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As a correction, it does appear Joe Miller ran for office in 2016, but as a candidate for the libertarian party. He got 29 percent in the Senate election.
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I don't think they intended to make it public.
Feinstein seemed to be sitting on it because the allegation by itself shouldn't be enough to change anything (it's impossible to prove a negative regarding something that happened 35 years ago when the currently 50-something nominee for the court was in high school) and because the one source doesn't want to go public with it. Others seemed to force her hand.
It probably would have been better to release the information earlier, so it wouldn't seem like an 11th hour smear (which it isn't from Feinstein or from the accuser, but it can be from anyone pushing for the release now), and so that there would be more time with anyone else who had an unpleasant experience with Kavanaugh to come forward (after the initial reports on Franken and Moore, other women came forward.)
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
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Virginia Hume, a signatory of the letter, explains how it came about. She heard about it from a friend.
The letter appears to have been organized by former clerks of Kavanaugh's, rather than Grassley.The letter was conceived and drafted by friends of Brett’s, and it was drafted after allegations came out on Thursday. I learned about the letter from a friend and fellow signatory. Others learned about it the same way. Those surprised at the speed with which it came together should see it as yet another testament to Brett’s excellent reputation.
To those who responded to my tweet saying “I knew Brett in high school” by asking if I had gender reassignment surgery: I went to an all-girls school in Bethesda. He went to an all-boys school in Bethesda. We were permitted upon occasion to speak to people of the opposite sex.
To those hearing the thwap thwap thwap of black helicopters because my father is a journalist or because I worked in politics: In a group of 65 graduates of D.C. area schools, it would be odd not to find someone related to or working as a journalist or politician. It is entirely unremarkable. This is a company town. (That said, it might explain why people happened to see my tweets on the subject).
One argument on the speed of the letter is that this is how that culture (insular Washington upper class) operates. They can circle the wagons very quickly.group of women who have known Brett Kavanaugh since his high school days decided Thursday to put together the letter of support for him — a day after rumors of allegations against him first became public — one of the organizers of the letter told BuzzFeed News.
“We need to rally around Brett,” Meghan McCaleb, one of the signatories, said she told people of the effort to support President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
In an interview Friday, McCaleb said the letter-writing campaign began after her husband, Scott McCaleb, got a call from a reporter following initial reporting by the Intercept and BuzzFeed News about a secret letter containing an allegation against Kavanaugh.
Travis Lenkner, a former Kavanaugh clerk who has been helping support the judge during the confirmation process, confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the letter was started by a group of women who knew Kavanaugh in high school and then approached his team about it. Two other women who signed the letter also said they got it from friends.
On Friday morning, the New Yorker reported more details of the claims against Kavanaugh — alleging that he held down a woman and attempted to force himself on her at a party while they were both in high school.
McCaleb, who acknowledged that she is a close friend of Kavanaugh’s to this day and attended multiple days of his confirmation hearing, said the allegation is “really out of left field” and is “nothing like the Brett that we know. At all.”
When the initial reporting came out, she said, a “group effort” began to put together a letter supporting Kavanaugh and attesting that, “For the entire time we have known Brett Kavanaugh, he has behaved honorably and treated women with respect.”
Another of the signatories, reached by BuzzFeed News, said she was contacted Thursday by McCaleb about the possibility of signing on to a letter attesting to Kavanaugh’s character. Megan Williams told BuzzFeed News that she was not aware of specific allegations against Kavanaugh when she signed the letter, but said, “I can’t even tell you how out of character” that would be and made clear that she stood behind the letter. “The guy’s a saint.”
A third woman who signed the letter, Renate Dolphin, told BuzzFeed News she had received the letter Thursday night “from a friend of ours from high school years” and then hung up.
The letter in support of Kavanaugh, signed by 65 women, was released by Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley on Friday, shortly after the New Yorker story published. Grassley’s office had stated that he was not involved in its creation. “Chairman Grassley’s staff was not responsible for putting the letter together,” said Garrett Ventry, a communications adviser to the Senate Judiciary Committee. “We received it this morning.” BuzzFeed News made attempts on Friday to reach women who signed the letter.
McCaleb said the process of gathering the signatures was a quick one, and that women who had attended five different girls high schools in the area signed on to it. Kavanaugh attended an all-boys high school in Bethesda, Maryland.
McCaleb said that she then contacted Lenkner, who had helped her get access to Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing last week, on figuring out how to submit the letter. For a Supreme Court nomination, those working with the nominee usually reach out to people who could speak on behalf of the person from different time periods in their life before the confirmation hearing.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
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It's a specific circumstance involving the culture that went to and sent their kids to those private schools in DC. Gorsuch went to the same high school, but there wasn't any allegation against him.
As a comparison, Al Franken's private school was in Minnesota. Granted, the allegations weren't about his behavior there, and he did quickly get letters from female staff members and female coworkers at SNL.
http://time.com/5030073/al-franken-f...affers-defend/
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.3648564
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
The only mention of time in those links was about accusations from 'last week' and a bit more than half the number of signatories at best, this beats that by a significant portion in both speed and number. And considering how connected and involved the Hollywood culture is there's no significant difference IMO to the DC Private School culture you mention. This is a major outlier Mets and you know it, so why are you acting like this is the norm?
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I'm not acting like it's the norm. I've given one reason it's such an outlier. Another factor is that with major nominations (and a spot on the Supreme Court is second only to one on a presidential ticket) they already had a rolodex of character witnesses ready, which made getting some signatures relatively easy. It could also be that earlier accusations against other powerful men (some accurate, some BS) have provided ideas on how to respond to it now.
There has been some speculation about how Grassley got the list. I've sourced comments by a woman who signed the letter, and an article from a reputable news source that isn't right-leaning.
It's possible that they're all lying or misled. We'll know soon enough. I'm reasonably careful in what I say, so I shouldn't be embarrassed should multiple women come forward in the next few days to accuse Kavanaugh of actions so terrible that his current position as Appeals Court judge will be rightfully threatened. It could also be some weird mix (No one else comes forward against Kavanaugh but it does turn out that Grassley came up with the list months ago.) However, it is also possible that his critics will turn out to be wrong in ways that reflect poorly on them and their understanding of the world.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
There is a thread here where the validity of news sites is rated and Buzzfeed comes in near the bottom, so I wouldn't classify it as 'reputable' and I already countered your original assertion that it's just a thing about the Washington Elite. And considering the current almost religious objection to the Truth those on the right currently have i'm not about to accept this happening in a single day based on the word of one of the signatories. Not to mention the logistics of getting so many actual signatures in time to get it delivered should they all be actual signatures.
Someone leaked that the story was coming up or they knew it was coming and prepared this ahead of time, and no one has tried to put a time frame to how long ago it was so far so we'll see if it's Months as you say (I assume sarcastically).
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