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“There’s not the sense of trying to defend these guys in the same way,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for Women and American Politics at Rutgers University. “I don’t know if all of these men really get it or if now at least they know they’d better get it.”
Denise Rotheimer said “because the media grabbed onto this? Because now it’s public? Because there’s nothing different from my complaint in November last year to my testimony this year.”
She was referring to what she was going through and wondered why now? Rotheimer asked “Now they’re doing this because — why?”
Kent Redfield is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He said “this is a real issue and you want to do the right thing. But it is also a potentially very damning political issue when the Democrats have been in charge.”
“I’m not going to condone or justify inappropriate behavior between membership and staff,” said Representative Robert Benvenuti.
“There is enough distrust and thoughts of hypocrisy about people in government,” Mr. Benvenuti said. “We’ve got to do our best in gaining some trust back.”
Lawmakers said the only way to solve the problems about sexual misconduct was by resignation. Mr. Hoover and anyone else involved should step down.
