The latest, Eric Schneiderman, is apparently #ARealPieceOfWorkToo.\u00a0 \u00a0Four women are coming out to note that the AG is one sick puppy:<\/p>\n
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\u2019d 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\u2019t \u201cliberated\u201d 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And when the woman looked for help among (inevitably) her fellow Democrats?<\/p>\n
Well, what do\u00a0you\u00a0<\/em>think happened (emphasis added):<\/p>\nAfter 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.<\/strong> 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\u2019d better be careful. She told Selvaratnam that she had taken this as a threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nEveryone’s got virtues to signal:<\/p>\n
The former girlfriend told Selvaratnam she found it \u201cshameless\u201d 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\u2019t sure that she could risk joining her. The former girlfriend told Selvaratnam she\u2019d once been so afraid of Schneiderman that she\u2019d written down an extensive account of the abuse, locked the document in a safe-deposit box, and given keys to two friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Democrats are nothing if not pragmatic.<\/p>\n
Also cold.<\/p>\n
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What is it with New York attorneys-general? I mean, anyone remember Elliot Spitzer?\u00a0 \u00a0 The former AG, who became governor, turned out to be a pretty depraved kinda guy. The latest, Eric Schneiderman, is apparently #ARealPieceOfWorkToo.\u00a0 \u00a0Four women are coming out to note that the AG is one sick puppy: According to these notes, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66776,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66775\/revisions\/66776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}