Lots of very ugly things are surfacing about a lot of people... If even half are true it highlights the depravity of the world we live in.
Sexual predators...
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Queen Titania
Senator
It shows that nothing much changes.
We castigate Muslim men for keeping their women in captivity while our men are treating women almost as bad....................and our "free" women don't speak up. Why not? Because the men will shut them down quickly. Many women right now are jumping on the "me too" band wagon and many others are being paid to nail a man...............but many women actually have been molested and they didn't speak out. Looks like in our society women have been in captivity too.
Slavery was "Business as usual" but it fell by the wayside as should this predatory sexual behavior. The excuse that's just the way it is just isn't good enough.
3 legislators/officials in Ohio, 2 GOP, 1 Dem, have resigned in the last few weeks...
Ohio state Rep. Wes Goodman, a conservative Republican, resigned late Tuesday after being confronted with evidence of inappropriate behavior with another man in his Columbus office.
House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger said he met with Goodman, 33, Tuesday and confronted him about the allegations of "inappropriate behavior related to his state office." The freshman representative, who is married, confirmed the allegations and resigned his position.
"It became clear that his resignation was the most appropriate course of action for him, his family, the constituents of the 87th House District and this institution," Rosenberger said in a statement Wednesday. "I met with him later in the day where he acknowledged and confirmed the allegations. It became clear that his resignation was the most appropriate course of action for him, his family, the constituents of the 87th House District and this institution."
Brad Miller, a spokesman for Rosenberger, said the interaction happened several months ago and was consensual. Miller noted that it did not constitute sexual harassment and there had been no harassment complaints made against Goodman during his time in the House. He said the incident did not involve Statehouse staffers or other members of the legislature. The behavior was "activity unbecoming of a state representative," Miller said.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that "rumors about Goodman’s questionable conduct, including his use of social media, have been swirling at the Statehouse in the past few weeks and include stories dating back years to when he worked in Washington. His Facebook account was taken offline."
“We all bring our own struggles and our own trials into public life. That has been true for me, and I sincerely regret that my actions and choices have kept me from serving my constituents and our state in a way that reflects the best ideals of public service,” Goodman said in a statement. “For those whom I have let down, I’m sorry. As I move onto the next chapter of my life, I sincerely ask for privacy for myself, my family, and my friends.” In a brief resignation letter, Goodman said that it has been "the greatest honor of my life to serve the constituents of the 87th House District.”
Prior to his election to the state legislature, Goodman spent six years working for Congressman Jim Jordan, where he developed "pro-family and pro-liberty" policies. He also served as a managing director for the Conservative Action Project, where he says he "led the fight for conservative principles, like a balanced budget, lower taxes, repealing Obamacare, life, and religious liberty."
Jordan enthusiastically endorsed Goodman in 2016, declaring that he had “the character, experience and passion to serve the families and taxpayers of our part of Ohio in the Statehouse.”
Spokeswoman Melika Willoughby said Jordan had heard “no allegations of wrongdoing and received no accusations of misconduct” during the time Goodman worked for him.
“Congressman Jordan is deeply disappointed by this troubling news, and believes Mr. Goodman’s resignation was the best course of action,” Willoughby said.
Goodman is the second state lawmaker to resign in recent months over inappropriate behavior. Sen. Cliff Hite, a Republican, resigned after a state employee alleged he propositioned her for sex several times.
Michael Premo, the Ohio Senate Democrats' chief of staff, also abruptly left his post earlier this week.
"Recently, concerns of inappropriate conduct toward staff came to my attention and I found the information to be credible," said Senate Minority Leader Kenny Yuko. "Therefore, at my request, Mike Premo today submitted his resignation as minority chief of staff."...
https://pjmedia.com/trending/ohio-state-rep-resigns-inappropriate-behavior-man-office/
Ohio state Rep. Wes Goodman, a conservative Republican, resigned late Tuesday after being confronted with evidence of inappropriate behavior with another man in his Columbus office.
House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger said he met with Goodman, 33, Tuesday and confronted him about the allegations of "inappropriate behavior related to his state office." The freshman representative, who is married, confirmed the allegations and resigned his position.
"It became clear that his resignation was the most appropriate course of action for him, his family, the constituents of the 87th House District and this institution," Rosenberger said in a statement Wednesday. "I met with him later in the day where he acknowledged and confirmed the allegations. It became clear that his resignation was the most appropriate course of action for him, his family, the constituents of the 87th House District and this institution."
Brad Miller, a spokesman for Rosenberger, said the interaction happened several months ago and was consensual. Miller noted that it did not constitute sexual harassment and there had been no harassment complaints made against Goodman during his time in the House. He said the incident did not involve Statehouse staffers or other members of the legislature. The behavior was "activity unbecoming of a state representative," Miller said.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that "rumors about Goodman’s questionable conduct, including his use of social media, have been swirling at the Statehouse in the past few weeks and include stories dating back years to when he worked in Washington. His Facebook account was taken offline."
“We all bring our own struggles and our own trials into public life. That has been true for me, and I sincerely regret that my actions and choices have kept me from serving my constituents and our state in a way that reflects the best ideals of public service,” Goodman said in a statement. “For those whom I have let down, I’m sorry. As I move onto the next chapter of my life, I sincerely ask for privacy for myself, my family, and my friends.” In a brief resignation letter, Goodman said that it has been "the greatest honor of my life to serve the constituents of the 87th House District.”
Prior to his election to the state legislature, Goodman spent six years working for Congressman Jim Jordan, where he developed "pro-family and pro-liberty" policies. He also served as a managing director for the Conservative Action Project, where he says he "led the fight for conservative principles, like a balanced budget, lower taxes, repealing Obamacare, life, and religious liberty."
Jordan enthusiastically endorsed Goodman in 2016, declaring that he had “the character, experience and passion to serve the families and taxpayers of our part of Ohio in the Statehouse.”
Spokeswoman Melika Willoughby said Jordan had heard “no allegations of wrongdoing and received no accusations of misconduct” during the time Goodman worked for him.
“Congressman Jordan is deeply disappointed by this troubling news, and believes Mr. Goodman’s resignation was the best course of action,” Willoughby said.
Goodman is the second state lawmaker to resign in recent months over inappropriate behavior. Sen. Cliff Hite, a Republican, resigned after a state employee alleged he propositioned her for sex several times.
Michael Premo, the Ohio Senate Democrats' chief of staff, also abruptly left his post earlier this week.
"Recently, concerns of inappropriate conduct toward staff came to my attention and I found the information to be credible," said Senate Minority Leader Kenny Yuko. "Therefore, at my request, Mike Premo today submitted his resignation as minority chief of staff."...
https://pjmedia.com/trending/ohio-state-rep-resigns-inappropriate-behavior-man-office/
Congress has paid 17 million dollars to victims...but not all were sexual. As they are loathe to discuss these settlements, the exact considerations are unknown.
On Thursday, the Office of Compliance released additional information indicating that it has paid victims more than $17 million since its creation in the 1990s. That includes all settlements, not just related to sexual harassment, but also discrimination and other cases.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html
btw, Donald Trump is a sexual predator...
On Thursday, the Office of Compliance released additional information indicating that it has paid victims more than $17 million since its creation in the 1990s. That includes all settlements, not just related to sexual harassment, but also discrimination and other cases.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html
btw, Donald Trump is a sexual predator...
as seen on tv
Senator
I doubt if 2017 is more depraved than any prior era. when I open a book or turn on my TV I learn about:
- human sacrifices and slavery in ancient rome
- the inquisition
- muslim enslavement of conquered people for the past 900 years
- American slavery
- rape and other war crimes in every conflict
- Nazi death camps
- Siberian gulags
- Chinese re-education camps during mao's era
Arkady
President
It's depressing, but think of it like turning over a rock. It's not like the slimy things you find there just appeared. They were there all along -- they just were out of sight. Given the way that serious crime has plummeted in most western nations in the last quarter century, I think it's fair to assume that as ugly as things look today, they were a lot uglier in the past, underneath all those unflipped rocks. Remember, as recently as the early 1990s, the violent crime rate was twice what it is today, and the murder rate was nearly twice as high. It's unrealistic to think that a society that was that much more violent than today's (and also over twice as prone to property crime) wasn't also behaving a lot worse when it came to such unreported misbehavior.
So, even though it doesn't feel like it, we're probably on the right path here. Things are getting better, but, ironically, that could contribute to more stories of misbehavior coming out, since the standards keep improving, which keep making past misbehavior look worse and worse with the benefit of a more enlightened outlook. A behavior that may have merely seemed a bit off-color in an earlier era (pantomiming feeling up a coworker in a photo), can look like a very serious transgression viewed from a more enlightened era. If we were heading in the wrong direction, by comparison, few past offenses would surface, since the behavior of the past would seem tame by modern standards.
Arkady
President
Agreed. It's probably the opposite. People from most prior eras would feel like they'd died and gone to heaven if they fell asleep and woke up in 2017. Sure, as a woman, you might get groped. But at what period in history would you not have faced much worse? In the 50s and 60s, casual sexism was commonplace and women were just expected to deal with it. In the 19th century, a sizable portion of women in this country lived in slavery and could be legally used by their "owners" any way they wanted, and most other women were in vastly unequal marriages where the concept of "marital rape" wasn't even a thing, since you were expected to go along with whatever your husband demanded. Before that, women didn't even get a say in who they married.
