Andrea Ramsey, a Democratic candidate for Congress, will drop out of the race after the Kansas City Star asked her about accusations in a 2005 lawsuit that she sexually harassed and retaliated against a male subordinate who said he had rejected her advances.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the case told The Star that the man reached a settlement with LabOne, the company where Ramsey was executive vice president of human resources. Court documents show that the man, Gary Funkhouser, and LabOne agreed to dismiss the case permanently after mediation in 2006.
Ramsey, a 56-year-old retired business executive from Leawood, was one of the Democratic candidates vying to challenge Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder in 2018 in Kansas’ 3rd District.
She was running with the endorsement of Emily’s List, a liberal women’s group that has raised more than a half-million dollars to help female candidates who support abortion rights.
Ramsey will drop out on Friday, her campaign said.
It was really only a matter of time before a Democratic female candidate was taken out by the #MeToo movement as well.
And in some ways this is the very example of gender equality.
Of course women can sexually harass male co-workers, hell it's happened to me.
However they are typically not as crude, and certainly not as physically threatening while they do it.
But still it happens, and when it does we need to respond to it just like we would if it were a Republican male.
By the way I was first tipped to this story by a tweet from the Wasilla Wendigo, who has been largely silent about charges directed at Donald Trump and Roy Moore, but can't resist going on the attack when it's a Democrat in the crosshairs.
Yeah we Democrats were "brooding" so hard that most of us did not seem to even know about this story.Democrats are brooding over another one of their own who is being forced to drop out of a congressional race due... https://t.co/wtR7JuGxOM— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) December 15, 2017
It's still early enough for another Democrat to replace her and become viable.
ReplyDeleteOg course it's happened to you. Of course.
ReplyDeleteOf course you respond like an assshole. Of course.
DeleteI believe Gryphen. It happens all the time.
DeleteI once worked for a woman who raved about the work I did for her and gave me a raise and promised I would have steady work in her business until.......... I turned down her request to go on vacation to Hawaii with her. Then she started making life miserable for me at work and one day when I came in to work she made a point of telling me to look at the schedule. My hours had been cut in half.
I told her the bullshit wasn't necessary and that she wasn't worth working for and quit. Had a new job the next day.
She was very careful to make it appear that it wasn't about sex, but it most certainly was. She made sure there was no way I could prove it. I later talked with another guy who rented an apartment from her and she did the same thing to him only she made him so miserable, he moved out. She knew she couldn't fire me for no apparent reason or force him out of the apartment, so she began a campaign to make us miserable enough to do those things on our own.
Gee? I bet sheriff nano can find a lying trump loving republican woman that drugs. rapes and attempts extortion on an innocent professional man today. FOR MONEY!!! Yep. And in this case? Better look at all angles. The whiny man may have a history himself. Male abusers use reverse excuses. She made me do it. She attacked me that's why I have scratch marks. LIARS are LIARS.
ReplyDeleteInteresting choice of words. Maybe Sarah's "brood mare" Bristol is knocked up again?
ReplyDeletePerhaps she should brood over the fact that she's a nothing politically.
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ReplyDeleteHere is a textbook case of sexual harassment:
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Bwahahaha, what sane woman near 50 years old would dress like that with falsies for the entire public to see?
DeleteA Visitor from United States is still Palin trolling after all these years.
Delete"Women in the Alt Right are constantly harassed by low status anonymous trolls trying to put us in our place.
ReplyDelete"The article also highlighted how Lauren Southern tried to explain why it was cool for her to not be married with babies, even though she was a “traditionalist.” That she should be able to do what she wants without being attacked for it. Interesting!
Read more at https://wonkette.com/627099/the-week-in-garbage-men-alt-right-misogynists-call-women-who-agree-with-them-tradthots#rcKUAuhy8YPM2glv.99
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/christian-machine-turns-on-evangelical-leader-for-criticizing-trump-and-sends-flood-of-death-threats/
" “This year I became painfully aware of the machine, the Christian Machine. "According to the evangelist, she is refusing to back down and still delivers sermons pushing non-conservative views such as supporting gun control, Black Lives Matter and immigrant refugees."
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/17/is-jen-hatmaker-the-conscious-of-evangelical-christianity-216068
Hey, Gryph! Totally OT here, but here comes 2018 and the realization I've been a loyal follower for almost a decade.
ReplyDeleteFrom the time that old bat took the stage RNC, "oh FFS, there's so much wrong with this whole scenario, I need to do some research..." and found IM.
THANK YOU.
This Maw interrupter tOO>
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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-dorfman-reckoning-trump-election-20171217-story.html
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/a-reckless-con-man-as-president-la-times-burns-trump-to-the-ground-in-brutal-editorial/
"“We must vigorously protest the president’s craven actions, but above all we need to acknowledge that what ultimately matters is not what a foreign power did to America, but what America did to itself,”"
https://www.facebook.com/Governor.BillWalker/photos/pcb.1978800619075328/1978800512408672/?type=3&theater
ReplyDelete"Attorney General Lindemuth and I are asking the FCC to delay their planned vote on #NetNeutrality regulations. Recent news regarding the discovery of fake comment submissions causes us great concern, and we believe more time is needed for the integrity of this process to be restored." ALASKA
"How America’s militaristic, capitalist culture led to Trump
ReplyDeleteOur bully nation long preceded Trump; in fact, it created him and helps explain his rise to power"Bullying has been a means of controlling people by putting them in "their place” perhaps for as long as there have been humans."
" Capitalism is bullying; it is a competition with winners and losers. Militarism is also bullying: violence, aggression, and submission to authority. Militaristic capitalism combines two bullying principles, which multiplies their effect."
"The United States spends more on weapons than its ten 10 largest competitors combined."
"America makes heroes of bomber pilots like John McCain and offers them as role models for children and adolescents. They see the media applaud the bullying behavior of their own government, which dispatches police, soldiers, and FBI and CIA agents to foreign nations to kill and wreak havoc—from Afghanistan to Somalia to Colombia. If you kill enough, whether in a just war or not, you may WIN the
CONgressional Medal of Honor."
"The most vicious bully of all is the militaristic capitalist system itself, which requires bullying by people in power, regardless of their individual personalities."rump, both as a politician and long before he entered politics, called anyone who challenged him a loser. With that vocabulary, he perpetuates the idea that victims are weak and lazy and don't have the gumption to prevail. They deserve their fate and must submit to the triumphant. As a landlord, Trump brutally intimidated his tenants—cutting heat and hot water, refusing to maintain and repair his sometimes rat-infested buildings—in the hope of driving them out of rent-controlled apartments that he planned to convert into condominiums. When Trump hosted his reality show, “The Apprentice,” people cheered when he announced, "You're fired!”"
https://www.salon.com/2017/12/17/how-americas-militaristic-capitalist-culture-led-to-trump/
Coming from a MAN! WTF?
ReplyDelete"Doug Jones Says Congress Should ‘Move On’ From
Trump Sexual Misconduct Allegations"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doug-jones-donald-trump-resign-sexual_us_5a3688f4e4b01d429cc9b445?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Vixens? "Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources, legal analyst Tamara Holder said since she was pushed out at Fox for reporting sexual assault she has been unable to find another media job and that she is not alone among other women who were forced out at the network."
ReplyDelete"“He says there are cases that amounted to flirting,” she continued. “Let me be clear. I had a man pull out his penis in his office and shove my head on it. That was not flirting. — that was criminal. That was not sexual harassment. I’m not the only case, there are women who can’t speak out.”
“Either Mr. Murdoch is a liar or he’s delusional and old and needs to get out,” she stated. “If you’re an investor, you need to decide, do you want your money with a man who has continued to lie to you for the past 20 years, your money, hundreds of millions of dollars of your money has gone to women over and over and over again. and we’ve been told that we have to shut up.”"
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/watch-cnn-host-left-speechless-as-ex-fox-news-analyst-breaks-her-confidentiality-agreement-and-exposes-rupert-murdoch/
Of course it happens.
ReplyDeleteWives beat their husbands too. But the ratios are way off. The number of wives committing spousal abuse is dwarfed by the huge numbers of men that beat their wives.
Likewise there are a LOT more men harassing women then there are women harassing men.
BTW have you read the latest? Seems the Weinsteins blackballed Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd and cost them some prime roles in some blockbuster movies. That goes way beyond sexual harassment. I hope they both sue his ass for YUUUGE bucks. Harvey essentially shut down Sorvino's career.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/senate-majority-whip-john-cornyn-expects-gop-tax-bill-will-pass-on-tuesday/
ReplyDelete"The team initially said the investigation of the allegations facing the 81-year-old Richardson was being led by law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, LLP. Overseeing the probe originally was minority owner and former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, but the investigation now will be handled solely by the NFL. "
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