NE Dems Renounce Senate Pick After Joke About Group Sex Scene With Female Staffer

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Democratic Party called on its U.S. Senate nominee to drop out of the race Tuesday after he made sexually repugnant comments about a campaign staffer in a group text with her and other staffers.


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Why, in this day and age would you ever think that this was an intelligent thing to do?

The text, not the renouncing.

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Brilliant…f’ing brilliant.

Not that this seat was in any way competitive but it did give the Democrats a photo op for doing the right thing.

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“It will probably take three guys,” he wrote.

And that’s all he wrote.

Good riddance.

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“I’m going on no sleep and a bunch of exuberant excitement and I think I was out of line,” he wrote.

You think so?

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“Our Democratic Party has no tolerance for sexual harassment,” state Democratic Party Chairwoman Jane Kleeb said in a statement.

Of course, deplorable candidates can be found in both parties – but only one of them admits it.

One drives sexual harassers from its midst; the other nominates them for re-election as President.

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How many will it take to get Janicek to withdraw from the senate race?

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On the bright side, he’s about to have a lot more time to spend with his cupcakes.

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Sounds like a perfect republican candidate, just needs to swap sides.

Seriously, who in 2020 thinks it’s a good idea to not only do that in the workplace, but put it in writing…

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I cannot fathom how a person could muster the gross stupidity to do this. Yet day after day after day, a legion of nitwits tweet and text themselves into oblivion.

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Alcohol and cell phones are not a good mix.

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Crawl back under your rock you pathetic excuse for a person.

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He should make some racist and xenophobic comments as well, and who know maybe Republicans vote for him.

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Fine way for a cupcake baker to talk, I must say. :face_with_monocle:

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How do you get the guy to drop out? I am guessing this was not a onetime indiscretion.

Maybe the staffer should run

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Knowing nothing at all about her, I’d still voter for her.

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Ahh…drunk-texting like it was the 90’s again. Seems a disqualifying factor on judgement on at least 2 levels, and I’m sure I could find more. We’ll leave it to the party to clean this one up I guess…

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Poor judgement to say it. Worse this is what he is thinking about when dealing with young women.

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If he were running in Louisiana or Alabama this would vault him to a huge lead in the polls.