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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed May 17, 2017, 03:38 PM May 2017

New Hampshire lawmaker resigns amid charges of online misogyny

Source: Reuters



Wed May 17, 2017 | 2:58pm EDT

A New Hampshire lawmaker resigned on Wednesday following controversy over his comments on an online forum that critics called a hotbed of anti-women comments, the speaker of the state House of Representatives said.

Two-term state Representative Robert Fisher, a Republican, stepped down after a committee voted 8-6 not to censure him or remove him from office in a party-line vote, House Speaker Shawn Jasper said in a statement. Republicans control both houses of the state legislature.

"It is unfortunate that the debate surrounding his actions while serving in the House have detracted from the good things that we have accomplished this session," Jasper said. "But I welcome his resignation for the good of the institution."

Controversy has swirled around Fisher, who could not be reached for immediate comment, since the Daily Beast website reported that he had founded the "Red Pill" forum on the website Reddit.com and used it to make a number of critical statements about women.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-hampshire-politics-idUSKCN18D2H1

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New Hampshire lawmaker resigns amid charges of online misogyny (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
He will join the Trump administration to work on "Women's Issues" shortly Freethinker65 May 2017 #1
I've read Wawannabe May 2017 #2
Good riddance n2doc May 2017 #3
family values , hem. what family valuse . AllaN01Bear May 2017 #4
Message deleted by DU the Administrators keithbvadu2 May 2017 #5

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
3. Good riddance
Wed May 17, 2017, 04:11 PM
May 2017

I'll bet he shows up on some alt right internet site as a 'commentator'. Then MSNBC can hire him!

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