Propaganda, Why Do We Believe the Falsehoods?

By

       M. Richard Maxson

      Have you ever thought about how much of your thoughts are truly and authentically your own and where did these ideas come from? Given the fact that only a handful of corporations control everything we read, see, and watch, it’s easy to see how public opinion and desire gets shaped even when what we take in is not true. The fact of the matter is that we are subject to propaganda, false advertising, opinionated news, and other methods of manipulating our thoughts and perceptions every day.

     Why do we accept and give credence to “false information or so-called fake news?” It's because our brains are wired to believe information automatically—even if it’s false. “It’s a useful skill for us to accept what people tell us, because often what people tell us is true,” says David Rapp, PhD, a psychology and education professor at Northwestern University.

      "When we hear new information, those fresh facts don’t override what we already knew before. Instead, both the new and old information live together in our minds. A few factors determine which one we’ll draw on when the situation comes up. Oftentimes, we’ll quote the information you heard most recently—even if it’s wrong. Because they’re fresher in our minds, short-term memories are easier for our brains to access than facts we heard longer ago.”

     "We are also inclined to buy into the facts that seem more plausible. Often, this means they fit better with what we want to believe, which could explain why people quote such different facts in political debates. “Both candidates said something that was objectively true or not, but people would ignore that information and go with their hopes, wishes, biases, preferences, or gut responses because it aligns with what they hope to be true,” says Dr. Rapp.

      Why do you think everyone seems to own the same things? How much of what you like to wear or eat is actually because you like it, and how much because you’re being told to like it? Everyone wants the newest iPhone or the latest pair of Nikes. We live in a consumerist world, a fact that has become so blatantly obvious that Americans are starting to look like clones of one another. Those who control the media controls what people purchase, talk about and think about.

      For a long time, the elite have used these tools to

influence our thoughts and actions, a tactic often referred to as frequency control. The use of repetition in the media is the tool that solidifies the false narrative. To quote Lenin, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” That works the majority of the time.....unless they get caught.

      That brings us to December 8^th 2017 which was one of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. It was kicked off by CNN, with MSNBC and CBS close behind, and countless pundits, commentators, and operatives. By the end of the day, it was clear that several of the nation’s largest and most influential news outlets had spread an explosive but completely false news story to millions of people, while refusing to provide any explanation of how it happened.

      It’s hard to say exactly how many people were swamped with this “false news” or as some call it “outright propaganda” by the CNN story. But thanks to Democratic-loyal journalists and operatives who decree every anti-Trump claim to be true without seeing any evidence, it’s certainly safe to say that many hundreds of thousands of people, almost certainly millions, were exposed to these false claims and many believed them and still do!!!

       How often do we step aside and question what we’re actually hearing? How often do we it for ourselves and use our own critical thinking skills instead of blindly believing what we’re told. The elite control so many aspects of our lives that it can sometimes be difficult to even think of our lives as being our own anymore. So, if you find yourself surrounded by billboards or listening to propaganda on the news, ask yourself: How is this affecting my decisions and my life? We must be vigilant. By raising our consciousness and educating ourselves, we can shield ourselves from this type of manipulation.

Truth Never Sleeps

by

       M. Richard Maxson

 

      For our year end publication we have compiled some unedited, truthful, thought provoking comments from people of various backgrounds, that have been marginalized in the western media. If any of these find you confused than thiese are a little food for thought as we approach the new year.

ON TODAY'S AMERICA

  "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.” -Thomas Sowell

"In a profound miscarriage of justice, federal law permits FBI agents to lie to us but makes it a crime for us to lie to them.”

- Judge Andrew Napolitano

"The blacklist against conservatives in Hollywood is very real.” 

 - James Woods

"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”

- Gore Vidal

"In the America I grew up in, cities didn't shield people who violated the law," 

- Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan

ON MEDIA

"President Trump has been good for business."

-Tony Maddox, head of CNN International

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.” 

- Edward R. Murrow

"Western media has allowed itself to become a conduit for propaganda for one side..."

 - Patrick Cockburn

"We live in a nation where we see exponentially more racist hoaxes than actual racism.” 

- Brian Hendrix

"Coverage of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press,” 

- Stephen Kinzer

"I just fear that the public is continuing to be fed propaganda that unassuming Americans don’t realize they’re being fed.” 

 - Amber Lyon three time Emmy award winning journalist.

FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S.

"We did an amazing job in the first decade of Putin’s rule of creating the illusion that Putin controls everything in Russia, now it’s just funny how much Americans attribute to him.”

- Gleb Pavlovsky, a political consultant who helped Putin win his first presidential campaign, in 2000.

"You're kidding, right?”  

- When Russia Today's top editor read the newly released report from the director of US national intelligence on Russia's hack of the U.S. election.

“What kind of idiots does one have to take Americans for to think that they can believe that stupid and incompetent [and] absurd (report)"

- Natalia Veselnitskaya - The Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr. in a highly scrutinized meeting last summer

"Rogue state America needs to stop pursuing its ruthless agenda, defiling rule of law principles, waging war on humanity at home and abroad, operating extra-judicially worldwide..” 

 - Stephen Lendman

"I'm all for the Russians not interfering in Ukraine, if indeed they actually are, when the US stops interfering int he Ukraine, Scotland, England, France, Germany, Cyprus, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto-Rico, the Marshal Islands, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and on and on and on and on. While the US exists none of the rest of us will ever be free.” 

- Jacqueline Brunder 

 

"America objectively poses a greater threat to peace than North Korea,” adding that “the entire world is scared and left guessing if it strikes or not.”

  - Konstantin Kosachev

       As you can see from the comments from outside the U.S. - the world view of America is quite different than what we are told here in this country. That is why I urge every citizen to read news from outside the western elite's sphere of media control. In doing this and using your critical thinking, not believing everything you read, your eyes should be opened to a new and different view of the world and ourselves. One that is not controlled by state induced propaganda.

A Journalist Laments the State of the News Media

As told to:

         George Sontag

     Journalism is broken and we can't agree on how to fix it. The theme that you hear constantly is that 90% of the media identifies as Democrats, Progressives, or Socialists and slants all news towards a Leftist philosophy and the other 10% that are not, are ignored. Consider the contrasting views of former New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse and Emmy Award-winning former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Each has written a book detailing her experience as a journalist and their thoughts on where the profession is headed.

      In Greenhouse's book, "Just A Journalist: On the Press, Life and the Spaces Between," she writes: “a journalist doesn't just have the right to express opinions but the obligation to do so.” This is the definition of “fake news” I.E. “Fake news is news reported with opinions and speculation. It is when a journalist selectively chooses and ignores facts, and interprets or paraphrases those facts to reach an unwarranted conclusion that conveniently validates his own views.”

     Attkisson sees things differently. As she spells out in "The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote," she thinks the media is in a mess of its own making. The public doesn't trust the media anymore, she says, because journalists have violated their own standards. "We in the business of journalism have exempted ourselves from the normal rules that used to govern us, and so the most egregious kinds of reporting errors are becoming more common." She added that most Americans "want their news straight up," and they're not getting it that way.

      Why is it this way? Is true journalism dead? Is tabloid journalism now the norm as Dan Rather has stated or is what we have today deliberate propaganda? The reasons for the descent into so-called fake news can be attributed to our own failings because....

• We've broken our own rules. Reporters are supposed to keep their opinions to themselves. Anchors are supposed to tell you the news, not tell you what to think.

• We're surrounded by the like-minded. Many journalists are white and come from the same socioeconomic backgrounds and live in large urban areas.

• We've become too comfortable with hypocrisy. The recent wave of sexual harassment scandals involving media figures — Charlie Rose, formerly of PBS and CBS News; Mark Halperin, formerly of ABC News and NBC News; and Michael Oreskes, formerly of NPR and The New York Times, etc. — shows that journalists don't do a good enough job of policing their own backyard.

• We try to be social workers and social engineers. We've gotten sidetracked into the idealistic mission of making better people and building a better society. That's not journalism.

• We take our cues from Washington and New York. These big cities have been given free rein in shaping the national discussion, while paying too little attention to what matters in small towns and rural areas.

• We let our bias show. Most all of us are anti-Trump and pro-Democrat. We don't even bother to hide it anymore. In fact, many of us seem proud of our activism and partisanship, which has no place in journalism.

• We tell ourselves that the ends justify the means. This is especially true in our battles against "deplorables," including the one in the White House. We cannot or refuse to be objective.

• We don't differentiate clearly the difference between editorials, columns, and news articles. Television viewers confuse reporters, anchors, and commentators. We've mixed it all together.

       To get back to real journalism we need to look in the mirror and confront what we've done wrong. We have to stop being defensive, be more introspective, and admit we have a problem. If we can do this, in time, the public may begin to believe us again.

America Going Downhill - What's Going Wrong?

By

 

       Zeno Potas

      A consortium of think tanks from almost 90 countries released their Economic Freedom of the World Report. The United States is no longer among the top ten countries when it comes to size of government, rule of law and property rights, soundness of the money supply, regulation, and free trade. We now rank twelfth, down from second as recently as 2000. For the record, we now trail Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, Mauritius, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia, Jordan, Chile, and Finland.

      U.S. legal system and our respect for property rights

we have fallen to 36th, trailing countries like Malaysia, Namibia, and Cyprus. The report concludes that the United States “experienced a significant move away from rule of law and toward a highly regulated, politicized, and heavily policed state.”

How did we get to this point?

      The world sees us differently than we see ourselves.

In today's world Americans live in a splendor compared with the rest of the world. We have achieved the highest stage of human progress ever known to mankind yet, all we ever hear are complaints about how horrible it is to live in such a rich, powerful country that has done so much for the world. There are many who want that to change. They want to tear down the foundation of what America has accomplished for their own version of utopia.

So, how did we get to this point?

     

      We refuse to teach patriotism to our kids, instead our kids are taught in schools and in media that our country is a horrible place and that everything that happened in America’s past as evil and backward and was founded by imperfect men that no longer are relevant. So it should come at no surprise that millennials lean to the Left when they constantly have liberalism shoved down their throats by their schools, their favorite musicians, and Hollywood?

      We coddle our best and brightest college students so much that they get “triggered” by hearing things they don’t like. We expose them to professors that are Communists and radical anti-Constitutionalists then expect them to be tough, competent and capable enough to keep the Republic going forward.

     Black and Hispanic Americans are incessantly encouraged to create and nurture racial grudges by the Left. Caucasians are constantly be put down, degraded, and discriminated against via programs like Affirmative Action, but still most Caucasians won’t increasingly adopt the same racist attitudes that the Left encourages minorities to hold.

      We bring in enormous numbers of immigrants from non-Western, Socialistic and often backward countries, immerse them in a Leftist culture that strongly discourages the assimilation that their fore bearers embraced.

      We ignore lawbreaking by illegal aliens while playing political games with our justice system based on whether a Republican or Democrat is being targeted and wonder why Americans are losing respect for the rule of law.

      Congress has written laws that are too complex for its own members to read and understand. Members of Congress in fact rarely read any legislation before voting on it and each political party is controlled by a small leadership group that punishes members who defy it instead of doing what is right for the country.

      We run up an astronomical debt that we never intend to fully pay off, large parts of which are held by nations hostile to us.

      We allow speakers we disagree with on college campuses to be violently shut down but continue to claim to have our right to free speech honored.

 

       The police now can charge exorbitant fees to allow someone to publicly exercise his Second Amendment rights and social media giants can quiet anyone they want with so-called “fact-checker censorship” financed by those outside the country that are not even American citizens.

    

      We trash the police at every opportunity and give the benefit of the doubt to the criminals they arrest instead of to them.

       We abandon the pure capitalism that made our country so rich, pile regulation on top of regulation, and exorbitantly tax the most productive members of society in order to create a system of Socialistic Corporatism. 

 

      The United States has been on the wrong course for decades. It is the proverbial snowball rolling downhill continuing to gain speed while rolling over everything in it's way. The question is – What will America resemble when it hits bottom?

Conspiracy - The Outing of the Deep State

By

       George Sontag

     

     Since the election last November, there has been a sustained, coordinated attack on President Trump's legitimacy following his victory in a free and fair election. Within 24 hours of Clinton's concession speech, campaign Manager Robby Mook and John Podesta had assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn't entirely on the up and up. The DNC had engineered the primaries to ensure a Clinton victory and her defeat was unimaginable. For a number of hours they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.

      The Clinton campaign had cozy, unethical relations with members of the mainstream media and it's embedded CIA operatives. A compliant media responded to the Clinton campaign's blame Russia strategy by pushing stories alleging wrongdoing by Russia. Not since the days of McCarthyism have so many in Washington been accused of consorting with Russians who wish to undermine American democracy. This had the potential to cause far more lasting damage to America than Trump's controversial style.

      The “Deep State” was not happy with his victory. They wanted his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton to prevail. For one urgent reason, that she was willing to pursue a more confrontational foreign policy toward Russia. Trump’s oft-repeated desire to normalize US-Russia relations runs counter to their vested interests.

      It is not surprising that after the election President-elect Trump began surrounding himself with military leaders as he hinted that he would take up President Kennedy's mantel of dis-mantling and revising the agencies. Some in his campaign thought an assassination was a real possibility. Surrounding himself with the military to stymie the undercover agencies was a means of protection that has so far, worked.

      Former CIA chief George W. Bush's speechwriter and current never-Trump activist David Frum echoed the CIA message to Trump; “you mess with us, get ready for a leak storm of Biblical proportions.” Shockingly, intelligence agencies were being publicly encouraged to abuse their power to stop Trump at all costs before he had even assumed office. After placing the military around him and giving them anything they wanted there was a change a plan from physical assassination to a political one. An avalanche of leaks and so-called “fake news” began to hit the American people. 

       Many allegations containing Russia have been taken seriously based solely on the institutional credibility of the accusers. It appears that members of America's intelligence community are some of the president's most passionate opponents. Aside from the lack of concern about the accuracy of the charges, intelligent chiefs were not discriminating about what was leaked in their anti-Trump crusade.

       On June 8, 2017, former FBI Director Comey acknowledged that he had a secret relationship with at least one newspaper with whom he shared classified or proprietary government information that advanced articles critical of the president. In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee former FBI director, James Comey admitted under oath that his leaks to the New York Times were designed to force the hiring of the special prosecutor.

      Subsequent analysis showed that the former director might have been engaged in this covert media operation for far longer and in many more press placements than he has acknowledged to date. Comey admitted to having the motivation, access, and ability to conduct what would effectively be a covert influence operation designed to damage the president.

      This has been only the beginning. The unprecedented level of unauthorized media leaks aimed at damaging president Donald Trump over the past year is an issue that goes way beyond freedom of press rights. It’s proof of the existence of the “Deep State” and confirms how powerful, secretive forces within the US state want this president ousted. To date, the only crime a related to the Trump/Russia investigation is the criminal leaking of classified information by U.S. intelligence officials.

It's Not News - It's CNN

By

      George Sontag

      CNN has in the past been called the Communist News Network. It doesn't deserve that title because there is very little news coming out of it. Tune in any day – any time and what you will hear is Trump,Trump, Trump, Trump, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Trump, Trump,

Where truth is buried

Trump. A recent survey showed that this is 93% of it's content. It is clearly NOT a legitimate news organization. They continue to say that they are. What they are is a mouthpiece for the extreme left. No stories critical of the Left are aired. A perfect example of this is what they don't air. To exclude the facts of anything is a lie or as some have called it “fake news”

• “Fake news is news reported with opinions and speculation. It is when a journalist selectively chooses and ignores facts, and interprets or paraphrases those facts to reach an unwarranted conclusion that conveniently validates his own views. “

      Today, in this country, the biggest stories are those of sex scandals and unwelcome sexual advances. However when these reports are about the Leftist Democrats – CNN ignores them.

      Here now are 24 reports, 19 are current in the past month, that CNN and it's parent company have deliberately ignored. Fair and balanced doesn't live at CNN.

1. Four new women accuse Bill Clinton of sexual assault. (11/20/2017)
The Daily Mail reports:

Bill Clinton is facing explosive new charges of sexual assault from four women, according to highly placed Democratic Party sources and an official who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations.

The current accusations against the 71-year-old former president — whose past is littered with charges of sexual misconduct — stem from the period after he left the White House in 2001, say the sources.

Attorneys representing the women, who are coordinating their efforts, have notified Clinton they are preparing to file four separate lawsuits against him.

2. Congresswoman accuses Democrat Bob Filner of sexually assaulting her. (11/21/2017)
The Huffington Post reports:

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) on Monday accused a former congressman of assaulting her while they were both serving in the House.

In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press Daily,” DeGette said that former Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) at one point tried to pin her in an elevator and forcibly kiss her.

“Some years ago, I was in an elevator and then-Congressman Bob Filner tried to pin me to the door of the elevator and kiss me. And I pushed him away,” DeGette said. “I mean, I was his colleague. He couldn’t take action against me. And believe you me, I never got in an elevator with him again.”

3. Democrat Raul Bocanegra resigns leadership position and won’t seek re-election over sexual allegations. (11/20/2017)
The Los Angeles Times reports:

Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra announced he will not seek reelection Monday, citing “persistent rumors and speculation” regarding sexual harassment claims.

“I spent my life advocating for the Northeast Valley, fighting for a fair share for our communities and residents,” Bocanegra (D-Pacoima) said in a statement. “It is because of my deep commitment to you, residents of the 39th Assembly District, that I have made the decision to resign from the State Assembly, effective September 1, 2018, and immediately resign my leadership position. I am also suspending my campaign and will not run for re-election.”

The statement came as The Times was preparing a story reporting that six women had accused him of sexual harassment.

4. Democrat congressional candidate David Alcon is arrested for stalking in New Mexico. (11/13/2017)
The Washington Free Beacon reports:

A Democrat running for Congress in New Mexico's second district was found and arrested at an apartment complex in Albuquerque on Friday, nearly two weeks after an arrest warrant was issued for him.

David Alcon is now behind bars after a woman accused him of stalking her, according to local station KRQE News 13.

The woman, who attended a Halloween party at a hotel in Santa Fe on Oct. 28, said she started receiving persistent text messages from Alcon—one with a picture of his genitals, some suggesting that he was watching her, and others professing his love for her.

5. 10 women accuse Colorado Democratic lawmaker Steve Lebsock of sexual harassment. (11/10/2017)
CBS Denver reports:

A former Democratic legislative aide is now the tenth woman to accuse Rep. Steve Lebsock, a Democrat representing Thornton, of sexual harassment.

On Friday, public radio station KUNC published a blistering report in which nine women, including Rep. Faith Winter, a Democrat representing Westminter, accused Lebsock of sexual harassment.

Winter says Lebsock became aggressively lewd at a bar on the last day of the 2016 legislative session when he found out that Winter’s husband was out of town.

6. Colorado Democratic House Speaker Crisanta Duran accused of ‘covering up’ sexual allegations against Democrat Steve Lebsock. (11/14/2017)
The Denver Post reports:

Colorado’s top Democratic lawmaker is under fire for how she handled a colleague’s sexual harassment complaint against a member of their party and now faces calls for an independent investigation.

House Speaker Crisanta Duran appointed Rep. Steve Lebsock, D-Thornton, as chairman of the Local Government Committee for the 2017-18 legislative session despite knowing that the fellow lawmaker made the allegation against him seven months earlier. The accusation became public Friday and was followed by harassment complaints from two other women.

Republican legislative leaders are demanding an investigation from the attorney general’s office to address what one GOP lawmaker called a “coverup.” Others are calling for the speaker’s resignation.

7. Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Dan Schoen resigns over sexual harassment allegations. (11/21/2017)
The MINNPOST reports:

DFL Sen. Dan Schoen's attorney, Paul Rogosheske, said the senator will resign in a Wednesday afternoon news conference. Schoen was facing mounting pressure to step down from top leaders in his own party, including Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton.

On Nov. 8, MinnPost reported allegations from two women that Schoen, 42, had sexually harassed them. One of the women, Lindsey Port, a former DFL candidate for the House, said in 2015 Schoen came up from behind her at a campaign event and grabbed her buttocks, telling her she had a "good door-knocking ass." Schoen, a first-term senator, was serving his second term in the House at that time.

8. Third woman accuses California Democrat Sen. Tony Mendoza of sexual harassment. (11/16/2017)
The Sacramento Bee reports:

A third woman is alleging that Sen. Tony Mendoza behaved inappropriately toward her when she worked in his Capitol office seven years ago.

Haley Myers said she told the Assembly in 2010 that Mendoza engaged in behavior that she considers sexual harassment when she worked as a legislative aide for him in Sacramento.

9. Sexual harassment controversy threatens to ensnare California Democratic Senate leader Kevin de León. (11/11/2017)
The Mercury News reports:

The controversy surrounding sexual harassment in the state Capitol deepened on Friday and threatened to ensnare one of the Legislature’s leading Democrats, Kevin de León, as questions swirled over when the Senate leader became aware of complaints against his weekday roommate.

The plot thickened after a lawyer for a fired Senate staffer told Capital Public Radio that her client and two other employees were handed termination letters in the same meeting in which they detailed inappropriate behavior by their boss, Sen. Tony Mendoza, toward a young female intern.

The attorney’s account contradicted the timeline provided Thursday by De León’s office, raising questions about what the Senate leader, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, knew about the harassment allegations.

10. Democrat Randor commissioners president Philip Ahr charged on multiple counts of child pornography. (10/11/2017)
The Inquirer reports:

Philip Ahr has resigned as Radnor Township Board of Commissioners president for “personal reasons,” but will continue to serve as a commissioner, according to a resignation letter released Monday, nearly two weeks after he was charged with distributing and receiving child pornography.

Ahr, 66, of Bryn Mawr, was arrested and charged on Oct. 11 with numerous felony counts. Authorities said that since at least 2013, Ahr sent and received hundreds of images of child sexual abuse — some involving infants and toddlers, others depicting sadomasochistic abuse and abuse involving children and animals.

11. Woman claims New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo ignored her pleas to investigate one of his staffers who was allegedly sexually harassing her. (11/20/2017)
The Buffalo News reports:

What began as a “flirty” relationship between a state worker and a powerful official now threatens to ensnare the governor of New York.

Andrew M. Cuomo is named in a federal lawsuit that Lisa M. Cater, of Buffalo, filed after she heard some of Cuomo’s top lieutenants praising Sam Hoyt upon his resignation last month as a gubernatorial confidante, even as probes into the former economic development official’s alleged sexual harassment continued.

She alleges that Cuomo ignored her pleas to investigate her sexual harassment complaints against Hoyt, while Buffalo Republicans renewed their questions.

12. Democrat Rep. Calvin Smyre accused of sexual misconduct. (11/13/2017)
The Ledger-Enquirer reports:

A Fox News contributor and national Democratic party activist has alleged via social media that Columbus legislator Calvin Smyre sexually assaulted her in 1996 in Chicago.

Smyre, in a statement released on Sunday, strongly denies the accusation.

In a nine Tweet string on Friday, Jehmu Greene, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic National Committee chairperson earlier this year, accused Smyre, the dean of the Georgia General Assembly, of the crime during the national convention 21 years ago.

13. Florida Democratic Party President Sally Boynton Brown resigns amidst sexual harassment controversy. (11/20/2017)
Sunshine State News reports:

Florida Democratic Party president Sally Boynton Brown has resigned amidst a flurry of controversy when two former party staffers said she “enabled” FDP chairman Stephen Bittel’s “creepy” and “inappropriate” behavior towards female staffers.

Boynton Brown made the announcement late Monday afternoon.

“After much prayerful consideration I tendered my resignation to Chairman Bittel and Vice-Chair Mount this afternoon,” Boynton Brown wrote in an email to party leaders.

14. New Mexico Democratic legislator Sen. Michael Padilla accused of sexual harassment. (11/18/2017)
The Albuquerque Journal reports:

New Mexico state Sen. Michael Padilla says he is seeking advice from friends, family and advisers on whether to continue his campaign for lieutenant governor, amid calls for him to drop out due to decade-old sexual harassment allegations.

Padilla was accused in two federal lawsuits of harassing women while helping the city of Albuquerque overhaul a problem-plagued emergency call center in 2006. The city ended up settling “sexually hostile work environment” claims stemming from Padilla’s six-week tenure as a supervisor.

He has denied accusations that he asked women on dates despite repeated rejections and made inappropriate comments, including saying that, in his home, “Women stay home, make tortillas and have babies.”

15. Colorado Democratic Rep. Paul Rosenthal accused of sexual harassment and groping. (11/17/2017)
The Denver Post reports:

Eight months ago, toward the end of the legislative session, a Democratic policy aide reported concerns about harassment from Colorado state Rep. Paul Rosenthal to the House speaker’s office.

The issue never rose to a formal complaint, but the Denver Democratic lawmaker later apologized and received materials counseling him about the General Assembly’s workplace harassment policy.

The new details, described in interviews and confirmed by another Democratic lawmaker, raise more questions about Rosenthal’s behavior amid a legislative investigation of a separate incident, one in which he allegedly groped and made unwanted advances toward another gay man at a 2012 political event when he was a candidate.

16. Illinois Democratic Sen. Ira Silverstein accused of sexual harassment. (10/31/2017)
CBS Chicago reports:

A political activist has accused Illinois State Sen. Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago) of sexually harassing her while the two were working on legislation to help crime victims last year.

During a House committee hearing about sexual harassment by lawmakers, lobbyists, and staffers in Springfield, Mothers on a Mission to Stop Violence founder Denise Rotheimer detailed a pattern of harassment by Silverstein, accusing him of invading her privacy.

“He would Facebook me at midnight, call me at midnight,” she said. “You have no idea the torment.”

17. Missouri Democratic Rep. Josh Peters accused of sexual harassment. (01/25/2017)
The Kansas City Star reports:

A Democratic state senator from University City is accusing a legislative colleague of touching her inappropriately shortly after the annual State of the Judiciary address Tuesday morning in the Missouri House.

Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal discussed the allegations during Senate debate of a right to work bill, saying Democratic state Rep. Josh Peters grabbed her by the arms, called her “boo,” and later called her a “bitch.” The Senate speech followed a tweet earlier in the day in which she said, “Rep. Josh Peters, you do not have a right to touch me, nor call me ‘Boo.’ We don’t have a relationship where you get to put your hands on me.”

18. Nevada Democratic Sen. Mark Manendo resigns amid numerous sexual harassment allegations. (07/18/2017)
KTNV reports:

State Sen. Mark Manendo, D-Las Vegas, has resigned following an independent investigation into sexual harassment allegations.

Senate Majority Leader Aaron D. Ford ordered the investigation during the 2017 legislative session after complaints against Senator Manendo were brought to his attention on April 27. On May 1, the law firm of Van Dermyden Maddux began its investigation. The same week, Manendo denied the accusations.

The firm concluded its investigation on July 13 after completing interviews with 58 individuals, including Manendo.

19. Oklahoma Democratic lawmaker Will Fourkiller accused of sexual harassment. (01/10/2017)
NewsOK reports:

A second state representative will be investigated by the special House committee that is looking into sexual harassment complaints made against current members, the committee's chairman revealed Tuesday.

The complaint against Will Fourkiller, D-Stilwell, was made in April 2015 and involved a high school page, The Oklahoman has learned. Fourkiller, 44, confirmed Tuesday afternoon he had been told about it in 2015.

20. Oregon Democratic lawmaker David Gomberg accused of inappropriately touching women. (10/30/2017)
Oregon Lives reports:

State Rep. David Gomberg said in a newsletter released Sunday that he is sorry for offending two women who years ago accused him of violating their personal boundaries and that he is humiliated the news went public.

Gomberg told The Oregonian/OregonLive the complaints against him involved "inappropriate humor or inappropriate touching," invasion of "personal space" and hugging.

21. Former Washington Democratic lawmaker Brendan Williams accused of sexual harassment. (11/01/2017)
The Seattle Times reports:

Three women have accused a former Washington state lawmaker of sexual harassment and assault during his time in the Legislature.

Two allegations against former Democratic Rep. Brendan Williams came in Facebook posts written by women following a story Tuesday by the Northwest News Network and The News Tribune/Olympian about allegations of sexual harassment at the Capitol. A third woman said she was a House intern when Williams made an unwelcome sexual advance.

A fourth woman, Olympia City Councilmember Jessica Bateman, said Wednesday that Williams kissed her against her wishes after a political meeting in 2015, after he had left the Legislature.

22. Connecticut Democratic councilman Scott Chamberlain resigns after ‘furry’ profile revealed. (09/08/2017)
The New York Daily News reports:

Democrat Scott Chamberlain has been on the New Milford town council since his election in 2015, though will leave the position by Monday after screenshots of his sofurry.com page circulated online.

The website hosts profiles for members of the furry fandom, a group of people who create anthropomorphic animal avatars for themselves and occasionally dress up as the characters to meet in person.

Many furries also have a sexual fetish involving the costumes, though Chamberlain insisted to the Danbury News Times his own participation in the fandom had “nothing to do with sex; it’s an interest in cartoon animals.”

23. Florida Democratic Sen. Jeff Clemens resigns over sexual misconduct. (10/27/2017)
Politico reports:

The incoming Florida Senate Democratic leader abruptly resigned Friday and acknowledged he’s been in therapy after admitting to an extramarital affair with a lobbyist.

State Sen. Jeff Clemens’ decision to quit office came less than a day after Politico Florida first reported his tryst, prompting Republicans to accuse him of abusing his position of power while calls poured in from fellow Democrats who said it wasn’t an isolated incident.

As pressure mounted, Clemens took down his social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook and then called it quits at 5 p.m. Friday.

24. Ohio Democrat governor candidate Justice William O’Neill brags about his sexual history on Facebook. (11/18/2017)
The Washington Post reports:

An Ohio Supreme Court justice who recently declared his intention to run for governor faced widespread condemnation — and even some calls to resign — after he boasted about his sexual history while defending “heterosexual males.”

Justice William O’Neill posted a statement Friday morning on Facebook about what he described as the “national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions,” and in doing so disclosed details about his sexual history.

“As a candidate for Governor let me save my opponents some research time,” O’Neill wrote. “In the last fifty years I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females. It ranged from a gorgeous blonde who was my first true love and we made passionate love in the hayloft of her parents barn and ended with a drop dead gorgeous red head from Cleveland.

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