Posted on 04/03/2018 1:30:11 PM PDT by John Semmens
Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn) apologized for failing to protect female staff members from harassment by her former chief of staff Tony Baker and blamed “lack of proper training” for the abuses, which included allegations of “punching” and “death threats.”
“Much to my dismay, I discovered that punching and threatening staff members is not explicitly addressed in any legislation,” Esty said. “I will attempt to correct this, but can’t promise anything since Republicans control both houses of congress.
Meanwhile, of my own accord I will be requiring all my employees to complete training in harassment. Hopefully, this will move punching and threatening out of its current ‘gray area’ status and substantially reduce its frequency in my office. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to be as aggressive as I am in combating this problem.”
An unmentioned element of Esty’s “aggressive” handling of the problem was to recommend Baker for a job at Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit organization that was started after the deadly 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Esty’s current chief of staff Timothy Daly explained that “the job recommendation and nondisclosure agreement were aimed at getting Baker out as quickly as possible with a minimum of negative publicity. If the Congresswoman had merely fired him who knows what kind of impact that would’ve had on her credibility and reelection chances.”
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Nicely done, sir.
Stop with the fake news! You are wasting bandwidth
Much to my dismay this woman is a progressive A$$. I can’t believe that someone with such a lack of character and intelligence can be elected to office. But this is the good old USA in 2018. Anything can happen.
Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn)
“But this is the good old USA in 2018. Anything can happen”.....when you’re a demodummie.
You are correct. But unfortunately their actions effect all of us.
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