The #MeToo allegations that could send Marsha Blackburn to the Senate
What can sink a political career more quickly than allegations of sexual harassment or assault? Allegations of working to cover up sexual harassment and assault.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., understands this dynamic and has decided to target her Democratic Senate opponent, Phil Bredesen, over his handling of records documenting sexual misconduct of state employees during his time as Tennessee governor.
First, Blackburn attacked Bredesen for allowing sexual harassment claims to double in one year while he was governor, referring to a 2005
Associated Press investigation. Then, she singled him out for his policy of SHREDDING DOCUMENTS related to sexual harassment allegations referencing another 2005 investigation, this one by
the Tennessean.
“There was an issue where sexual harassment claims doubled one year,” Blackburn argued during their last debate. And those claims weren’t properly vetted she claimed because “they died in that shredder, and their voices were not heard, and the reason was, ‘Well, this is what happens when men and women are in the workplace together, these issues arise,’ and that is an inappropriate response.”
Blackburn was paraphrasing a quote from Bredesen who, at the time, said “anytime you mix men and women together in a work environment there's going to be issues."
The #MeToo allegations that could send Marsha Blackburn to the Senate