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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 12:29 PM Apr 2018

Step down, Gov. Greitens, or prepare to be impeached

Step down, Gov. Greitens, or prepare to be impeached
By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board
April 11, 2018 07:10 PM

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens should step down, or prepare to be impeached. Because what happened between him and his former hairdresser wasn’t an affair, but a physical and sexual assault on the woman, according to the description of his despicable behavior detailed in the unsparing report the House committee investigating the governor released on Wednesday.

Over many hours, the woman told the panel under oath that the governor had slapped her more than once, and had coerced her sexually. On one occasion, she said, he “out of nowhere just, like kind of smacked me and grabbed me and shoved me down on the ground.” All five Republicans and two Democrats on the committee signed the report, and said they believed the woman’s story and found her “to be an overall credible witness.”

She told the committee that during her initial sexual encounter with the governor, while she was blindfolded and restrained against her will, Greitens told her that if she ever so much as said his name, he’d see to it that everyone would see the half-naked photo of her he’d just taken, “and everyone will know what a little whore you are.”

http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article208648249.html
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Step down, Gov. Greitens, or prepare to be impeached (Original Post) workinclasszero Apr 2018 OP
One of the Democratic State Reps Sherman A1 Apr 2018 #1
Yeah I think even the republicans are turning against the creep workinclasszero Apr 2018 #2

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. One of the Democratic State Reps
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 12:55 PM
Apr 2018

that is on the panel was speaking recently at a town hall in North St. Louis County that I attended and he stated that while he could not go into any details of the committee's work or what they had heard, everyone on the committee was taking the work very seriously.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. Yeah I think even the republicans are turning against the creep
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 12:58 PM
Apr 2018

If found guilty I hope the perv is convicted and does jail time.

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