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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘NOT GAY’ Republican Candidate For Illinois Governor Accused Of Sexually Harassing Male Staffers
Another Republican 'Family-Values' Hypocrite!!..........
Dan Rutherford, an Illinois republican who is hoping to be the states next governor, is being sued for sexual harassment by a former employee. Thats not news, you say? That happens all the time? Theyre politicians, after all right? Well, this time is a little different. For some time Rutherford has denied that his behavior is sexually inappropriate with staffers, and of course that pesky little rumor about him being gay that just wont go away. So when Rutherfords director of community affairs and marketing, Ed Michalowski, filed charges in federal court, we here at AATTP ran for the lawn chairs and buckets of popcorn. Ed Michalowski is alleging in his lawsuit that during his three years of putting up with Rutherfords crude, dictatorial passes, he was not the only person to have to put up with Michalowskis wandering libido. That was a polite way of calling the guy a lecherous horn dog, just in case you missed it.
According to the Chicago Sun Times:
The lawsuit goes on to detail other instances of alleged harassment, including incidents at a Springfield bar, during the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., and at an office party. In August of 2011, at D.H. Browns, a bar in Springfield, Michalowski alleges that Rutherford approached him and said: If you go home with me you can have anything you want in the office. In another instance, the lawsuit alleges that Michalowski and Rutherford were attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August 2012 when Rutherford asked Michalowski to go up to his hotel room. When Michalowski refused, Rutherford allegedly became angry and said: You just said no to the treasurer, according to the lawsuit.
In December 2013, Rutherford allegedly went over to Michalowski at an office party, rubbed his shoulders and said to him, You need a full body massage. That was creepy, said another person who witnessed what happened, according to the lawsuit. Michalowski resigned last week amid fear of retaliation after Rutherford held a press conference denying the allegations, flanked by two former federal agents. Seriously what politician uses two big meaty guys as stage props while publicly denying rumors that hes gay? Ohhh, we get it
Watch Rutherford talk about not being gay in the video below. For more GOP sexcapades, check out this article on the founder of GOProud, an openly gay republican who says that bigotry is killing the party.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/not-gay-republican-candidate-illinois
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‘NOT GAY’ Republican Candidate For Illinois Governor Accused Of Sexually Harassing Male Staffers (Original Post)
Segami
Feb 2014
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angrychair
(12,496 posts)1. strange
Last edited Thu Feb 13, 2014, 08:57 PM - Edit history (1)
When you find humor in the oddest of places. Who says lines like "you just said no to the treasurer"....WOW! You have to a class A asshat to let that roll off your lips. I spit coffee when I read that....what a dumb ass.
dsc
(53,441 posts)2. He said treasurer which is his job he is treasurer of Illinois
Typing error on my part, "treasurer", is what meant to type.