Last February, during
President Trump’s address to the Joint Session of Congress, 66 female Democrats
wore white as a sign of unity to honor women’s suffrage and women’s rights. These
women have something else up their sleeve for the President’s first State of
the Union Address on January 30.
Rep. Jackie Speier
(D-CA) and the Democratic Women’s Working Group are planning to follow in the
footsteps of the perfumed charlatans of the Time’s Up Movement at last Sunday’s
Golden Globes. All men and women from
both parties have been “invited to join the symbolic protest.” Speier said, “This is a culture change that
is sweeping the country and Congress is embracing it.”
Sexual predation has
been prevalent on Capitol Hill for decades; essentially going back to the days
when Sen. Strom Thurmond walked the halls of Congress. Thurmond, a Democrat, was elected to office
in 1956. From 1964 until 2003 he was a
Republican.
Since 1995 a SHUSH fund
has been used to silence accusers of sexual harassment. The fund was a secret account maintained by
the Office of Compliance; and its taxpayer funded.
According to The Washington Post, 235 complainants
received compensation totaling $15.2 million between 1997 and 2014. That’s more than one settlement
per month for 17 years and nearly $1 million per year. We, the
taxpayers, have no idea on whose behalf we’ve been paying to settle these
sexual harassment claims. That’s wrong.
If Congress wants to
get serious about its apparent culture of abuse, it needs to address its
cover-up culture.
More
than 1,500 former congressional aides have signed an open letter to
Congress asking them to mandate sexual harassment training and reexamine how
the Office of Compliance handles harassment requests. Women legislators,
interns, and staffers who have formed a whisper network centering on a
word-of-mouth "creep list" of men who act inappropriately by wearing
black for the SOTU in an act of defiance and resistance to President Trump
solves nothing.
Knowing what these
hypocrites have planned for the nation’s seminal moment that night, I sincerely
hope the President invites Juanita Broddrick to join Melania in the First Lady’s
State of the Union Guest Box. They need
to be reminded how they covered up the bimbo eruptions of Bubba Clinton and
how one of their own, Hillary, stood silent.
— Daniel (@DdDaanniieeLlLl) January 8, 2018
I'd be happy to go and wear black to represent all the victims of Bill and Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/fQ8Oossl7B— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 11, 2018
