I mean ... during the Kavanaugh hearings, they were constantly screaming that every woman has to be believed, unquestioningly.
Oh my: Jackson Lee fired staffer in retaliation to lawsuit against CBCF over alleged rape?
http://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/17/oh-jackson-lee-fired-staffer-retaliation-lawsuit-cbcf-alleged-rape/
Did Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee fire a staffer for suing the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation over an alleged rape? A new lawsuit takes aim at the Texas Democrat for retaliation in an attempt to quash the plaintiff's attempts to seek justice through the civil courts. Buzzfeed picked up on the filing last night after it first appeared on the US district court docket in DC yesterday afternoon:
A former staffer for Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee claims in a new lawsuit that the lawmaker retaliated against her and fired her because she was planning to pursue legal action over an alleged rape by a former employee of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
The woman, identified in court papers by the pseudonym Jane Doe, alleges she was raped in October 2015, when she was a 19-year-old intern for the CBCF, by the foundation's intern coordinator at the time, Damien Jones. The woman said she reported the alleged rape to police and told several people, including Rep. Terri Sewell, her former boss and a distant relative of her mother's, but did not pursue legal action at the time.
Several years later, when Jane Doe was working for Jackson Lee, the woman decided she did want to pursue legal action, and told Jackson Lee's chief of staff Glenn Rushing in early March 2018. The woman alleges that she asked to speak with Jackson Lee about it, but a meeting never happened, and several weeks later she was fired. Jackson Lee is chair of the board for the CBCF.
To make this even more interesting, the man named in the allegation still works in Democratic electoral circles. Jones most recently worked on Robert "Beto" O'Rourke's senate campaign in Texas. The O'Rourke organization told Buzzfeed that they hadn't heard anything about this before getting their call, but that the team "no longer has a relationship with Damien Jones." ...
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