Richard Painter tweet re: Gillibrand

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Richard W. Painter
@RWPUSA
1% candidate @SenGillibrand just won’t stop bad mouthing @alfranken.
That is one of several reasons she’s at 1%.@realDonaldTrump is the only winner when candidates behave this way.https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/08/19/gillibrand-path-redemption-al-franken-mark-halperin/2057020001/ … via @usatoday

Gillibrand: There's a 'path for redemption' for Al Franken, Mark Halperin

[Me.]

1. FRanken & Halperin Are Not The Same

Shame on her for trying to equate the 2.

[George II]

6. She's digging a deeper hole.

[Me.]

7. So It Would Seem

however, she continues to be in deep denial

[rzemanfl]

2. K&R. n/t

[MontanaMama]

3. +1

She burned her bridge with me.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. With me, as well. Calling for his resignation without an investigation was a big mistake and

she led the charge, IMO.

[drmeow]

14. totally agree

If she wins the primary I'll hold my nose and vote for her, but she'll never get my primary vote.

[hlthe2b]

4. Some don't like/trust Painter, but he's right on this, just as many/most of us have said all along..

She's gone a long way to learn what should have been obvious. Frankly, (pardon the pun), it doesn't seem she's learned it even now.

[oasis]

5. I wonder if Joe Crowley has considered running for her senate seat?

[Skittles]

8. he is correct

I won't even bother commenting on Gillibrand except:

[madaboutharry]

10. She thought she would get women

behind her and ride the Me Too” wave.

But women are smarter than that. Sexual Harassment is nuanced and you can’t go throwing every transgression into the same pile. Equating the behavior of Halperin to what Franken was accused of is disingenuous and dishonest.

Sen. Gillibrand should be thinking about redemption. For herself.

[spooky3]

11. Researchers call this "escalation of commitment to a bad decision."

It just cements in my mind how weak her decision-making can be. I'll vote for her if she is the nominee, but I think the odds of that are very small.

[Polly Hennessey]

12. I'll be glad when she sinks/slinks back

into her Senate seat. She did great harm to the Democratic Party. No doubt in my mind she convinced Senator Schumer to ask for Al’s resignation. It is comforting to hope that she will wield less influence when she returns to her day job.

[Merlot]

20. I think she was doing Schemer's dirty work for him

Schumer didn't like Franken (from what I've read), so I can easily imagine that instead of her convincing Schumer, he worked with her on this.

Either way, the idea that women would be single issue votes on this is insulting to women. It's like when republicans thought having a woman on their presidential ticket would get woman's votes irregardless of the woman they chose.

Irony: spell check just replaced "Schumer" with "Schemer"

[Rebl2]

13. Please just go

away Gillibrand

[Merlot]

15. Even without the Al Frankin "thing" I think she'd be at 1%

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She comes off as rather oportunistic, and unqualified. Was not at all impressed with her at the debates.

[Eyeball_Kid]

17. She strikes me as passionless and entitled. n/t

[Eyeball_Kid]

16. So, Franken needs "to be redeemed".

How’s that, Ms. Kirsten? Please be specific. Tell us EXACTLY what Franken did, and the context in which he did it, that earns him the disgrace that you helped promulgate. Please, no convenient deletions or oversights. Get to it , Ms. Kirsten. And while you’re at it, tell us what exactly qualifies you as an agent of redemption, and why your approval matters.

[Princetonian]

19. +1000

[Boomer]

18. Not much interested in what she has to say. n/t