Sexist double standards, Republican edition
by David Atkins
Minnesota Republican Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch has resigned over allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate:
Minnesota’s Republican Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch abruptly resigned from her leadership post this week, and there are now allegations that she had an “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate staffer.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Koch’s fellow Republicans confronted her about the alleged relationship. When Koch was confronted, she neither confirmed nor denied the relationship. “I think I need to consider resigning,” she said, according to the paper.
“There is no doubt that a manager cannot have such a relationship with someone they oversee, whose budget they oversee,” interim Senate Majority Leader Geoff Michel (R) said at a news conference Friday. “It’s pretty clear. That kind of relationship is inappropriate, it raises a conflict of interest and it creates … an unstable, unsustainable work environment for our staff.”
Rumors are swirling, as one could expect, but no one is saying who the staffer is. Koch’s communications director, Michael Brodkorb, no longer works for the Senate. The news was revealed Friday evening, but local media haven’t locked down whether he was dismissed or resigned. There is no confirmed connection between Koch’s leadership resignation and the news that Brodkorb is out.
Of course, when the House Majority Leader has a relationship with Congressional staffer, then leaves his cancer-stricken wife to marry her, then he’s a staunch defender of conservative values deserving the Presidency of the United States.
Something tells me that if Newt Gingrich had been born with a vagina and abandoned her cancer-stricken husband for a male Congressional staffer while maintaining credit accounts at Tiffany’s, she’d have been hounded out of office for the rest of her life.
The Republican Party: standing up for freedom everywhere, as long as you have the right equipment down there.
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