Gore Was Accused of Sexual Advances

A massage therapist accused former Vice President Al Gore of “unwanted sexual contact” at a hotel in October 2006, but no charges were filed because of lack of evidence, law officials said Wednesday.

A lawyer for the woman contacted the police in late 2006, said the Multnomah County district attorney, Michael D. Schrunk. Mr. Schrunk said the woman, who has not been identified, had refused to be interviewed and did not want the investigation to proceed.

But in January 2009, she contacted the police and gave a statement in which she said Mr. Gore had tried to have sex with her during an appointment at the Hotel Lucia. The National Enquirer first reported the accusations on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Gore, Kalee Kreider, said he had no comment. Mr. Gore and his wife announced on June 1 that they were separating.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/us/politics/24gore.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

:wow:

1) The Portland police declined to investigate the woman's claims any further after she made her statement, citing a lack of evidence.
2) The allegations were apparently known two years ago to at least one Portland media outlet -- the Portland Tribune, a weekly paper that declined to report on them. The paper's editor tells Ben Smith that the allegations didn't meet the "test points" that the paper uses to determine whether a story is likely to be true.
3) We have seen plenty of cases of baseless (if vivid) sexual allegations against celebrities before. Tucker Carlson was once accused of rape by a woman he'd never met, for instance. Something similar happened with magician David Copperfield last year, too. (Plenty of celebrities have been guilty of sex crimes, too, of course.)

http://www.salon.com/news/al_gore/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/06/23/al_gore_sex_assault_story

what does that even mean?

That would be weird, you got me there.

Does he have any formal training?

I agree, it's all about the hands.

The same might be true of hiring someone to come to your hotel room to give you a massage, I'm not sure.

anyone willing to ante up $540 for a "massage" in a hotel room at 11PM under an assumed name is probably looking for something more. Either this woman is a troublemaking liar or Al Gore is a risk-taking fool.

back in 1997, by a psycho nutball cat rescue person with an agenda I made the mistake of interfering with, lol. No charges were filed because of lack of evidence. And it's appropriate, because everything she claimed was pure fabrication (except the part where I verbally harangued her up one side and down the other for practicing veterinary medicine without a license, which she was).

Anybody can claim anything. Doesn't mean a damned thing.

Please let me know...important

PC

I have a parallel case here...

PM me if you're interested, if not, I understand...

organizations backing her who backed Paula, gave her a nose job, and other bribe deals and money. Has any body investigated this?

Just like those that sued MJ.


:eyes:

All he did was trying to be a gentleman and open a door for a female..she later claimed that he positioned his body too close to her when he opened the door for her, forcing her to brush her body against his...WTF?

Al Gore would never make advances on any woman other than his wife.
What's even worse is that "this woman" contacted the police 3 whole years after the supposed incident.

Yeah, right.
Everybody waits 3 whole years before reporting unwanted advances.
Especially a massage therapist!!

Where did they get this shit? From watching old Seinfeld reruns?

charges.

That makes no sense.

A million to one she's a rethug. just sayin'

Rumor has it that a private citizen asked a $540 massage therapist for sex. Does that pretty well summarize the situation?

I. Don't. Care.

How could they see a $500 massage bill of Gore's if he gave a fake name like the article says?