[Someone made Flake an offer he couldn’t refuse!]
No need. The guy’s about to be unemployed, he has very few assets to his name, and he’s got a family to feed. He needs to stay in the good books of future employers, and a good chunk of them will be the Boards of Directors of major corporations. At the same time, if she doesn’t testify, he’ll have an excuse to vote for Kavanaugh. The #metoo plague has become so virulent, even expressing the wrong opinion can be a job-killer, especially for a Senator whose vote is a matter of public record. Many Freepers hold jobs that would be in jeopardy if their identities were made public along with their views on this board. Free speech is a dead letter. Thanks to Google, running afoul of the prevailing PC standards on a public forum can mean being blackballed for the rest of your working career.