Former lobbyist accuses Rep. Tom Reed, a potential Cuomo challenger, of sexual misconduct

[DonViejo]

Source: Washington Post/Apple News


By Beth Reinhard
March 19, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. EDT

Nicolette Davis said she was 25, on her first networking trip as a junior lobbyist for an insurance company, when she felt the 45-year-old congressman’s hand on her back. She and other lobbyists had gathered at an Irish pub in Minneapolis after a day of ice fishing, Davis told The Washington Post, and Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y) was seated to her left.

“A drunk congressman is rubbing my back,” she texted a friend and co-worker at Aflac that evening in 2017, adding later, “HELP HELP.”

Reed, his hand outside her blouse, briefly fumbled with her bra before unhooking it by pinching the clasp, Davis told The Post. He moved his hand to her thigh, inching upward, she said.

Frozen in fear, she said, she asked the person sitting to her right for help. He obliged by pulling the congressman away from the table and out of the restaurant, Davis said.

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[dutch777]

1. What are the chances of a Repub winning NY governship? Do women get to slap men anymore?

Or for that matter do men get to slap men when they are getting gropy? (I kept wondering when I read of Kevin Spacey's antics putting his hands down mens' pants uninvited, why didn't somebody punch him or at least slap him?)

[BradAllison]

3. Elsie Stefniak would love to run and win

So she could give Trump a pardon. She is in love with Con Don.

[dutch777]

6. Scary! Couldn't someone start a rehab facility for the poltically whacko?.. Sarah Palin is starting

to look semi-sane compared to the Gen 2.0 of Repub crazies.

[IcyPeas]

11. dog help us. she's best buddies with matt gaetz and gym jordan

[spooky3]

5. It's the power differential that matters here. Aside from

being stunned that this was happening, she was likely worried about what would happen if she made a scene. Predators and harassers know this, and that’s one of the reasons they choose their targets as they do.

[stillcool]

10. that Spacey one was quite the sham...

they never should have taken the case. When the alleged victim had to take the fifth so he wouldn't incriminate himself they finally dropped the case. I think his mother had issues, and was the driving force behind the whole thing. Doesn't really matter, because for some, Spacey will remain guilty for the rest of his life.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. NY had George Pataki (R) for 3 terms after he beat Cuomo's father

but Pataki eventually declined a 4th term and Spitzer (D) was elected (but ho himself got caught up in his own ordeals with prostitutes, resigned, and passed the mantle on to Patterson as Lt. Gov. (D), who had his own scandals swirling around him, after which he didn't run for a full new term, and we now are back to "a" Cuomo).

Moral of the story? It's not easy being a Governor of NY.

[BradAllison]

2. Sorry Trumpster, no pardon party for you.

Too bad for the Repigs they are 100 times worse and would have to be to want to pardon Rump.

[PSPS]

4. What a way to run a country

Aflac (and everyone else) apparently has a "lobbyist department" full of "junior lobbyists" presumably full of young, attractive women whose job it is to pal around with married "drunk congressmen" in order to influence the public policy crafted by the "drunken congressmen" to Aflac's benefit. What's a little disrobing and fondling of a 25-year-old woman by a 45-year-old married man when there's money to be made, right? It's all part of how legislation gets done.

[brooklynite]

7. Just to be clear, we can immediately believe an accusation made against a Republican?

[Demsrule86]

8. I expect it is payback...but it should be investigated...she tweeted it perhaps the tweet survives.

[Sneederbunk]

9. Especially if it is 4 years old.

[ck4829]

13. K&R