Hillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008
Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON A senior adviser to Hillary Clintons 2008 presidential campaign who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young subordinate was kept on the campaign at Mrs. Clintons request, according to four people familiar with what took place.
Mrs. Clintons 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. Clintons 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. Clintons 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 Records 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
LisaM
(27,813 posts)How is this "shielding" exactly?
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)LisaM
(27,813 posts)I'm just saying, I don't think the accusations against Hillary really have legs.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)He gets to keep his job and also gets to help run another organization for his deeds. She gets a transfer.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)But so long as you get to use it to bash Dems....right?
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)He looks very old and tough.
Maybe he's done.
George II
(67,782 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)I mean like you know, creating and fast tracking legislation like Sierra Blanca, or brushing off writing that women fantasize about rape?
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Go read the article.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Women On Clinton And Sanders Campaigns Allege Sexual Harassment
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-sanders-campaign-sexual-harassment_us_5a0dfdf2e4b045cf43705417
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 youre 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 theyre afraid of me being a roadblock to that. Blessing did not return a request for comment.
Wonder why we didn't hear more about this?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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)Did you?
Another member of the group confirmed her account, saying Salsbury had been sexually harassed.
Salsbury, who wasnt 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)....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.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Hope that helped.
George II
(67,782 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Another member of the group confirmed her account, saying Salsbury had been sexually harassed.
Salsbury, who wasnt 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)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.
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)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)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)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.
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George II
(67,782 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Unacceptable. That woman is EVIL!
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)And OMG VEGAN RECIPES WERE EXCHANGED!!
Unforgiveable! That neocon witch should be burned at the steak!!!
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ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Not seeing that anywhere.
Here's a tweet for you:
Link to tweet
/photo/
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-congressional-candidate-arturo-carmona-1491016048-htmlstory.html
delisen
(6,044 posts)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)private citizen...yawn. Don't fall for such nonsense.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)Earlier this year, as he was running unsuccessfully for Congress in Californias 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 campaigns 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 didnt take the allegations seriously, Mendieta wrote in a Medium post.
Arturo and his deputy went out drinking that night, didnt 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.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)career path.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)The fact he still has a job makes her look like a trouble maker.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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.)
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Do you have documentation?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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."
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)R B Garr
(16,954 posts)The victims said they felt like they were being blamed:
Arturo and his deputy went out drinking that night, didnt 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)"249. No, he did not intervene. It's all in the article."
Nice try to muddy the waters.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Nice try to muddy the waters.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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)If theres 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.
Isnt this what Faux News does too, turn it around to blame someone else?
You know you dont have to respond to every supposed outrage, dont you?
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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.
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)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 its a Sanders bashing thread and can ignore it if they want to.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)and express your personal hangups about individuals, you should start a thread about that. Your selective outrage concern is noted.
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)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 wasnt 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)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)It wasnt a hit piece on the Clinton campaign, I think youre a little sensitive.
Im certain that every campaign has its share of people behaving badly, including the Clinton and Sanders campaigns. Im just asking why every post about the Clinton campaign is automatically turned around to target Sanders and his campaign. Arent we all working to achieve the same goals, more or less?
Maybe the article shouldnt 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 dont see the point of bashing either of them.😀
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)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 werent tolerated. There was a noticeable bias in favor of Clinton. Personally, with what is happening in the country now, I dont think we should criticize either of them. Were supposed to be on the same side.
You should take your own suggestion and read the article in the original post, Sanders name isnt even mentioned. Dont resort to Faux News tactics.
And please dont 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)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)Its like talking to a brick wall.
Why dont you start a thread bashing Sanders instead of butting in to every other thread with your criticisms? Then its easy for people to ignore it.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)Welcome to DU. You should take your own advice.
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)But theres nothing there.
Welcome to DU.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)Ciao.
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)Why try to divide Sanders/Clinton supporters? The campaign is over for both of them, and look what were stuck with.
Im not against you.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)Theres hypocrisy on both sides, and what does it matter? Were still stuck with Trump. Why dont we rise above fighting with each other and target those who are the enemies of our country?
The point is, I dont want to start yet another thread about Hillary vs Bernie. We should move on. I dont want to criticize either of them.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)and if you say you will stop doing it.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)on Hillary. I do, so I'll continue posting what I want. Thanks for your concern,
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)You dont 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 havent. We have all lost.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)I appreciate your principled persistence.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)Its 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 thats 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. Thats why these personal attacks are so transparent. ....
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)about Bernie.
In the meantime, Ill 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 theyre from.
You should take your own advice.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)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)Again.
Just admit you dont care about the hypocritical and selective outrage about harassment victims because its a Hillary hit piece. Others do, so Ill post accordingly.
Thanks for your concern.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)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)You are the only one trying to make it about the primaries.
You gave a good day, too.
George II
(67,782 posts)....to the satisfaction of his victim.
The 2008 Clinton Campaign has been disbanded and distant history.
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)Im not criticizing Clinton or her campaign, there are employees with undesirable behaviors in every campaign, Im sure.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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
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R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)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.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)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)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.'
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)former9thward
(32,025 posts)After he was put in a position to do it again.
azureblue
(2,146 posts)Kiss her on the head? Really, now....
former9thward
(32,025 posts)What else should they submit to and shut up about it?
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)former9thward
(32,025 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Not even in the same ball park.
George II
(67,782 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Now that's some irony!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)It's called ZERO tolerance for a reason.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)our candidate was tangentially involved?
Knock it off.
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AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I don't think he was given a pass. The primary may have tracked differently if not for that issue.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)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.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Except by you hundreds of times.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Someone stopped that disgusting writing from being in the news.
Like Sierra Blanca, Amber Alert , Magnitsky...& more
Funny how that happens..not
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Did you dig through his trash?
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)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)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)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.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Not important enough? Or he deserves a pass on everything?
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)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.
Me.
(35,454 posts)scum bag or not
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Unless you are speaking of Trump, but even he didn't write down anything like that... Not sure if he can write...
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Bernie called it dumb.
He was 30 yrs old
Women called it sick.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)So, no, no candidate wrote anything like that.
George II
(67,782 posts)Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)If you can't refresh my recall, it's like it never happened.
George II
(67,782 posts)Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Response to Wwcd (Reply #181)
Post removed
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)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)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)..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
Unless we're not going to believe our lying eyes
George II
(67,782 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)But some are using this as a Hillary Clinton character flaw even though she wasn't the harasser.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)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)...you may want to read it.
4rivers
(7 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)R B Garr
(16,954 posts)"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 theyre 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...
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R B Garr
(16,954 posts)I can't imagine posting anti-Bernie pictures. Double standards again.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)Nor invited these serial abusers to his birthday just 3 months ago.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)I must have missed that part.
Can you point it out?
Thanks in advance.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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.
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R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)lapucelle
(18,275 posts)"Mr. Strider...was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clintons 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 Records management."
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)lapucelle
(18,275 posts)"Ms. OConnell told colleagues she was concerned that the young woman making the allegations should not be demoted when she was moved from Mr. Striders 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. Striders 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)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)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)What the fuck is in their contracts that prevents removing predators like that?
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)required counseling, then fired him when he re-offended.
Meanwhile, Glenn Thrush is still at the NYT.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)I don't give a shit who it is or what political party they belong to.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)"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 didnt laugh. Arturo and his deputy went out drinking that night, didnt 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 well 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)Just making sure...trump will be glad to hear that...
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)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
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)How did a book that never existed trigger Women?
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)That was years before he published a book.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Go read the post I was responding to.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)he published it in a lefty zine, and he downplays it.
Women fantasize about being raped.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)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.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Women On Clinton And Sanders Campaigns Allege Sexual Harassment
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-sanders-campaign-sexual-harassment_us_5a0dfdf2e4b045cf43705417
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)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)"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 theyre 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)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)over the victim blaming. Did Sanders' ensure this man never works again? Did he dock their pay?
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)http://www.latinorebels.com/2017/04/01/californias-34th-congressional-district-election-gets-ugly-and-public-with-allegations-of-sexual-harassment/
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-will-bernie-sanders-endorse-his-former-1487700721-htmlstory.html
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Some roosters are just tough old birds, especially when overdone.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)This is why he is a trigger for women.
Because so many here have asked for the link.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)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)That is not how this works...someone elses actions has nothing to do with this story right now, today.
If you want to start a thread regarding that topic Ill 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)Hey what's a little kiss on the cheek and a shoulder rub??
Bow chick a bow wow
Kali
(55,014 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)But hey, it's just a kiss and a shoulder rub. No big deal
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)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 boyfriends love.
I mean minimizing that is Bow chick a bow wow.
Right?
George II
(67,782 posts)...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)Here's him working for a totally unrelated company:
But Strider isnt 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 doesnt 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: Theyre going to swing back. So why not prepare in advance?'
George II
(67,782 posts)lapucelle
(18,275 posts)The steps taken when the complaint were lodged against him in 2008 were the procedures outlined in his employment agreement.
delisen
(6,044 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:39 PM - Edit history (1)
Jose Garcia
(2,598 posts)He was fired by David Brock's organization.
videohead5
(2,178 posts)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)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 wouldnt want to be the person needing to move out.
I am a guy so I dont 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)So a supervisor giving unwanted kissing and touching is ok now???
Just making sure...trump will be glad to hear that...
videohead5
(2,178 posts)I did not say it was right.she was moved to another office.
angrychair
(8,702 posts)You said:
How should a person take that?
What is the line on when its 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)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)Im a union shop steward and have been a supervisor for many years:
Sexual harassment in the workplace is SEXUAL HARASSMENT, it doesnt 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 didnt the supervisor?
videohead5
(2,178 posts)And he's an SOB!
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)
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azureblue
(2,146 posts)--attempts at distractions... This one is exceptionally weak. Gawd, the GOP is desperately grasping at anything to deflect and distract.
Shemp Howard
(889 posts)The article states that Hillary did not fire the staffer: "Mrs. Clintons 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)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)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)why should she have to change jobs because some sick asshole can't keep his hands to himself?
dsc
(52,162 posts)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)... 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)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.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)NY Times.
Figures.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)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 Partys 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 Rubios 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)Just call it fake news and I get your point.
still_one
(92,219 posts)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)When they don't have actual facts against her, they talk about the "clouds" and "shadows" that surround herthat 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)Hardly ancient history.
Demit
(11,238 posts)"he was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clintons 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)
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Demit
(11,238 posts)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. Clintons 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. Clintons 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, andnot to beat up on youyour confusion about the details is evidence of that.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)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)And didnt seek a response from HRC?
Another rabbit hole.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)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)How is that acceptable from an HR perspective?
More waste of time news to distract from real issues.
sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)And I wouldnt be surprised if the press gives this a lot more ink than Stormy Daniels. Would you, after last year?
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Mr. Strider, who was Mrs. Clintons 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. Clintons 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)This is ridiculous.
Shemp Howard
(889 posts)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.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)That's what I was referring to.
Demit
(11,238 posts)"Strider, who was Mrs. Clintons 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. Clintons 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)Who gave her the story?
Hmm?
Another Haberman sensational RW hit piece.
No one but Repubs defend her.
Response to Demit (Reply #148)
Hassin Bin Sober This message was self-deleted by its author.
Demit
(11,238 posts)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 impressionthat many people got, not just youthat 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.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Demit
(11,238 posts)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)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.
Grins
(7,218 posts)Who comes up with jobs and titles like this?
kydo
(2,679 posts)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)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.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Loubee
(165 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)MFM008
(19,816 posts)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)NOT ONLY THAT YOU ARE ATTACKING THE PRESS and saying fake news because you dont 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 its 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, whats the big deal
YOU. ARE. WRONG.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)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)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 its 100% fact but this story is pretty detailed and sourced. Its 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 persons behavior by saying he was just giving his female subordinate unwanted touching and kissing, so what and saying fake news is a thing now...
videohead5
(2,178 posts)Hillary did not hire him back in 2016.David Brock hired him in 2016.
angrychair
(8,702 posts)I think its a fair assumption that she would have a say in who her religious advisor is, wouldnt you?
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)I don't give a fuck WHO it is!!
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)"I don't give a fuck WHO it is!!"
Demit
(11,238 posts)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)This is from the article, in the OP:
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)I am not arguing that anything he did was right or ok.
angrychair
(8,702 posts)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? Ill tell you what it says shut the fuck up and take it or youll get reassigned too
lapucelle
(18,275 posts)"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)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...
lapucelle
(18,275 posts)angrychair
(8,702 posts)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 dont 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)"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)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 wasnt removed for doing it the first time, is immune from termination.
lapucelle
(18,275 posts)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)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)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)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)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)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 wasnt a big deal and hair splitting or equivocating things that dont 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)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)Dont 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 Clintons 2016 campaign, Correct The Record:
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 wasnt a big deal and hair splitting or equivocating things that dont 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)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)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)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)But I strongly suggest you read through this thread again...there are several just touching or fake newsish 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)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)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.
PDittie
(8,322 posts)jmbar2
(4,890 posts)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)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)That's the most disgusting part of this story.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)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)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)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)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)The wording in Rape Fantasies makes me want to vomit.
romana
(765 posts)We blame the guy who did the actual harassing?
He's an SOB!
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Stop it.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)... 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)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)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)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.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Lokilooney
(322 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)And paying bribes established as pretty much how it works?
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)... 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)Missing from the stories about Trump and Wynn and countless other republicans. If you dont get how glaring the difference is- and how it enabled actual rapes to continue - I dont know what to say to you. The GOP is going to blame women for all of the shit men did- and obvs youll help them, when it suits you.
delisen
(6,044 posts)There is nothing in the "news" article to support what you have written.
Yavin4
(35,442 posts)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)object of hate for decades, especially for the New York Times. They will hound her until the day she dies.
delisen
(6,044 posts)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)...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.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)fucking idiot.
dlk
(11,569 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:23 PM - Edit history (1)
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? Thats 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, its obvious you do not.
delisen
(6,044 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)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.
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)They can never let it go ....
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Why is not everyone outraged by this?
Why are some here excusing this abusive behavior?
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)As noted above, it's just a kiss and a shoulder rub
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)So they did NOTHING. Kinda standard, and sad.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)And I suspect many here know that and have an axe to grind. Its 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.
Cha
(297,323 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)To discredit women. Right wingers do this shit all the time, so do Hillary haters.
mcar
(42,334 posts)Then are most men.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Which should be indeed not be minimized.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-sanders-campaign-sexual-harassment_us_5a0dfdf2e4b045cf43705417
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)environment. Quote from article, "Salsburys account isnt 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.
Cha
(297,323 posts)That sounds worse.
Garr
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)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)even know about Jordon Salsbury and what she had to say.
"Feigned" is right.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)important like NAZIS taking over our government?
lapucelle
(18,275 posts)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)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)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.
I
orangecrush
(19,572 posts)Rethugs smell of fear and desperation.
betsuni
(25,538 posts)Like, maybe she tripped in the sauna once.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)yardwork
(61,650 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Fuck Maggie Haberman and her partner Glenn Thrush.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Illuminating.
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)Shes 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, lets go ahead and skewer her anyway, right???!!! (Sarcasm, of course.)
rurallib
(62,423 posts)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.
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Historic NY
(37,451 posts)kacekwl
(7,017 posts)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)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)but slams HRC for suspending the guy for 5 weeks in 2008!
Link to tweet
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)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.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Et tu, New York Times?
Cha
(297,323 posts)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 Wont Cover White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/business/media/glenn-thrush-suspension-white-house.html
like dogs to vomit. Somethings never change I guess though you'd think they would.
p.s. aloha Cha!
samnsara
(17,622 posts)...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)Re-frame it. If he started stealing opiates, still beyond the realm of possibility to replace him?
I doubt it.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Looks pretty damning.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)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.