Fired GOP Staffer Threatens To Out Legislators’ Extramarital Affairs

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/fired-gop-staffer-threatens-to-out-legislators-extramarital-affairs.html

by Robin Marty
March 15, 2012
11:00 pm



There are some Minnesota legislators shaking in their boots tonight. A former legislative aide, fired after his boss, the Senate Majority Leader, stepped down from leadership after admitting to an adulterous affair, is now accusing the state’s Republican party of gender discrimination. His argument? That if he were a female subordinate of a male boss, the affair would have gone unreported.

And in order to prove his case, he’s announced that legislators sleeping with their staffers will be deposed. “In preparation for the lawsuit, [ex-staffer Michael] Brodkorb’s legal team is prepared to dig deep into the romantic lives of legislators and staffers. ‘He intends to depose all of the female legislative staff employees who participated in intimate relationships, as well as the legislators who were party to those intimate relationships, in support of his claims of gender discrimination,’ his attorney said in the document setting up Brodkorb’s reason for a possible wrongful dismissal lawsuit.”

But is the suit an actual case of gender discrimination, or is it an excuse to expose a bunch of hypocritical politicians who are also having affairs? The MNGOP is accusing him of “extortion” saying that he is using his case to try and wheedle $500,000 in damages from them in a settlement. Brodkorb, meanwhile, retaliated with a point by point list of the merits of his case and the falsehoods he claimed the GOP had engaged in regarding his termination.

Lesson here? Never fire a person trained in opposition research.

[mucifer]

1. The issues are important, not extra marital affairs. Kennedy? Clinton?

[fasttense]

3. Oh no, consenting adult sex. We may never recover. But RepubliCONS prefer

really sick sex:

Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after “sexually explicit” emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush introduced during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

http://www.staticbrain.com/archive/stop-republican-pedophilia/

[CanonRay]

5. I don't recall either Kennedy or Clinton claiming how holy they were.

It's the hypocracy that is the issue for me, not the affairs.

[PassingFair]

12. Clinton flat-out LIED. He is a total hypocrite.

I don't know if Kennedy was ever actually ASKED about
his horn-dog ways....

[BootinUp]

14. Theres plenty of adulterers

who would lie if they were asked. You seem to not get that. Lieing happens all the time. Who did it harm when Clinton lied? That is the more important measure. I submit that more were harmed by the discovered adultery than by the lie.

[belcffub]

15. doesn't matter... if your under oath

and especially if you are the President you don't lie... you lie under oath you break the law... doesn't mater what it is about...

[LanternWaste]

17. The double-standard kept by those who moralize about "family values"

Lying about an affair-- even under oath is irrelevant in this particular context.

The double-standard kept by those who moralize about "family values" yet live adulterous lives, however, is quite relevant.

[BootinUp]

18. Yeah ok.

Thats a very nice black and white worldview you got there, wonder how it holds up if it was someone you had a personal involvement with. This was about political power, and not some violent crime.

[belcffub]

20. I don't care...

you lie under oat you break the law... it's a simple law... don't want to feel like you need to lie about hanky panky with your intern... keep you johnson out of your interns mouth...

i mean come on... your the president... you are supposed to uphold and enforce the laws of the land... not break them...

[PassingFair]

16. I know theres plenty of adulterers.

Doesn't mean they're not hypocrites or that I should admire them.

[Zalatix]

2. I see an unmanned drone somewhere in this person's future.

[deutsey]

4. Gay community apologizes to Amy Koch for ruining her marriage

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/12/gay_marriage_amy_koch_michael_brodkorb.php

The gay and lesbian community of Minnesota has issued a letter of apology to recently resigned Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch for ruining the institution of marriage and causing her to stray from her husband and engage in an "inappropriate relationship."

"On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community's successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage," reads the letter from John Medeiros. "We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love have cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry."

SNIP

Koch, Brodkorb, and their fellow Republicans campaigned this year to put a constitutional amendment on next year's ballot to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman, thus forbidding gay marriage. Sadly, the amendment comes too late to prevent Koch from straying from her own marriage.


MORE at link...

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Very Clever

Thanks for posting that.

[SnowCritter]

6. The chickens are coming home to roost

for the party of "Family Values".

Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming.

[Bosso 63]

7. Stay classy republicans.

I have to give Brodkorb some credit, he knows how to burn his bridges.
Now I have to go make some popcorn.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. That beats the revenge I exacted upon the boss who fired me.

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When he decided to run for Council, I donated my time to other candidates and made sure they won and he lost. Which is what happened and that made me happy. I like this twist much more.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Extortion 101...

I'll bet a bright shiny dime any suit he brings will be quietly settled and he'll get a nice check to go away. The fun here is seeing if names are leaked to get better "leverage" in the shakedown.

[Ken Burch]

11. Well, he IS probably right about the double-standard thing.

This isn't really about adultery...when you get right down to it, it's Republican outrage that a woman(and a REPUBLICAN woman at that)is actually ENJOYING sex.

[lame54]

13. It's blackmail to keep his job

[nanabugg]

19. The real issue that no one seems to want to talk about is how sex is used for job advancement

for people who may not be qualified or who may not merit the career advancement, bonuses, and other benefits lavished on workplace paramours. Some folks play by the rules and get passed over for promotions and raises just because he or she refuses to sleep with the boss or bosses. That's the real issue, especially in legislatures..Federal, state, and local.