Probably because it does matter-- if he was texting a couple of 80-year-old ladies if they got home safe, that would be a much different connotation.
That seems far-fetched to me. The inference I drew was that on top of everything else, we were supposed to be horrified that he was a cradle-robber for being a 32-year-old man who dared to flirt with someone under 30. If you don’t think that’s what the author was implying, we can agree to disagree.
All I got from the ages was that a Married man was trying to hook up with similar-aged women whose numbers he got from his workplace.
Bad idea, however you slice it.
Yet another GOP horndog, it runs in the party.
I grew up in a generation when many marriages resulted from social contacts formed in the workplace. Yes, this doesn’t apply here, the guy was married. Nevertheless, people do form friendships that blossom into romance and then marriage at their jobs. However, in our current environment, especially were I a man, I’m not sure how you even broach the subject or ask a woman to dinner when you work in the same office. You run the risk of losing your job, no matter how tactful the invitation, nor how graciously you accept being declined. If you’ve misjudged the lady’s receptiveness you’re cooked. The safe (if not required) default mode seems to be don’t EVEN try to find a partner where you work. And that’s unfortunate, because I know many older couples, from my generation, that met at work and have great marriages.
He’s a white male Republican - all will be forgiven and forgotten in no time at all after the good Rep. prays for forgiveness and
attends a weekend outing with THE FELLOWSHIP at their DC Mansion.
If the married bible thumping Republican pervert was a Democrat, he’d be impeached!
Note however he is keeping his job…just resigned from leadership…so BFD
I thought he was going for The Reverse Trump.
In 3, 2, 1…he’ll introduce some assine “family values” legislation.
Nah, they will reelect him in a landslide… just like the guy who held a gun to his exes head and forced mistresses to get abortions, etc…you know family values.
How is it that politicians remain unaware the the “instant” save and send of our contemporary technology? Does the presumption of privilege (male. monied, connected and in the vast majority white) have something to do with it?
It has been a long long long time that it is best not to date within the same division/company, this is far from being a current environment thing.
Must be related to that GOP big tent outreach they so often talk about…this one seems to be in his pants however.
I know, right?!? I’ve had to train myself to look at the source of the story - not a bad habit anyway.
There’s a man on what is effectively the SF city council whose name is Scott Wiener who took on the job of crafting legislation banning public nudity in response to a public outcry over the number of gay men and women as well who would walk through town with nothing on but a smile on their face. Now they do not walk around completely nude, but the men wear what are happily called cock socks. How brave is it for a guy named Wiener to take on that task?
“Durham initially said that he did not recall sending messages to the women” Ssuuurreeee…I suppose he could have been blackout drunk.
This link needs to be archived so it can be referenced when “look at what Bill did” starts, and it will.
I love the City by the Bay, but sometimes it’s hard to defend it for all its liberalism pushed to ridiculous extremes.
When I was teaching a global politics class, I saved every link I came across illustrating the lying and counterproductive stupidity of the Iraq invasion. Surely Kos is compiling a list.
Years before emails and when we had secretaries typing memos from our Dictaphone tapes on Selectric typewriters, someone told me to never put in an office communication anything one would not care to have read out loud in court.
I hear ya, but shop owners and merchants were complaining that the tourist trade and business in general was being affected by the sight of nude men strolling through their businesses and shoppers brushing up to all the flesh. At first the City tried to ignore it in the name of freedom of expression or some such thing, but the outcry became too noisy.