Katie Hill resigning from office

[Beet]

It doesn't speak well of her character that she ruptured with her husband, but unless the relationship with the Finance Director was nonconsensual, it's not abuse of power.

[Beet]

Oh, I see what is unethical about this now - I was thinking of sexual harassment. In that case, should Bill Clinton have resigned over Monica Lewinsky? I always thought no (although he should perhaps have over other stuff).

[Beet]

Sad to see. A sexual relationship with a subordinate can be unfair to other employees, but it is not really that bad unless there is some abuse of power involved (e.g. Coercion). It is not inherently abuse. It should be up to the subordinate to determine whether they felt coerced.

The revenge porn aspect is a more egregious offense, IMO. The if the entire company of Gawker can go down for publishing that racist Hulk Hogan's pics, whichever website did this can be shut down to.

[Beet]

The fact that the blue avatars celebrate because a smear campaign by an abusive husband against his ex-wife has succeeded makes me sick.

May I ask what basis there is to call this a "smear campaign"?

Because she's a woman and he's a man. Best to just move past this and get a better Democrat in there.

Given that the Democrats have been getting destroyed in competitive elections post 2018, it'll be interesting to see if they can keep this seat.

[Beet]

The fact that the blue avatars celebrate because a smear campaign by an abusive husband against his ex-wife has succeeded makes me sick.

May I ask what basis there is to call this a "smear campaign"?

Because she's a woman and he's a man. Best to just move past this and get a better Democrat in there.

Given that the Democrats have been getting destroyed in competitive elections post 2018, it'll be interesting to see if they can keep this seat.

Where?  In NC-9 and PA-12 the Democrats outperformed Trump's numbers.   In NC-3 the Republicans more or less just held their ground (in a very rural, safe R seat).

There literally hasn't been any special elections in truly competitive districts/states in 2019.

I'm not even going to address the cherry picking and spin in the above, except to note that you're forgetting the Wisconsin state Supreme Court election, in which 1.2 million votes were cast; it was a statewide election in what is a likely tipping point state next year.

[Beet]

She should have dug her heels in and stayed. Nobody cared.

I was reading somewhere about a typical Trump supporter who said they would support him no matter what he did - this man was rather honest - and it all came down to "because he takes no sh**t." People want someone who will fight. Too many people in our society crumble and cave, issue public apologies to no one in particular that are not accepted by their detractors, fold to critics upholding a hypocritical sense of morality. He is popular because, in his supporters' minds, he has the right enemies, he defies the right people, he is attacked in the "right" ways, and he, unlike they, gets away with it. This, I am convinced, is a great deal - perhaps the greater part - of Trump's appeal.