Alumnae of Kavanaugh accuser's high school express support for her

[babylonsister]

Alumnae of Kavanaugh accuser’s high school express support for her
By Justin Wise - 09/17/18 11:19 AM EDT


Alumnae of Christine Blasey Ford’s high school are circulating a letter to show their support for her, after Ford came forward with sexual misconduct accusations against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

“We believe Dr. Blasey Ford and are grateful that she came forward to tell her story,” a draft letter from alumnae of Holton-Arms, a private girls school in Bethesda, Md., reads, as first reported by HuffPost.

“It demands a thorough and independent investigation before the Senate can reasonably vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to a lifetime seat on the nation’s highest court.”

The letter, which says it’s from more than 200 alumnae from classes 1967 through 2018, added that Ford’s allegations about Kavanaugh are “all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton.”

“Many of us are survivors ourselves,” it said.

HuffPost reported that the letter had received three dozen additional signatures as of Monday morning.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/406993-alumnae-of-kavanaugh-accusers-high-school-send-letter-defending-her

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Oh, boy!

Are you listening, US Senate?

[Guilded Lilly]

2. OK! Numbers :) Names. History.

[busterbrown]

12. Ain't gonna be easy..

Christine has already received death threats

[watoos]

17. So did the woman

who accused Trump of raping her when she was a minor. She eventually withdrew her law suit because of the death threats.

[BootinUp]

3. I think I heard a boom.

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

This is great, but what would be even better would be if women started coming out w/ stories about Kavanaugh specifically.

[malaise]

6. My guess is that's why he's lawyering up

It's never just one with these self-righteous scumbags.

[lagomorph777]

25. Yup. Sounds from the text as if some of those alumnae have very specific stories to tell.

[triron]

7. I'm thinking the same.

[NastyRiffraff]

14. There are probably more, from H.S. & college

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He belonged to a secret society that was nicknamed "Tits and clits" at Yale. Not hard to imagine what that was about.

Sometimes these creeps change in the years after college, but while in school they think they have a god-given right to women's bodies.

[watoos]

21. Are you sure about the word "clips?"

I can think of a nasty word that sounds like clips that would make more sense to me.

[lagomorph777]

26. Yeah, probably the real name was NSFW

[NastyRiffraff]

30. You're right, and I'll correct it. n/t

[Faux pas]

5. Kickin' for the truth!

[ooky]

8. It would be extra helpful to hone in on

support from the students from the specific years who were there when Kavenaugh was there, hopefully who could speak to his reputation at the time. If not more than to just say, "yeah, we knew him, and we could see this happening". Better yet, someone else he attacked in that same time period, which would likely be the final nail in his coffin.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

9. K&R

If there are any more out there I hope they have the courage to come forward. It would seem like they are referring to other stories. From personal experience I know that part is hard especially with all the right wing crazies out there. I never had to deal with that. Either way, I think there may not even be a hearing and the nomination will be withdrawn if this picks up.

[elleng]

10. P.S. Holton Arms is a heckva school!

and it's 6.3 miles from Georgetown Prep.

[erronis]

16. Yup - and both of those schools have a lot of alumni serving way high up in gov't and corp.

It takes mega-$$s or great connections to get into these schools. Me and my kids all had to do with public schools in Montgomery and Fairfax counties (no sobs, tho.)

[elleng]

18. Yes, does take $$$,

connections maybe/maybe not.

[NewJeffCT]

22. just checked

Tuition is $43,000/year at Holton Arms. School has around 650 students and about 100 teachers. So, 6.5 to 1 student teacher ratio.

Tuition is actually a bit cheaper than some of the elite prep/boarding schools in New England, believe it or not.

Choate in Wallingford, CT is $59,000 for boarding students (Several Kennedys went there, including JFK, as did the actor Michael Douglas and Ivanka Trump and many others I'm sure I'm forgetting.)

[Brother Buzz]

11. #MeToo redux, Baby!

[mcar]

13. K&R!

[jayschool2013]

15. Huff Post did the reporting, so

please think about giving them a click instead of the agrregator.

[geardaddy]

19. I don't know why I bother to read comments on stories like this...

(at the article source)

There are so many douche bags calling this brave woman all sorts of nasty names.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Yes, contemporary evidence

will be very helpful because there was no way of knowing where he would go in life. Such evidence would corroborate her experience and show she's not just making it up.

Donald Trump may have to say he doesn't want a Supreme Court Justice who grabs 'em by the p___y.

[FBaggins]

23. This doesn't appear to be contemporary evidence

The letter doesn't say "we heard of this Brett kid at the time and knew he was bad news". These are alumnae from around the time he learned to walk until this year who are essentially saying "attempted rape definitely happens and happened to some of us".

I'm not sure where that gets us.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. There were other people at the party and

what did she tell anyone else at the time, and perhaps a counselor over the years, and would any of them provide corroboration of her account

[FBaggins]

29. Those questions are already answered

There were four guys at the party. Two have been named and she doesn't remember the other two. She didn't tell anyone at all until 30 years later when she told a marriage counselor and her husband. The counselor has notes that mostly corroborate that her story hasn't changed in the last six years... but doesn't get us any closer to finding one of the two remaining men at the party.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. 1000 Yale law graduates go on record saying Kavanaugh is scumbag

Brett Kavanaugh’s fellow alumni at Yale Law School call him ‘morally bankrupt’ in scathing open letter

https://other98.com/brett-kavanaughs-fellow-alumni-at-yale-law-school-are-calling-him-morally-bankrupt-in-a-scathing-letter/

More reason for GOP to love him.

[MaryMagdaline]

28. Good for them for doing this

They know they will come under fire, but they are there to support their classmate, who obviously, had a good reputation.

[George Eliot]

31. If Kavanaugh doesn't withdraw, then we know Republicans have firm hold on power and we must -

absolutely find a way to take power back. To me, this is a test to see how far they can go.