She Ruined Our Lives: Women Mistakenly Outed As Sexual Assault Survivors By Heitkamp Could Slap Her With Lawsuit
Matt Vespa| @mvespa1 |Posted: Oct 17, 2018 1:25 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...lt-survivors-by-heitkamp-without-per-n2529257
Cortney touched upon this yesterday. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), who is a vulnerable red state Democrat running for re-election, made what some are calling a “category five blunder” by releasing an open letter that mistakenly identified survivors of sexual assault without their consent or knowledge.
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Heitkamp’s Republican challenger, is ahead in the polls by nearly double-digits. As Cortney wrote, he spoke out against what he saw as the excesses and overreach of the Me Too movement we’re experiencing in this country, along with the attacks against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose confirmation battle was one of the most vicious in recent memory. In that fight, three unsubstantiated allegations of sexual misconduct were lobbed against him. It came off as more of a political hit job by Democrats, the GOP held firm, though it took some time for them to regain the upper hand, and Kavanaugh was confirmed. This is what teed up the Heitkamp debacle:
Of course, the Heitkamp campaign issued an apology, but the damage has been done. Now, some of the women are seeking a lawyer and could slap Heitkamp with a lawsuit. Rob Port of Say Anything, a North Dakota-based blog, said there are 22 women in the group that's considering taking legal action [emphasis mine]:
The Elizabeth Warren campaign, which is going to coast to re-election this year, decided to nuke the Democratic narrative in the closing days of the 2018 cycle by releasing the results of a DNA test that showed Warren wasn’t Native American. Okay—she’s…1/1024th Native American. It’s a joke. It’s pissed off the Cherokee Nation like no other for making their racial identity, and how one gets there, into a circus. This is all laying the groundwork for her possible 2020 bid, clearing the air of the allegation that she perpetuated a racial hoax, claiming she was part Cherokee, for personal gain; it appears as if she did. It was a wholly unforced error on the part of the Warren crew to drop this. That campaign might have made the epic blunder of the 2018 midterms until the Heitkamp crew came along and said, “hold my beer.”
Matt Vespa| @mvespa1 |Posted: Oct 17, 2018 1:25 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...lt-survivors-by-heitkamp-without-per-n2529257
Cortney touched upon this yesterday. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), who is a vulnerable red state Democrat running for re-election, made what some are calling a “category five blunder” by releasing an open letter that mistakenly identified survivors of sexual assault without their consent or knowledge.
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Heitkamp’s Republican challenger, is ahead in the polls by nearly double-digits. As Cortney wrote, he spoke out against what he saw as the excesses and overreach of the Me Too movement we’re experiencing in this country, along with the attacks against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose confirmation battle was one of the most vicious in recent memory. In that fight, three unsubstantiated allegations of sexual misconduct were lobbed against him. It came off as more of a political hit job by Democrats, the GOP held firm, though it took some time for them to regain the upper hand, and Kavanaugh was confirmed. This is what teed up the Heitkamp debacle:
Of course, the Heitkamp campaign issued an apology, but the damage has been done. Now, some of the women are seeking a lawyer and could slap Heitkamp with a lawsuit. Rob Port of Say Anything, a North Dakota-based blog, said there are 22 women in the group that's considering taking legal action [emphasis mine]:
The Elizabeth Warren campaign, which is going to coast to re-election this year, decided to nuke the Democratic narrative in the closing days of the 2018 cycle by releasing the results of a DNA test that showed Warren wasn’t Native American. Okay—she’s…1/1024th Native American. It’s a joke. It’s pissed off the Cherokee Nation like no other for making their racial identity, and how one gets there, into a circus. This is all laying the groundwork for her possible 2020 bid, clearing the air of the allegation that she perpetuated a racial hoax, claiming she was part Cherokee, for personal gain; it appears as if she did. It was a wholly unforced error on the part of the Warren crew to drop this. That campaign might have made the epic blunder of the 2018 midterms until the Heitkamp crew came along and said, “hold my beer.”