In California, harassment scandals roil ruling Democrats

[DonViejo]

Resignations and turmoil are upending 2018 plans.

By DAVID SIDERS and CARLA MARINUCCI 12/24/2017 07:33 AM EST

LOS ANGELES — A national reckoning on sexual harassment that got its start in Hollywood is now upending Democratic politics throughout the nation's most populous state.

Scandal-induced resignations will cost California’s Democratic Party its supermajority in the state Legislature at least temporarily next year, and the fallout is spilling into the 2018 elections. It’s scrambling calculations for some of the state’s most powerful politicians in Sacramento, and even House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was caught in the fray when she defended now former-Rep. John Conyers last month as an “icon.”

“We’re in unchartered territory here,” said Garry South, a veteran Democratic strategist who advised former California Gov. Gray Davis. “This whole issue has hit a critical mass in a very short time. I’ve never seen anything like it before — and I don’t know where it ends.”

The sexual harassment firestorm prompted by revelations about producer Harvey Weinstein has since burned through careers in Washington, Silicon Valley and statehouses around the country — including Sacramento. But the accusations unfolding in California are hitting the state’s dominant Democratic Party especially hard. The state Assembly is convening hours of public hearings dedicated to sexual harassment, while the state Senate leader, Kevin de León, recently announced the hiring of two law firms to investigate accusations of misconduct.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/24/sexual-harassment-allegations-california-democrats-306231

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1. This could get awkward for de Leon.

"...but some women activists say that [de León] hasn’t done enough, especially when it comes to protecting whistleblowers.

The heightened attention on disorder in the Legislature could prove a political liability for de León, who is mounting a bid to unseat the state’s senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, next year.

Among those who have been outspoken in their demands for more action is Christine Pelosi, chairwoman of the California Democratic Party Women’s Caucus and Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, who told lawmakers at the start of an Assembly hearing last month, 'We have rapists in this building. We have molesters among us.'"

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/24/sexual-harassment-allegations-california-democrats-306231

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2. Politico is so fun of shit. Any opportunity this reaganesque founding rag can to belittle Democrats

it will.

It also tells me they don't know WTF they are talking about in regard to California or California elections.

In fact this Politico's is distorted and full of inaccuracies. For one thing, Pelosi never defended Conyers, and in fact once the facts had been known, she called on Conyers to resign. Funny why they left that out.

It is pathetic how they are implying that the actions of Weinstein are somehow due to the Democratic party in California, and they are responsible for their actions.

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3. only Democrat politicians? suuuure

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4. In California primaries the highest two vote getters run against each other in the general

election, this means two Democrats could face each other in the general election, it seems that Politico is oblivious of California poolitics