Senator 'In Shock' As Trump-Backed Neb. Governor Candidate Put Hand 'Up My Dress'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Nebraska Republican state Sen. Julie Slama said she was “in shock” when Donald Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster allegedly put his hand “up my dress” at a GOP dinner.

Slama detailed what she has described as an “assault” in 2019 in an interview Thursday, the day the Nebraska Examiner reported that she and seven other women had accused the Republican businessman of groping them.

“As I was ... walking to my table, I felt a hand reach up my skirt, up my dress and the hand was Charles Herbster’s,” Slama said in an interview on News Radio KFAB in Omaha. “I was in shock. I was mortified. It’s one of the most traumatizing things I’ve ever been through.”

Slama added: “I watched as five minutes later he grabbed the buttocks of another young woman. ... This was witnessed by several people at the event.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/senator-shock-trump-backed-neb-031222994.html

[Deuxcents]

1. Tfg loves these kinds of people

[spanone]

18. He IS one of those kinds of people.

[vanlassie]

27. He doesn't even stop!

[LiberalLovinLug]

32. Par for the course for the Trump Party

They literally almost worship a con man that brags how he can just walk up to any woman and grab her by the genitals and she can't do anything about it if you are a big enough entertainment star.

Seriously the disconnect with, especially, the "Christian Right" with this issue is appalling.

[Demovictory9]

51. he sure does

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. That probably catapults him to the top of the polls.

He’ll deny it, the cult will back him and he wins the seat.

I’d be surprised if it goes a different way.

[gratuitous]

3. So Sen. Slama, you're in the Crotch-Grabbing Party

And you're shocked that your crotch got grabbed by a fellow party member, who has flat-out called you a liar, that it never happened?

What are you prepared to do about it?

[Trueblue1968]

22. LOCK UP THE GOP BUTT GRABBER. 12 years in the slammer -- says ME, a woman who's tired of this POC

[Buckeye_Democrat]

39. Exactly.

It's like being shocked by catcalls while walking past locked-up felons inside a penitentiary.

Abhorrent behavior that she should never have to endure anywhere. On the other hand, why place herself in close proximity to those creeps?

[LakeArenal]

40. Exactly. .

[Casady1]

4. Give me a break

It is not like this party doesn't approve of this conduct.

[agingdem]

9. but she'll

vote for Trump if he's the 2024 Republican nominee...and voted for Trump, a sexual predator, in 2016..spare me the outrage...

[2naSalit]

5. I dunno..

Last guy that tried that on me had to be revived by his buddies after my immediate response.

Self defense, you understand.

[Trueblue1968]

24. i would have slugged him in the nose then i'd twist OFF his "thingy" and i do mean OFF.

[paleotn]

37. ....

[GoCubsGo]

6. The only thing shocking about this is that she is shocked by it.

She must live a massively sheltered life. I'm willing to bet she also mocked the "Me too" movement.

[Achilleaze]

7. The Herbster was totally in on the violent Republican assault on America 1/6

And he is totally on board with THE BIG LIE - which is of course what the majority of Repubes are still embracing.

Instead of an Own Goal in soccer,
for republicans it's an Own Sucker in politics

[LonePirate]

8. Geez. How else do you think he earned that endorsement?

[Walleye]

10. Pervs of a feather. I hate gropers.It is a sick power trip,nothing more

[captain queeg]

11. If you are famous you can do anything you want...

[plimsoll]

15. I believe the quote was "If your a star" but that was my first thought.

[captain queeg]

19. I couldn't remember for sure and didn't care to complete his next statement.

About grabbing ‘em…

If someone keeps telling you who they are, believe them.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

31. May he choke on his tic taks n/t

[Omaha Steve]

12. Carol Blood is the female D candidate in the race for Governor

She is a sitting State Senator. She has condemned this behavior.

You can donate to her here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/duforblood

[Celerity]

13. I wager Trumpy would try to short-finger Slama as Fox type blondes seem to make the mushroom quiver

[Bucky]

14. GOP POV: why have power if you don't use it to harass women?

It's always about worshiping power with these feebs

[NewHendoLib]

16. The GBP party of TFG

(grab em by ..you know)

[Turbineguy]

17. So he's qualified then.

[malaise]

20. Why is she shocked?

That's the 'g'ab em by the pussy' Slobfather.

WTF did she expect?

[blm]

23. When you're a celebrity they let you do it.

Right?

[IronLionZion]

25. That's a basic requirement in Trump's GOP

[AverageOldGuy]

26. Why not . . .

. . . Having never been female and certainly having never been a female official in the public eye, I may be wrong . . . but . . . seems to me if someone stuck his hand up my skirt, no matter where it took place, I would stop, grab his hand, and shriek at the top of my voice "Why are you sticking your goddam hand up my skirt?" and then I'd slap the living shit out of him. Ditto for grabbing my butt.

But that's just me.

My daughter got tired of the office groper and one day, when he leaned against her at the copy machine, she turned around, and shouted at him: "Do that one more time and I'll reach down your pants, pull out your dick, cut it off and feed it to you!!!"

He left her alone from that point on.

[Botany]

28. And look who he is out campaigning with ...

[Evolve Dammit]

29. GOP; Grand Old Pussygrabbers. They love this shit. "When you're a star, they let you do anything"

[DFW]

30. A Republican is shocked when a Trump-backing Republican behaves like Donald Trump?

Keep the smelling salts ready when someone informs her that fish swim and birds fly.

[BobTheSubgenius]

33. In other circumstances, he would have been sent to Political Purgatory already.

Good thing for him he's not Al Franken.

[paleotn]

34. Shocked? I'm not.

[orwell]

35. It's not a "flaw"...

...it's a "feature" of the modern RePubeLieCON party.

[Captain Zero]

36. Now. If his name was Cuomo then...

It would be different. He would have to go.
Or especially if his name was Franken.

[LakeArenal]

42. Democrats were pretty much on both Franken and Cuomo should go.

So there’s that.

[C Moon]

38. I'm sure tfg got her vote, though. And will continue to get her vote.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. Easy for me to say, but if that happens grab the hand and run with it. Let the perp explain

Easy for me to say, but perhaps best to make a spectacle right then and there to put a stop to it and shine a spotlight on the perpetrator. Probably also a groomer.

Easy for me to say because it would also attract withering attention on the person (almost always a woman) who was victimized and took action. However, at a dining event like that it is unlikely that any explanation by the asshole would make any kind of sense. If the privileged idiot is dragged by their hand out on the floor, their story would not be believed. "I was sitting eating my dinner and she grabbed my hand and threw me to the ground for no reason at all!"

Failing being able to grab the hand or being unable to defensively retaliate with a slap or something, calling it out then and there, making a huge angry shout and stink would have the effect of forcing shitty dicks back into the shadows. With the ensuing publicity, others may come forward. A hand up a skirt at dinner is unlikely to be the first time it was tried.

Easy for me to say and I have strong sympathy for those who remain silent or only speak up years later. It is so shocking that it is paralyzing in the event and in memory.

[Skittles]

49. EXACTLY what I would have done

THIS FUCKER JUST PUT HIS HAND UP MY DRESS I would be yelling, while kneeing him in the crotch

I agree it's not easy for others though......

[Blue Owl]

43. Wish he woulda pulled back a bloody stump

Time for these perverted GOP sick fucks to learn the hard way...

[Midnight Writer]

44. Sorry, Senator, but he is the true Republican. You are the one out of step with your Party.

[Rebl2]

45. Why would she

be shocked tfg endorsing someone like that? Sounds like something he would do-his kinda guy.

[soldierant]

46. May he fall like an autumn leaf

except may he land harder.

[canetoad]

47. His name sounds familiar

So I had to check.

NYT Nov 9 2021

At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net
...snip
Mr. Flynn was also present at the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5 for a meeting that included about 15 people, where the discussion centered on “how to put pressure on more members of Congress to object to the Electoral College results,” according to one attendee, Charles Herbster, a Republican candidate for governor of Nebraska.

Among those in attendance, according to Mr. Herbster, were Mr. Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr.; Mr. Giuliani; Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama; the Trump advisers Peter Navarro, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie; and Mike Lindell, the MyPillow executive and conspiracy theorist
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/us/politics/jan-6-subpoena.html

[Skittles]

48. he would be minus a hand if he tried that with me

I am NOT kidding, the few guys who ever did something creepy to me were subsequently VERY FUCKING SORRY.

[usonian]

50. (SARCASM) What if he was checking for a concealed weapon?

And what if she had one?

Asking for a friend.

[Demovictory9]

52. 'Saddened and also surprised': Voters react to allegations of sexual assault by Charles Herbster

https://www.ketv.com/article/nebraska-voters-react-charles-herbster-sexual-assault-allegations/39738882#

[XacerbatedDem]

53. I'm kinda shocked, too...

... by how many comments above imply that she deserved what she got for being a Republicon.

No woman who has suffered sexual assault deserves that. Period.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. Who Said Such A Thing?

I saw comments that she shouldn't be surprised, given the company she's keeping, but none that said she deserved it.