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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 10:45 AM Nov 2017

Rep: 50 women reached out in one day after sharing sexual harassment story

Source: The Hill




BY MAX GREENWOOD - 11/21/17 09:35 AM EST

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said Tuesday that in the day after she shared the accounts of her experiences with sexual harassment, 50 other other women reached out to her in response.

"By Saturday, 50 women had reached out to me or called me," Dingell said on CNN's "New Day." "A 21-year-old woman hugged me at an event Friday night and said 'I'm that waitress you spoke for.'"

Dingell recalled her experiences with sexual harassment on "New Day" on Friday, recounting how she had been groped by a "prominent historical person" in the 1980s.

Her account came as a growing number of prominent men in politics, business, media and beyond face allegations of sexual misconduct. Some lawmakers, including Dingell, have called on Congress to crackdown on such behavior.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/361327-rep-50-women-reached-out-in-one-day-after-sharing-sexual-harassment-story

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Rep: 50 women reached out in one day after sharing sexual harassment story (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP
Hopefully more women will be given the courage to come forward... nycbos Nov 2017 #1
We need tRump's victims to speak out! Kleveland Nov 2017 #2

nycbos

(6,033 posts)
1. Hopefully more women will be given the courage to come forward...
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 10:54 AM
Nov 2017

... hearing from a member of congress about her own experience.


I posted a few days back that if a member of Congress is scared to speak out someone who is in a position of power I more than understand why victims don't come forward until years later.

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
2. We need tRump's victims to speak out!
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 11:56 AM
Nov 2017

Screw whatever contract or settlement they made with his slimy lawyers.

Protecting our country from this flagrant madman is worth so much more than any hush-money.

Perhaps if one of these wealthy anti-tRump persons would offere legal help , and compensation something could happen.

What can I say, I like writing fiction.....

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