM
Jan 2018

1. So it's OK because it's a liberal? We need to be consistent.
2. What if the EXACT same string of events happened, but it was Bernie's campaign. Would so many people on DU be saying everything is great? And if you answer yes, I don't believe you.

jmbar2

(4,890 posts)
44. From an HR perspective...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:45 PM
Jan 2018

There are a lot of details missing here, but...

From an HR perspective, they may have not had enough legal evidence to fire him for misconduct, hence the counseling, and reassignment of the young lady.

What really disgusts me is that he's just another fake Christian hypocrite. It's time to call an end to sucking up to the evangelical deplorables. They have revealed themselves to be snakes in the grass, not a constituency to be appeased any more.

The empressof all

(29,098 posts)
49. Exactly ...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:55 PM
Jan 2018

We really don't know all the facts that would warrant a legal dismissal. Unfortunately many of these work place abuses fall through the legal cracks. Unfortunately accepting the label of Evangelical Christian now a days may warrant additional scrutiny of someone's character. I know for me it certainly makes me feel a little dicey about being around them....It seems to me that they seem not to be folks who really follow in the steps of what Jesus teaches.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
60. They had suggestive emails sent in the middle of the night by a married man.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:08 PM
Jan 2018

Apparently it was enough for the person who did the actual investigation to recommend firing. That recommendation was overruled by the boss.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
94. From an HR perspective: BULL
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jan 2018

If you are employed at will, your employer does not need good cause to fire you. In every state but Montana (which protects employees who have completed an initial "probationary period" from being fired without cause), employers are free to adopt at-will employment policies, and many of them have.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/employment-at-will-definition-30022.html

awesomerwb1

(4,268 posts)
59. She's not president
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:05 PM
Jan 2018

That's what I tell trumpers when they go on about H Clinton.

SHE'S NOT PRESIDENT.

November 18 is coming. Focus.

videohead5

(2,178 posts)
65. I Still
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:15 PM
Jan 2018

Think we would be better off if she was president instead of what we have now.sure Hillary should have fired him but she did not because she knew him.people make mistakes.I've made mistakes but Trump has made more than Hillary ever will.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
67. She's not even in talks of running for 2020. Like some are.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:18 PM
Jan 2018

The wording in Rape Fantasies makes me want to vomit.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
81. How about who blocked the firing recommended by the investigating party which then ...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:42 PM
Jan 2018

... required the VICTIM to be forced to change jobs because some grabby asshole (pictured below) can't keep his lips to himself?

Nothing?

BlueTsunami2018

(3,492 posts)
73. Faith adviser, what a shock.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:25 PM
Jan 2018

What a pointless position in the first place. This could have been avoided if no one was hired to do this needless job.

democrank

(11,096 posts)
75. Swap a Republican's name for Hillary Clinton's name in this article
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:28 PM
Jan 2018

and see if any of the replies to this post would change. What's your best guess?

If this article is true, Clinton was wrong. Period.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
91. If the Republican was out of politics, not running for anything? Say, Chris Christie?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:11 PM
Jan 2018

Bob Dole or Jeb Bush or Ron Paul?

You'd say, Okay, that happened in their campaign from years ago, and how it was handled was wrong...but why hang this on him now? What's the point of this story?

As a matter of fact, DID the NYT dig into any OTHER politician's campaign from years past to see if there was sexual harassment going on? If not, why not? Those are the questions I would ask.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
89. Is this the first scandal where HR actually took action in a complaint- wasnt burying the story
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:57 PM
Jan 2018

And paying bribes established as pretty much how it works?

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
115. It's a pretty glaring example of HR recommending firing, management overruling HR...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:59 PM
Jan 2018

... and then punishing the victim with a transfer.

And yeah, a transfer under those circumstances is punishment. It's degrading.

He should have been the one packing up his stuff. Not her.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
131. Its a rare example because the man actually faced consequences is what it is. Thats what is
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:16 PM
Jan 2018

Missing from the stories about Trump and Wynn and countless other republicans. If you don’t get how glaring the difference is- and how it enabled actual rapes to continue - I don’t know what to say to you. The GOP is going to blame women for all of the shit men did- and obvs you’ll help them, when it suits you.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
153. Absurd Conclusion on your part.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:41 PM
Jan 2018

There is nothing in the "news" article to support what you have written.

Yavin4

(35,442 posts)
90. Is this never ending Hillary hate a not to subtle message to all female politicians?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:59 PM
Jan 2018

Don't you dare run for president because if you do, the negative campaigning will never cease. Even if you lose, it will continue.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
93. I don't think so, really. Hillary Clinton is sui generis. She has been the special
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:15 PM
Jan 2018

object of hate for decades, especially for the New York Times. They will hound her until the day she dies.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
154. Exactly. Remember the NYT nasty firing of Jill Abramson?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:46 PM
Jan 2018

First woman executive editor at NY times 2014-accused by male subordinate of being "pushy". Jill got dumped and he got her job.

Mike Nelson

(9,959 posts)
100. I've seen TV and read...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:36 PM
Jan 2018

...some stories about this man. In every case, the story angle makes Hillary Clinton the "guilty" party. She did something, at least - and we don't know if the woman agreed with the actions taken. I'm wondering if "chose to shield" is fair - makes it sound like Hillary approved of the harassment or did not believe the young woman.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
125. So Hillary is at fault for Brock too? Interesting. If she believed the punishment from HR was
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:13 PM
Jan 2018

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Fair and he learned the error of his ways? If there were no more reports of wrong doing you think he should be unemployed forever? That’s interesting.

And yet not one word about a cover up- instead of punishment- over at the Sanders campaign. Not one word. Stop pretending to give a shit about women, it’s obvious you do not.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
104. It sounds like to me, she followed the law, investigated,
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:44 PM
Jan 2018

disciplined and moved him away from the victim.

Al Franken is the one who got slammed unfairly.

My god, compare this to Trump. Imagine what the Repubs would be saying if he were a Democrat. The religious right would be out with pitchforks.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
112. "he rubbed her shoulders and kissed her on the forehead and sent her unwanted emails"
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 05:54 PM
Jan 2018

Why is not everyone outraged by this?

Why are some here excusing this abusive behavior?

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
176. We are discussing what the proper response is- equating cover ups to reprimands is bullshit....
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:22 PM
Jan 2018

And I suspect many here know that and have an axe to grind. It’s kind of obvious some would love to smear Hillary with this while ignoring how common this behavior - and covering it up- actually has been. Yeah, I know people hate putting things in context when they could just slime a Dem though.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
202. Once again, we see people pretending to give a damn about women and using any story they can cook up
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:00 AM
Jan 2018

To discredit women. Right wingers do this shit all the time, so do Hillary haters.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
146. Wow, Salsbury has an interesting story about the toxic Sanders'
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:02 PM
Jan 2018

environment. Quote from article, "Salsbury’s account isn’t the first allegation of a toxic workplace in the Sanders campaign."

She also describes attempts to cover up. Wow. Looks like some accountability is necessary here.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
240. Hi, Cha! Glass houses indeed. I dont see any ALL CAPS OUTRAGE
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 11:51 AM
Jan 2018

over this poor young woman on the Sanders’ campaign. Very selective outrage on display here, but a look at the names and it all adds up.

Feigned outrage about Hillary is why we have Trump.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
307. Exactly, RB.. they don't want to
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:46 PM
Jan 2018

even know about Jordon Salsbury and what she had to say.

"Feigned" is right.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
135. She probably should have fired him day one. Can we now focus on what is ACTUALLY
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:20 PM
Jan 2018

important like NAZIS taking over our government?

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
151. Nobody "chose to shield him". The campaign followed the procedures in place
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:38 PM
Jan 2018

as per his employment agreement according to the law firm on retainer that handled the complaint.

I am a bit disappointed that Maggie Haberman allowed her name to appear under the boilerplate, misleading headline, but the minute I saw Amy Chozick's name in the byline, it all made sense.

No dear, you don't get to absolve yourself for your hand in putting Trump in the White House by reporting yet another ginned-up Clinton scandal.

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/search?q=chozick+clinton&max-results=20&by-date=true

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
217. Yeah, um no.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:20 AM
Jan 2018

I doubt there was a procedure in place for the Chief of Operations to do an investigation, find the accusations disturbing and true, recommend firing the offender and the get overruled by the candidate.

That doesn't sound like any "procedure" I've ever seen.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
152. News Report or Propaganda Hit Piece?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:39 PM
Jan 2018

Statement from law firm representing the Clinton Campaign of 2018:

A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton provided a statement from Utrecht, Kleinfeld, Fiori, Partners, the law firm that had represented the campaign in 2008 and which her advisers said has been involved on sexual harassment issues.

“To ensure a safe working environment, the campaign had a process to address complaints of misconduct or harassment. When matters arose, they were reviewed in accordance with these policies, and appropriate action was taken,” the statement said. “This complaint was no exception.”

Question: was the parser an employee of the campaign. What was the process for harassment complaints and the consequences for harassment. Were the specified consequences adhered to? ? What specified role did H. Clinton have in that process, if any? Which employees were responsible for ensuring that the process was followed?

There is insufficient information in the article to allow us to conclude that H. Clinton "shielded" the person accused of harassment-as the headline writer obviously concluded.

The accused harasser had his pay docked and was to attend counseling. (we are told he did not complete the latter-were there consequences)?

I would like to see a fact-based follow up.

As for the New York Times and women, I have two words: Jill Abramson.
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bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
177. Chose to reprimand, punish and mandate treatment for....
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:32 PM
Jan 2018

Fuck Maggie Haberman and her partner Glenn Thrush.

hamsterjill

(15,222 posts)
207. Im always skeptical of these stories about Hillary
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:56 AM
Jan 2018

She’s not President nor is she running for any elected office. Could this be yet again defection from the other side?

But as the good Democrats that we are, let’s go ahead and skewer her anyway, right???!!! (Sarcasm, of course.)

rurallib

(62,423 posts)
226. I am with you on this
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:03 AM
Jan 2018

Seems like every time Republicans fuck up mightily, the paper of record (NYT) can dig into their files and find a story about some prominent Dem (Hillary is always first choice) to 'counter balance' the impact.

Sounds to me like Clinton addressed the issue at the time.

Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)

kacekwl

(7,017 posts)
233. So Hillary fucked up, she is NOT the president, she is not
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:44 AM
Jan 2018

running for anything she is a private citizen now . Why the outrage here and of course the MSM on a year's old story. This is purposely out there now to distract and cause more divide and mistrust for the democratic party and the deplorables hate for Hillary. Seems to be working once again.

tenderfoot

(8,437 posts)
253. Faux outrage bullshit
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:46 PM
Jan 2018

She did something about it at the time, too bad if it wasn't enough for some. Boy, the country so dodged a bullet with her defeat.

mcar

(42,334 posts)
254. NYT suspended Thrush 4 weeks in 2017,
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 01:46 PM
Jan 2018

but slams HRC for suspending the guy for 5 weeks in 2008!




The Clinton campaign suspended Mr. Strider for 5 weeks and forced him to undergo counseling. The New York Times suspended Mr. Thrush for about 4 weeks and forced him to undergo counseling.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210150243

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
271. I am glad the women was comfortable enough to come forward withing the camp and that
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 02:31 PM
Jan 2018

the Clinton had a procedure in place to address harassment. My understanding is that the women continued on in the campaign and that the man was disciplined at the time--including moving him to a different job. I also think the #metoo movement now has made us all more sensitive to sexual harassment---which is a good thing. Would it have been handled differently by the Clinton camp if it had happened yesterday?? I think so! --IMHO it would be zero tolerance had it happened yesterday.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
329. Look who's lapping it up.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 08:38 PM
Jan 2018

Maggie haberman and glenn thrush (who was suspended for 4 weeks for sexual harassment).. are also writing a book on trump.

Glenn Thrush, Suspended Times Reporter, to Resume Work but Won’t Cover White House

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/business/media/glenn-thrush-suspension-white-house.html

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
336. Yep . . .
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 04:45 PM
Jan 2018

like dogs to vomit. Somethings never change I guess though you'd think they would.

p.s. aloha Cha!

samnsara

(17,622 posts)
304. several years ago hubby was confronted with this decision...
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 04:42 PM
Jan 2018

...in a pharmacy and the ONLY other pharmacist had been accused of harassing a female employee. Hubby was the manager and had talks with both of them. Hubbys a very fair person and a raging feminist. He NEEDED both employees. NOW! Firing one of them was out of the question so he had to make a bad situation workable for the employees and the business. His pharmacist agreed to stay away from the female employee and she felt OK with that. She didn't want the guy fired she wanted to be believed...and she felt ok and empowered with him being reprimanded and told to stay the hell away from her.

Crucifixion isn't always the only answer.

Hubby said if he absolutely didn't need the other pharmacist he would have sacked him right there.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
349. Firing an employee is never out of the question.
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 12:35 PM
Jan 2018

Re-frame it. If he started stealing opiates, still beyond the realm of possibility to replace him?

I doubt it.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
350. Hillary Clinton was never going to fit perfectly into the role of women's savior.
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 12:44 PM
Jan 2018

She was far from the only employer in 2008 treating the targets as the problem instead of getting rid of the offenders.

I am still glad she's been there, helping to move the needle. Let's learn from her missteps as well as her more enlightened leadership.

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