Ahh, okay. So because the throuple was before she entered Congress there's no workplace ethics violation there but she might've had one with this other person while in Congress
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Dem. Rep Katie Hill resigns amid allegations of affair with staffer. Rep flipped red seat in 2018 midterms
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She resigned because she did nothing unethical but the leaked photos were too much for her so she did it so coverage on her ends and her constituent can move on . She did have an affair but not with a congressional staffer so she could have stayed but the revenge porn was too much for her and wanted to deal with it outside of public eye
I really hope your SO doesn't know your Era profile because they're about to investigate every person at your work.
I hope she can do what the UK didn't and send the fucking daily mail to jail. I hope she fucking ruins the Daily Mail and Red State.
This is a really disappointing outcome, and I hope it doesn't breed precedent. Campaigned for her and she seemed like a sincere, decent person.
This is a really disappointing outcome, and I hope it doesn't breed precedent. Campaigned for her and she seemed like a sincere, decent person.
Damn I've been found out asking a stupid question on Era!
Where is the evidence for this? Are you reposting this without any actual evidence to back it up?
Feel sorry for her, had to deal with some revenge porn which almost got me in real trouble at work. If she really resigned because she wanted to stop then I'm confused. Isn't revenge porn illegal, couldn't she have got him in trouble with the law or something.
Why has no one here mentioned yet that the leaked photos show that she has an Iron Cross tattoo? Seems like that's a pretty big deal in its own right and maybe all the people saying how unfair this was should reckon with that?
The Nazi iron cross or the one still in use by the German military today?
Most disgusting thing ever? Yeah ok chief. It's not exactly great but I can think of a couple worse things.
Having said that I am interested in getting the full story here as it seems to be all over the place as to what happened when and with who.
It's the Independent Skateboard logo. Grew up in the district and tons of CA-25 ppl have that tattoo.
Huh it just looked like an iron cross to me. Good to know though thanks for correcting.
There's no evidence of this except a story in the Daily Mail?
Oh so that's what it was. Yeah it was hard to make it out, due to how blurry it was and I was just flat out blocking people that kept spamming it.
It's part of the brand of the democratic party. The more cynical, but honest answer is that offering the illusion of choice is part of the gotv (get out the vote) strategy. Want to depress voter turnout? Have them believe that there is hardly any difference between the two parties when it comes to corruption.
Yup. If she was a man she'd still be in office. This district is probably going back to Republicans next year.
Do we have any male congressman resign due to affair with staffers?
Vice did a 4 episodes documentary on her campaign last year, she was a rising star in Democrat and filliped a red district. What a shame.
https://youtu.be/B2MeTpDByEw?t=1370
Vice did a 4 episodes documentary on her campaign last year, she was a rising star in Democrat and filliped a red district. What a shame.
https://youtu.be/B2MeTpDByEw?t=1370
Pretty much a special election will have to take place in order to occupy the seat for the rest of Hill's term. When that will happen, we'll just have to wait and see.
Keep in mind, she was the first Democratic rep elected in district CA-25 in 26 years. That district in particular mostly leaned towards right but in recent years has since leaned more towards the left.
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Every situation is different, but resignations (and pledges to not seek re-election) happen ALL THE TIME in the house due to sexual impropriety.
Here's the list from just 2017-18
Lmao
It takes a special level of nonsense to twist getting harassed out of Congress as #femaleprivilege
"cynical" isn't the word I'd use to describe this opinion
the fact that this woman was slut shamed, was the victim of revenge porn, and all this other sexist nonsense, and thus had less room to navigate a situation like this than the various men still in office who have done worse, makes this whole thing kinda fucked and makes her a somewhat sympathetic figure, yes
Crazy this'll get someone to resign but blackface and other racists shit keeps you in office. The fact she was a victim of revenge porn is also crazy, that shit needs to be dealt with swiftly and harshly.
I was a little surprised why someone would have to resign for this, or thought "Well, just another thing about how America is so uptight... If it's a consensual relationship, who cares?" But, I did some digging to learn more why, and it's explicitly against house rules to have relationships with staffers. I worked on campaigns when I was younger and relationships on campaigns between staffers and even the candidate were relatively common ... not necessarily acceptable, but common as a sort of "open secret." At least, everybody would know somebody on some campaign who was allegedly hooking up with someone.
But, in 2018 in the wake of a slew of sexual misconduct allegations, the House passed bipartisan internal rules barring relationships between House members and their staffers:
It's explicitly against the rules, and was passed to prevent abuse, as well as a handful of other changes protecting accusers and shielding tax payers from footing the bill for law suits that come out of relationships like these:
In response to the "Ridiculous that Hill should resign when men wouldn't" or what have you, 8 male congressmen resigned amidst similar allegations of misconduct in 2018. The imbalance of power in relationships like this has always been on the periphery, but now they're front-and-center and this is a response to decades, or perhaps centuries, of potential abuse and liability.
I think people feel sympathetically for her because rumors suggest her husband also released compromising photos of her with the person she was seeing, so she's likely a victim of revenge porn as well.
But I think you're right in that if she was a man or a Republican woman, I don't think there'd be many people mourning her resignation over this. .. I'd have written her off as a scumbag. But that'd also change this story pretty significantly in the wake of why the House passed that resolution in 2018 in the first place.
But, in 2018 in the wake of a slew of sexual misconduct allegations, the House passed bipartisan internal rules barring relationships between House members and their staffers:
It's explicitly against the rules, and was passed to prevent abuse, as well as a handful of other changes protecting accusers and shielding tax payers from footing the bill for law suits that come out of relationships like these:
In response to the "Ridiculous that Hill should resign when men wouldn't" or what have you, 8 male congressmen resigned amidst similar allegations of misconduct in 2018. The imbalance of power in relationships like this has always been on the periphery, but now they're front-and-center and this is a response to decades, or perhaps centuries, of potential abuse and liability.
I think people feel sympathetically for her because rumors suggest her husband also released compromising photos of her with the person she was seeing, so she's likely a victim of revenge porn as well.
But I think you're right in that if she was a man or a Republican woman, I don't think there'd be many people mourning her resignation over this. .. I'd have written her off as a scumbag. But that'd also change this story pretty significantly in the wake of why the House passed that resolution in 2018 in the first place.
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Also I think it's unlikely that her political career is entirely over. MArk Sanford had one of the most scandalous sexual laisons, he paid an initial political price, but was back in congress a decade later and is now mulling an internal challenge to Trump in 2020 to weak him in South Carolina.
If she's a rising star in the House, it's unlikely to spell the end of her career
If she's a rising star in the House, it's unlikely to spell the end of her career
I know! how is one supposed to find love now a days?
they are like the Jedi Order or something
She broke house rules, it's unfortunate, but she made a poor choice and there should be consequences.
It sucks that Republicans aren't held to this standard, but it would suck even more if there were no standards for Democratic politicians as well.
The revenge porn stuff is inexcusable though, her soon to be ex-husband is rightfully going to get nothing from the divorce because of that.
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It sucks that Republicans aren't held to this standard, but it would suck even more if there were no standards for Democratic politicians as well.
The revenge porn stuff is inexcusable though, her soon to be ex-husband is rightfully going to get nothing from the divorce because of that.
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