Sanders says he did not know about sexual harassment allegations during campaign

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158. Just like you must not ignore these revelations on Hillary Clinton? Its just news after all

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/30/16953480/hillary-clinton-sexual-harassment-burns-strider

On the night of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, Hillary Clinton published a statement on her decision not to fire a campaign adviser who was accused of sexual harassment.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, a female staffer reported that Clinton’s faith adviser, Burns Strider, had touched her inappropriately, kissed her on the forehead, and sent her suggestive emails, according to Maggie Haberman and Amy Chozick of the New York Times. Clinton’s campaign manager at the time, Patti Solis Doyle, as well as Jess O’Connell, the campaign’s national director of operations, reportedly recommended that Strider be fired. But Clinton instead moved the female staffer to a different job, docked Strider’s pay, and ordered Strider to attend counseling — which, sources tell the Times, he never did.

Strider was later hired by Correct the Record, a group that supported Clinton’s 2016 run for president. He was fired a few months later, Chozick and Haberman write — among the reasons were reports that he had harassed a female aide.

Clinton had addressed the story briefly on Friday, tweeting that she was “dismayed” by the harassment report but “heartened the young woman came forward.” But a few minutes before Trump’s speech began on Tuesday night, Clinton posted a lengthier statement on Facebook, in which she attempted to explain her decision process at the time. Though Clinton admitted she wouldn’t make the same choice again, her statement falls short as an apology, attempting to deflect attention onto others and failing to address some of the key issues in the case.
“I didn’t think firing him was the best solution to the problem”

“If I had it to do again, I wouldn’t,” Clinton said of her decision to keep Strider on. But at the time, she wrote, “I didn’t think firing him was the best solution to the problem. He needed to be punished, change his behavior, and understand why his actions were wrong. The young woman needed to be able to thrive and feel safe. I thought both could happen without him losing his job.”

“Taking away someone’s livelihood is perhaps the most serious thing an employer can do,” she went on. “When faced with a situation like this, if I think it’s possible to avoid termination while still doing right by everyone involved, I am inclined in that direction.”

It’s not clear, however, whether Clinton really did right by everyone involved when she asked a woman who reported harassment to change jobs, while the man whose behavior she reported got to keep his.

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Now I'd never start an OP over this, even though some seem to think airing our laundry in pubic is somehow helpful. But just to show that we can find anything bad we want to on our friends and allies......and then post an OP about it, and then watch as the dividers go off on them and insinuate even more sinister reasons to further split our party. But again.......why?