The MeToo Movement Brought Down A Political Star. Now His Hometown Has To Decide Whether He Can Come Back.
when a second woman came forward to accuse Kihuen of unwanted sexual advances.
And so it was that Santos was out knocking on doors nearly every day in residential areas of the ward, this time at a house where a woman did answer. Santos launched into a speech about how she was out trying to convince people not to vote for Kihuen.a candidate rather than for one. But that’s the message: Vote for anyone other than Kihuen.
“This has been one of the more difficult things I’ve had to do. I mean, it was not a comfortable path to take,” Swank said. “It wasn’t the thing that I wanted to do.
he did last month, laid it out most simply: His parents arrived in the United States not knowing the language or anyone in the area. Less than 30 years later, their son was a United States congressman.“Overall what a lot of us kind of sort of come to agreement on, is like, what he did was wrong,” Maria-Teresa Liebermann, the volunteer outreach lead for No Means No, Ruben, said. “There was a path to redemption. But that path is gone now. Simply by just trying to come back and run for office.
“It’s interesting to see Ruben’s response or reactions to this in his own words in English versus Spanish, and especially back here in the community. You know, when he was still in Congress and this was all happening, he was a little bit more remorseful. I don’t know if it was sort of forced remorse,” Liebermann said.
To be “that unhappy with someone's job performance but never bother to relay that to them would show extremely poor communications skills at best,” Register told BuzzFeed News in a statement on Monday. “For Mr. Kihuen to suddenly have an opinion about my job performance three years after the fact in the context of a conversation about sexual harassment seems like a convenient way for him to distract from his poor choices and inappropriate behavior.
Both Clary and Diaz are banking on the turnout being made up of informed voters, the kind who would bother to turn out in an off-year race. Neither has made a big deal of the Kihuen allegations and they’re not coordinating with No Means No, Ruben.
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