New Roy Moore accuser will disclose allegations at Gloria Allred presser today

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108. Thank you, too, peabody.

I'm grateful she was there for me. I'm glad she's there for all of us women. She's been doing this, on this beat, for decades. My experience was in the late 70s. I had to go back and edit - reflexive assumption that it was 30 years ago. Nope - it was 40 years ago. And she's been on the forefront of this issue since before then. She already was THE legal go-to on this issue well before I ever sat down to that lunch with her that day. She's been On. It. as far back as I can remember being aware of women standing up for themselves against abuse, assault, and molestation. Who else has been, in all this time? Anybody? We've had some big-name high-profile women attorneys - Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, Attorneys General Janet Reno and Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Leslie Abramson, Marcia Clark, Marian Wright Edelman, Amal Clooney, Laura Wasser, Elizabeth Warren, Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood, Lisa Bloom (Allred's daughter), and the handful of women seated as Supreme Court Associate Justices. But there aren't a lot. And it's mainly Allred who's distinguished herself in this particular arena.

Women are lucky to have such an ally. Unrelenting, brilliant, gutsy, shrewd, willingness to put up a fight, and impervious to intimidation.