Flores: Biden Encounter Was A Personal Space Issue, Not Sexual Harassment

[babylonsister]

Whaaa! She needs attention!!

Flores: Biden Encounter Was A Personal Space Issue, Not Sexual Harassment
By Nicole Lafond
April 1, 2019 7:53 am


Former Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Nevada Lucy Flores told MSNBC on Sunday that while she felt violated by an unexpected kiss from former Vice President Joe Biden, she considered the incident to be a personal space issue and not sexual harassment or assault.

“For the record, I don’t believe that it was a bad intention. I’m not in any way suggesting that I felt sexually assaulted or sexually harassed. I felt invaded. I felt there was a violation of my personal space,” she said. “And it’s been dismissed as if it’s just Biden being Biden. Boys will be boys. No big deal. It is a big deal.”

Flores told Politico that she’s seen plenty of pictures and videos of Biden doing to women what he had done to her, calling it “triggering.”

“When I started to see pictures of him behaving in the same way he did with me and with other women, it was very triggering,” she said. “I felt so much empathy for them. I knew what they were going through. I had been in their shoes.”

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[Turbineguy]

1. Well, that's

a disappointment. For some.

[we can do it]

2. STFU Flores, you're full of shit.

[lark]

3. BS, this is a Bernie issue.

Joe has the temerity to be beating her chosen pol so she's trying to take him down - period the end.

[we can do it]

8. Too much BS

[femmedem]

4. Glad she recognizes the difference.

And glad she recognizes, at least, that Biden doesn't have any creepy intent.

Personal space is a cultural and personal issue, not anything that speaks to a person's values, integrity or fitness for office.

[Cha]

5. Yeah, you can tell how she valued her "personal space"..

Link to tweet

Vice President Joe Biden takes a selfie with Nevada Lt. Governor Democratic candidate Lucy Flores during a rally in support of Nevada Democrats at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Joint UA Local 525 in Las Vegas Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun, L.E. Baskow) (Photo: L.E. Baskow, AP)

[Kahuna7]

15. It was ok when she did it to Joe. The only picture from the event showing

"inappropriate" touching is her pressed up against Joe. Go figure.

[emulatorloo]

6. I am glad she clarified. Hopefully the wild baseless claims that Biden is sexual assaulter will

stop now

[we can do it]

9. She has no credibility. Her BS is showing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Cynrancour/status/1112448455664959493

[emulatorloo]

12. Thanks for the link. A picture is worth a thousand words

[we can do it]

17. At least! You're welcome.

[MineralMan]

7. Enough! Not sexual harassment, in her own mind? Then let it go.

Flores apparently prefers a different candidate. This kind of nonsense has nothing to do with someone's fitness to be President. So, it shouldn't be brought forward as an issue.

Already, we're fighting among ourselves. That crap cost us the 2016 election. Let's stop cutting our own throats, shall we?

No sexual harassment? Then, it's not an issue, for goodness' sake. Leave it.

[Skidmore]

11. +1 nt

[BeyondGeography]

10. Wah

[betsuni]

13. Al Franken:

"... when I take pictures with families, I often playfully put two kids in headlocks and squeeze their heads together. It always gets a laugh. I did it once to the two young sons of Chris Murphy, a young Democratic star who represents Connecticut in the Senate and serves as a voice of conscience on both gun violence and foreign policy. Watching me squeeze his boys' heads together, Chris said, 'That's the kind of thing that would bring joy to thousands of families, and one day it ends your career.'"

[katmondoo]

14. I have always known this was BS from the very beginning

[LongtimeAZDem]

16. And that rates going on multiple networks and trashing the man?

I don't believe her. Period.

I think she invented the encounter based on her inaccurate interpretation of the Stephanie Carter photo, and figured if she "me too'd" it, others would pile on.

[lostnfound]

19. Because she has so much "empathy". None for the guy who lacked a "bad intention"

He was VP. We know all we need to know about him. Filling up the airwaves with the crap is BS. CNN and MSNBC are making me sick everytime they fall for this obvious stunt.

[hlthe2b]

18. She has lost ALL credibility with me ... as have all

Who continue to push her now clear smear campaign.

[samnsara]

20. joe can hug me anytime he wants!! so can al!

[vsrazdem]

21. I don't so much mind the hug, but the smelling hair and kissing the head is a little much.

[LongtimeAZDem]

22. True, if you believe that actually happened. I don't.

[jcgoldie]

23. If the "victim" herself says it was not sexual harassment but a "personal space" violation...

...then aren't we done with this?

[Squinch]

24. She has said that from the beginning. And she is right. Unfortunately

that didn't stop a whole lotta DUers from reacting to her report as if they were a bunch of rabid republicans out for blood.

This has been a disgusting display of hypocrisy. DUer Codeine was right: no one here had any problem seeing what was wrong with Bush rubbing Merkel's shoulders. But when Biden did that and lots more, people here savaged the person on the receiving end of it.

No, what Biden did was not the end of the world. It should not disqualify him. It WAS inappropriate and grossly entitled. Whether you like the guy who did it (which I do) or not. And the person who reported it was not the one in the wrong.