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Liberal think tank run by Clinton ally Tanden hit for response to sexual harassment
http://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | 4/24/18 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 04/25/2018 5:15:00 PM PDT by BBell

A top liberal think tank led by a Hillary Clinton ally has reportedly faced multiple internal allegations of sexual harassment, amid claims from former and current employees that top brass at the organization haven’t done enough to address it.

BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday that the Center for American Progress, led by ex-Clinton adviser Neera Tanden and founded by former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, has a history of sexual harassment claims. BuzzFeed obtained documents from 2016 that reportedly suggested a “chaotic” internal culture and pointed to “several incidents of sexual harassment against several members.”

One document was an exit memo from a junior staffer who had reportedly just quit after allegedly facing sexually harassment by a manager, Benton Strong. The exit memo, sent to top leadership of the organization and obtained by BuzzFeed, stated that “on several occasions, myself and others on the team felt as if reporting [sexual harassment] had been a mistake and that the retaliation, worsening of already tenuous team dynamics, and treatment by supervisors outweighed the seemingly positive act of reporting sexual harassment in the workplace.”

Two women reportedly filed complaints against Strong in 2016. Strong allegedly asked several women on his team if they had been flashed or masturbated in front of, and allegedly sent sexually explicit text messages to another.

In the junior staffer’s exit memo, she also described receiving “lewd and inappropriate text messages” from Strong, which made her feel “uncomfortable” in the workplace.

A separate July 2016 memo reportedly written by CAP’s employee union, but never delivered to Tanden, detailed the organization’s failures in regard to sexual harassment policy. The union suggested that while CAP “eventually took appropriate course of action,” management “failed to adequately address the situation.”

One former union member reportedly also said that Tanden did not agree to their proposals

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: c4ap; cap; clinton; liberal; podesta; sexualharassment; tanden; thinktank

1 posted on 04/25/2018 5:15:00 PM PDT by BBell
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2 posted on 04/25/2018 5:17:05 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

John Pederasta, Founder. All I need to know.


3 posted on 04/25/2018 5:25:25 PM PDT by ichabod1 (If there is to be war, let it begin here.)
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How out-of-touch must a guy be to act like that Benton Strong?! I don’t know ANY guy that would act so crudely! And then to actually think that it is okay?! That guy is not only a pervert, he is totally stupid. And I bet that he thinks that women dig him! What a maroon! And the ultra-liberal Center for American Progress just let him continue to harass women. Wow! Their ethics are as bad as Hillary’s.


4 posted on 04/25/2018 5:26:45 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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How can that be? The name Clinton and sexual harassment are not things that the MSM say belong together.


5 posted on 04/25/2018 5:32:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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How out-of-touch must a guy be to act like that Benton Strong?!

No more out-of-touch than that stupid liberal moron Caren Z. Turner, who tried to play "do you know who I am" with two New Jersey cops, in front of their dash cams and body cams.

6 posted on 04/25/2018 5:35:49 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: BBell
FOX_News_Report_October_27_2016
7 posted on 04/25/2018 5:58:23 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: Steely Tom
No more out-of-touch than that stupid liberal moron Caren Z. Turner, who tried to play "do you know who I am"

I hear the two cops now know exactly who she is.

Noooobody.

She "resigned" HAHAHA!

http://abc7chicago.com/traffic/video-port-authority-official-rages-at-police/3390373/

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8 posted on 04/25/2018 5:58:50 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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You should have expected it .... you worked in a Progressive Sh!thole with scum sucking dogs sh!tting over your fellow Americans ... you expected nice?


9 posted on 04/25/2018 6:57:37 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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