{"id":12589,"date":"2014-04-19T00:26:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T07:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2014-04-19T00:26:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T07:26:29","slug":"how-mcconnell-stood-up-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/19\/how-mcconnell-stood-up-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"How McConnell Stood Up for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few campers are more unhappy these days than Mitch McConnell (R-KY), because he\u2019s trailing in the polls to both his Bagger primary challenger and the next Senator from Kentucky, Alison Grimes (D).  In an attempt to save his job, he now claims he stood up for women in the investigation of Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR), when Packwood became Senator Pokewood.  The problem is that McConnell is engaging in Republicans\u2019 2nd favorite pastime, behind stealing elections.  Bought Bitch Mitch is lying.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0419BBM\"Facing his toughest reelection battle in years against a well-known and well-financed female opponent, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently boasted that he led the Senate in ousting a GOP colleague accused of sexual harassment in 1995. But news reports from that time show that late in the investigation, McConnell tried to stall the probe against his fellow Republican, Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.). He derided efforts by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to hold public hearings on Packwood as "frolic and detour"\u2014after the Senate ethics committee had substantiated nearly two-dozen claims of sexual harassment leveled against Packwood by female lobbyists and former staffers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talking about the Packwood scandal this past week, McConnell noted that he was chair of the Senate ethics committee when Packwood resigned. In a Tuesday interview<\/a> with the Lexington Herald-Leader, McConnell said he had taken "the toughest possible position." The newspaper reported that McConnell had "offered himself as an example of how elected officials should handle situations when a member of their own party is accused of sexual harassment."<\/p>\n

But the bulk of the ethics probe against Packwood took place when the committee was chaired by a Democrat. When Republicans regained a majority in the Senate after the 1994 elections and McConnell became chair of the committee, he transformed the Packwood investigation into a partisan mess\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Mother Jones<\/a>><\/p>\n

Click through for more.<\/font><\/p>\n

As an interesting side note, Packwood was actually quite progressive in his day, aside from the scandal that he brought on himself.  He was the very last Republican for whom I actually voted.<\/font><\/p>\n

In any case, Bought Bitch Mitch may well lose his job.  For some strange reason, nobody seems to be crying.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few campers are more unhappy these days than Mitch McConnell (R-KY), because he\u2019s trailing in the polls to both his Bagger primary challenger and the next Senator from Kentucky, Alison Grimes (D).  In an attempt to save his job, he now claims he stood up for women in the investigation of Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR), […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}