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Joe Biden name drops Packwood
By JONATHAN TOPAZ | 9/19/14 2:06 PM EDT
Vice President Joe Biden on Friday offered praise at a Democratic National Committee women event for retired Sen. Bob Packwood, who resigned amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.
Appearing at the DNCs Womens Leadership Forum in Washington, the vice president suggested that the modern Republican Party is out of touch with its principles, citing a previous generation of GOP lawmakers who worked with Democrats on issues like voting rights. Its Republicans that were involved. Guys like Mac Mathias and Packwood and so many others. It wasnt Democrats alone, he said.
In 1992, former Republican Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon was accused of sexual harassment by 10 female ex-staffers. Three years later, after the Senate Ethics Committee unanimously voted to recommend his expulsion from the chamber, Packwood resigned.
Bidens comments at the womens event came the same day the White House announced the Its On Us campaign targeting sexual assault on college campuses.
The vice president made headlines for misspeaking earlier in the week, using the term Shylocks and the Orient while speaking at an event in Iowa.