HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? Kirsten Gillibrand Tries to Be Cool.
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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Mom ensnared in college admissions scam hosted Gillibrand fundraiser last week.
SHE’S A REAL PIECE OF WORK: Marc Thiessen: Gillibrand wanted to destroy Kavanaugh’s career but ignored sexual misconduct in her office.
This sort of behavior cost Elizabeth Esty (D-CT) her congressional seat. Why shouldn’t Gillibrand have to resign?
#METOO: Former Gillibrand aide resigned in protest over handling of sex harassment claims.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the most outspoken advocates of the #MeToo movement who has made fighting sexual misconduct a centerpiece of her presidential campaign, spent last summer pressing legislators to update Congress’ “broken” system of handling sexual harassment.
At the same time, a mid-20s female aide to Gillibrand resigned in protest over the handling of her sexual harassment complaint by Gillibrand‘s office, and criticized the senator for failing to abide by her own public standards.
In July, the female staffer alleged one of Gillibrand’s closest aides — who was a decade her senior and married — repeatedly made unwelcome advances after the senator had told him he would be promoted to a supervisory role over her. She also said the male aide regularly made crude, misogynistic remarks in the office about his female colleagues and potential female hires.
Less than three weeks after reporting the alleged harassment and subsequently claiming that the man retaliated against her for doing so, the woman told chief of staff Jess Fassler that she was resigning because of the office’s handling of the matter. She did not have another job lined up.
What did the Senator know and when did she know it?
FACT FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST GILLIBRAND: It’s received virtually no coverage in the Mainstream Media, but the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) has filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
“On February 5th, 2019, Senator Gillibrand posted a political fundraising tweet requesting readers ‘chip in $5 so we can put an end to this’ using a video of her on the House floor during the State of the Union address,” FACT told the committee in a letter earlier this month.
“Presumably Senator Gillibrand is aware of her ethics violation because she later removed the tweet after raising funds in violation of ethics rules, all of which should be returned,” FACT continued.
I have no doubt that, since this matter has now been brought to their attention, The New York Times, Washington Post, et. al. will even today remedy this serious oversight in their 2020 Democratic presidential nomination campaign coverage. Oh, and I will surely see a couple of pigs flying over my backyard tomorrow, too!
VIDEO: Voter Snubs Kirsten Gillibrand in Iowa Restaurant: ‘I’m Just Going to Get Some Ranch.’ “Ranch lady is all of us right now.“
“Get the hell out of my way!” the wise man once said.
JIM GERAGHTY: Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Kirsten Gillibrand. “Defending Big Tobacco, keeping rifles under her bed, studying with Jeanine Pirro, and having Edie Falco play her grandmother.”
THURSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM:
Eventually the food is served & [Kirsten] Gillibrand starts to eat her fried chicken with a fork. She looks around, sees other people eating with their hands and says “Um Kiki, do we use our fingers or forks for the chicken?”
When FDR had more of a common touch than you, it might be time to ask if you’re out of touch with America’s voters.
To be fair, at least Gillibrand is eating fried chicken. T-Bone’s buddy, who reminds everyone what a committed Vegan he is, should have lots of fun on the Soylent rubber chicken circuit.
(Classical reference in headline.)
ALSO A CLOWN SHOW: Gillibrand Cancels South Carolina Campaign Event Less Than 30 Minutes Before Start Time. Tweeted AP reporter Meg Kinnard, “This comes as no real surprise to me, because @SenGillibrand’s campaign strategy has stood in stark contrast to other candidates. . . . Mainly in that she doesn’t seem to have one.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Tapper Outs Gillibrand’s Immigration Deceit, She Responds With False History.
I’M SORRY, ISN’T THAT ABORTION BARBIE? Gillibrand Pressed by Maddow on Previous ‘Conservative Bona Fides,’ Apologizes for Being ‘Callous’ on Immigration.
THAT’S BECAUSE “INTERSECTIONALITY” IS STUPID: Kirsten Gillibrand’s Invocation of ‘Intersectionality’ Backfires. “For people who encountered the tweet but were not familiar with the slogan about the female future—which began as the rallying cry of lesbian separatists in the 1970s (those were the days) and is now the kind of feel-good feminist slogan that’s printed on baby clothes and sold in posh boutiques in my Los Angeles neighborhood—it was an incendiary concept.”
THE PARTY IS JUST RETURNING TO ITS ROOTS: Kirsten Gillibrand Says It Worries Her That the Top 3 2020 Dems Are All White Guys.
KAROL MARKOWICZ BRINGS THE SMACK: “The future is female,” Gillibrand tweets. Observes Karol: “Gillibrand has two sons, who apparently aren’t part of the future their mother imagines.” Yep. She’s a bad mother. Or just a political opportunist who’ll say anything without believing it if she thinks it’ll help her. Sad that I kind of hope it’s the latter.
HONESTLY, IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING A SOPHOMORE AT OBERLIN WOULD TWEET: NRA’s Loesch: Gillibrand’s ‘future Is female’ tweet ‘is pretty sexist.’
UPDATE: In the comments, a suggestion that Gillibrand’s “The future is female” sounds a lot like “Tomorrow belongs to me.”
THERE WERE DOUBTS? Kirsten Gillibrand won’t confirm Kavanaugh, but confirms that she is an idiot.
TAKE AWAY REASON AND ACCOUNTABILITY: Kirsten Gillibrand Says Republicans Are ‘Bullying’ Kavanaugh Accuser Into Testifying on Monday. “Um… that’s what she asked for.”
WAIT, I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL “ON US:” Kirsten Gillibrand Pays The Price For Speaking Out Against Al Franken.
Gillibrand wasn’t the only senator to publicly call on Franken to step down, but she was the first (but only by minutes) in a wave of female senators ― who were eventually joined by many of their male colleagues on the same day, Dec. 6 ― to do so. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), however, reportedly told Franken in private that he needed to go beforehand.
But Gillibrand has received the brunt of the blame for what happened, with many of her detractors saying the reason she came out against Franken was that she’s an “opportunist” who was positioning herself for a presidential run in 2020. Some Democratic Party donors have been reconsidering whether they would support her in a primary.
Most prominently, Gillibrand has attracted the ire of billionaire George Soros, who has long funded Democratic candidates and causes. Soros recently said he wasn’t sure whom he was supporting for 2020, but that it absolutely wouldn’t be Gillibrand. He accused her of going after Franken, “whom I admire,” to “improve her chances” for president.
Flashback to 2014: President Obama Launches the “It’s On Us” Campaign to End Sexual Assault on Campus. But apparently not Capitol Hill or Hollywood.
KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND HAS A FAMILY #METOO PROBLEM: Gillibrand rival slams her father’s ties to alleged sex-slave cult.
CAN SHE GO ANY FURTHER LEFT? Kirsten Gillibrand’s latest left turn. Is this a turn left and die for her career?
CAN SOMEONE TELL SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND $133M IS MORE THAN $54.4M? The numbers are significant because the New York Democrat — who is expected to mount a bid for her party’s 2020 presidential nomination — thinks the NRA has a “chokehold” on Congress that blocks gun control.
In fact, as LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst explains, the NRA spent “only” $54.4 million in contributions to, mostly, Republican congressional incumbents and challengers, while Priorities USA, the liberal PAC created and run by two former Obama campaign veterans, spent $133 million on Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton.
Add the spending totals by three other liberal PACs and NRA was outspent in 2016 $393 million to $54.4 million. So tell us Mrs. Gillibrand, how does $54.4 million buy more of a chokehold in the nation’s capitol than $393 million???
SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND: Trump Needs To Resign Or We’ll ‘Take Action.’
Jazz Shaw:
So what sort of “action” does she plan to take when the President inevitably ignores her demand and fails to slink away and hand the keys over to Mike Pence? She’s still not saying The I Word and isn’t even suggesting some sort of 25th Amendment workaround. What she wants now are hearings. Of course she does. If there’s one thing better than driving a president of the opposing party out of office, it’s clogging up the news cycle all through a midterm election year with hearings about his alleged bad behavior.
If we’re being fair to the Democrats here, though, it probably does strike some observers as curious that there aren’t any hearings going on regarding Trump’s female accusers from the past. Nearly everyone else in politics who has been accused has either resigned or faced some sort of inquiry. But Trump has maintained his desired status as Teflon Don and has avoided that particular spectacle.
It’s unclear at this point if Gillibrand could actually force any sort of action in terms of hearings.
It’s not about impeachment action. It’s not even about hearings. It’s about branding with the far-left progressives who might just determine the winner of the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.