#AnotherDemocratToo

What is it with New York attorneys-general?

I mean, anyone remember Elliot Spitzer?    The former AG, who became governor, turned out to be a pretty depraved kinda guy.

The latest, Eric Schneiderman, is apparently #ARealPieceOfWorkToo.   Four women are coming out to note that the AG is one sick puppy:

According to these notes, the former girlfriend told Selvaratnam that she had been in love with Schneiderman, but that in bed he had routinely slapped her hard across the ear and the face, as tears rolled down her cheeks. He also choked her and spat at her. Not all the abuse had taken place in a sexual context. She said that Schneiderman had once slapped her during an argument they’d had while getting dressed to go out. The blow left a handprint on her back; the next day, the spot still hurt. When the former girlfriend objected to this mistreatment, he told her that she simply wasn’t “liberated” enough. Just as Schneiderman had done with the other women, he had pushed her to drink with him and to set up a threesome, and he had belittled her work and appearance, saying in her case that she had fat legs and needed Botox.

And when the woman looked for help among (inevitably) her fellow Democrats?

Well, what do you think happened (emphasis added):

After the former girlfriend ended the relationship, she told several friends about the abuse. A number of them advised her to keep the story to herself, arguing that Schneiderman was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose. She described this response as heartbreaking. And when Schneiderman heard that she had turned against him, she said, he warned her that politics was a tough and personal business, and that she’d better be careful. She told Selvaratnam that she had taken this as a threat.

Everyone’s got virtues to signal:

The former girlfriend told Selvaratnam she found it “shameless” that Schneiderman was casting himself as a leading supporter of the #MeToo movement. She promised to support Selvaratnam if she spoke out, but she wasn’t sure that she could risk joining her. The former girlfriend told Selvaratnam she’d once been so afraid of Schneiderman that she’d written down an extensive account of the abuse, locked the document in a safe-deposit box, and given keys to two friends.

Democrats are nothing if not pragmatic.

Also cold.

 

16 thoughts on “#AnotherDemocratToo

  1. Politics aside, this is a powerful picture of how pervasive “circling the wagons” is.

    Politics; I wonder whether Schneiderman’s mitts are all over the comptroller’s squabble with Hornady? I would love to watch them both squirm as the police start realizing that they’re not going to be able to get the ammunition they need in the quality they want.

  2. At this point it fair to consider any male liberal in politics, academia, or the media a secret sexual predator.
    Just imagine what must be going on between grad students and their professors. Young females desperate for an academic career, and horny old PhD’s who hold the golden key.

  3. The first question for Dem candidates for NY office going forward will be……..”So when did you stop beating your wife?”

  4. Another thought is that we might infer that we ought to be uneasy when a politician asserts his fealty to a given notion #too# strenuously. Regarding Schneiderman specifically, the fact that he was talking about protecting women while dating a series of women instead of marrying one is troubling. Yes, I know that liberals aren’t as keen on marriage as conservatives tend to be, but the fact does remain that out of wedlock sexual relationships have about twice the rate of domestic assault as marriages. It makes a difference.

  5. The first question for Dem candidates for NY office going forward will be……..”So when did you stop beating your wife?”

    I think “wife” doesn’t begin to cover it with these “guys”.

  6. Be mindful of the liberal trend toward making all that was once illegal, legal, and inevitably protected by law.

    Perhaps Eric Schneiderman is merely a man ahead of his time.. 🙂

  7. Quote from someone named Garance Franke-Ruta: The women’s liberation movement was a reaction to the men of the left.

    Followed up by another:

    More and more it becomes apparent why so many women of the left believe in a rape culture. That’s the experience in their social social and professional circles

  8. Regarding rape, abuse, and harassment culture, Fortune magazine just had an article about the matter, and the degree to which business gets done in places like strip clubs just astounded me. Places like Nike, too. You would think you’d see that in a place that’s been there for 100 years, and where most of the senior managers are on “on the job retirement”, but Nike?

    Another point of reference; I once forwarded the old joke about the professor who is approached by the sultry coed who would do anything, anything to get a passing grade (the prof responds “would you….study?”) to my brother at Berkeley, and his response was “oh, for such plausible deniability”.

    Now I’d hesitate to say that it’s that much more prevalent on the left–it’s not like our President is a shining example of rectitude here–but I do think it is safe to say that progressivism is no bulwark against this sort of thing.

  9. I suppose that part of it is that in the world of the bourgeois, where Leftists dominate, men and women mix in professional contexts frequently. Anytime you have men and women in close contact, sex will appear. I suspect that more blue collar jobs are sexually segregated than the white collar professions.

  10. While I appreciate the need to be fair and not overgeneralize, I did/do find those quotes and their implications highly interesting given the detritus of the MeToo movement.

  11. I laughed out loud this morning when I heard about Schneiderman. This self righteous, left wing elitist, proves himself a hypocrite.

  12. No wonder leftist skaanks shave their heads, stop bathing and put hog rings through their noses.

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