CT-05: Rep. Esty retiring after top aide's abuse allegations

[The Mikado]

Someone who did this has no business remaining in the public trust. I said it re: Franken and re: Conyers and it's just as true now. If Etsy turned a blind eye to her chief of staff giving a woman death threats and hitting her, that's totally unacceptable.

[The Mikado]

...but, she’s a woman. Women would never enable abuse to other women...right?

Who on Earth said that?

[The Mikado]

Someone who did this has no business remaining in the public trust. I said it re: Franken and re: Conyers and it's just as true now. If Etsy turned a blind eye to her chief of staff giving a woman death threats and hitting her, that's totally unacceptable.

Did you call for Mark Meadows resignation? His scandal with his chief off staff is the most similar to Esty's scandal.

What the hell is the point of calling for the resignation of someone from the opposite party? For example, I want Blake Farenthold gone and think it's insane that Farenthold got away with only not running for reelection rather than resigning, but your opinion doesn't really matter when you're talking about opposite party people.

Is this some sort of insane gotcha? Am I supposed to secretly be a Mark Meadows fan?

[The Mikado]

If Etsy doesn't retire, this could be the GOP's loan House pickup.

While you mean "lone," this works, too, because if the GOP picked up CT-05, it'd be on loan to them until 2020.

[The Mikado]

I don't see why so many people here are so opposed to cutting the dead branches off the tree to preserve the health of the tree. If a Dem is scandal-prone or hit with a legitimate bad story, he/she should go. Period. Same thing goes for Menendez in the other thread, btw. These people are poison for the rest of the party. She can be replaced by some other random Dem backbencher who hasn't covered up a sexual harassment/abuse case.