Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, MD: *Inside 'DC-Area People, Places & Kavanaugh'

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https://wamu.org/story/18/09/27/d-c-area-people-places-relevant-ford-kavanaugh-hearings/

9/27/18, The D.C.-Area People & Places Relevant To The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings," WAMU Radio, American Univ., DC. Excerpts:

Events occurring in the D.C. region have played a critical part in the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Here are the people and places that are likely to come up as Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to make sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, testifies before a Senate panel.

*Beach Week: A regional rite of passage in much of the mid-Atlantic for high schoolers, “Beach Week” was emblazoned in capital letters on the 1982 calendar that Brett Kavanaugh submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee as evidence that he did not attend a party where Christine Blasey Ford alleges he assaulted her.
While the calendar neither proves or disproves the claim, it does point to Kavanaugh’s participation in an annual tradition known as a boozy bacchanal at the end of the school year. Kavanaugh’s third accuser, Julie Swetnick, has alleged that the nominee engaged “in abusive and physically aggressive behavior toward girls,” including in Ocean City, Md. during Beach Week.

*Bethesda: An unincorporated suburban patch of Montgomery County, Maryland located just northwest of D.C. It’s very white and very rich, with a median income of nearly $200,000. What does it have to do with the hearings? Earlier this month, Bethesda-raised Kavanaugh said in a Senate hearing that he “grew up in a city plagued by gun violence and gang violence and drug violence” (referring, of course, to D.C.).
He most certainly did not—he grew up in Bethesda. Georgetown Prep, the elite private high school that has been under a microscope since Kavanaugh was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a party when he was 17, is also located in Bethesda.

*Brett Kavanaugh: The Supreme Court nominee was born in D.C. and grew up in Bethesda (see above). Both his parents were lawyers. Kavanaugh attended the Catholic all-boys Georgetown Preparatory School (see below), and then Yale University and Yale Law School. With the exception of his years at Yale and two years of legal clerkships, Kavanaugh has spent his entire life in the Washington region.
He was an associate counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel under Ken Starr and was part of the team that investigated a number of Clinton-era scandals. He served as an associate White House counsel in the George W. Bush administration, and was appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Bush...

*Christine Blasey Ford: Christine Blasey Ford was the first person to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Like Kavanaugh, Blasey Ford grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. Born Christine Blasey, she attended Holton-Arms (see below), an elite all-girls Catholic school. Blasey Ford told the Washington Post that she met Kavanaugh through the social circles of private school kids in the Bethesda area. Blasey Ford left the Washington area to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has not lived in the area since...

*Columbia Country Club: The club, located in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has claimed many of Washington’s elite, including former President Barack Obama, as members. Christine Blasey Ford’s family were long-time members of the club, where she was part of the diving team. Blasey Ford has said that she was at the club nearly every day the summer in question, and that the party where she alleges that she was attacked by Brett Kavanaugh took place nearby.

*Georgetown Preparatory School (Georgetown Prep): An elite, private, Jesuit all-boys high school in North Bethesda. Kavanaugh attended this high school in the early ‘80s (as did Trump’s other Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch). It’s while he attended Georgetown prep that he is accused of sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford (who attended an area all-girls school, see below) at a gathering when he was 17...The elite school’s partying and drinking culture has come under a microscope since the Kavanaugh allegations have come to light.

*Holton-Arms: The small private girls school in Maryland where Christine Blasey Ford went to high school. Shortly after Ford’s identity became public, 600 verified alumni of the school sent a letter to Congress in support of her. The class of 1984 (Blasey Ford’s graduating year) sent a separate letter of support...

*Julie Swetnick: A local woman who came forward on Wednesday with the latest allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. She’s a web developer who has held several security clearances for her work in government, according to the sworn declaration released by her lawyer Michael Avenatti. She graduated from Gaithersburg High School in Maryland...She says that often at high school parties, boys from Georgetown Prep would line up and wait to gang rape inebriated girls in rooms...

*Leland Ingham Keyser: A longtime friend of Christine Blasey Ford, who Blasey Ford says was at the party where she alleges she was attacked by Kavanaugh. Keyser has said in a statement that she doesn’t remember being at the party, nor does she know Kavanaugh...~ Read More,https://wamu.org/story/18/09/27/d-c-area-people-places-relevant-ford-kavanaugh-hearings/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Preparatory_School