# CNN , Wash post looking into 20-30 more guys for sex harrasment **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 7, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844 "2017-12-07T22:33:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/1 "2017-12-07T22:33:29Z")
Based on a tweet from this guy who is a Dem [https://twitter.com/mikehtrujillo](https://twitter.com/mikehtrujillo) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/2 "2017-12-07T22:34:33Z")
Here is the tweet [https://twitter.com/mikehtrujillo/status/938815136571129856](https://twitter.com/mikehtrujillo/status/938815136571129856) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/3 "2017-12-07T23:04:32Z")
I wish I could say that the number surprises me, but it doesn’t. #sad. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/4 "2017-12-07T23:13:18Z")
Just the beginning, I suspect. Not just more in office, but in surrounding politics – talking heads, radio, journalists, party insiders, etc. And good. This shit must come out and heads should roll. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/5 "2017-12-07T23:16:50Z")
Republican Congressman Trent Franks just abruptly resigned. > **[Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks to resign following sexual harassment claim |...](https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/politics/trent-franks-resigns/index.html)** > > Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks announced in a statement Thursday night he will resign from Congress at the end of January, after the House Ethics Committee said it would investigate allegations against him of sexual harassment. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/6 "2017-12-07T23:22:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republican Congressman Trent Franks just abruptly resigned. > [http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/politics/trent-franks-resigns/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/politics/trent-franks-resigns/index.html) Someone should start [a thread in this forum.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844092)😉 ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/7 "2017-12-07T23:23:53Z")
Please, please PLEASE let it be Sean Hannity… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/8 "2017-12-07T23:27:30Z")
Now, Universe, I know I haven’t been a very good pantheist, but if you would just give me this \*one \*sign… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/9 "2017-12-07T23:32:47Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > Please, please PLEASE let it be Sean Hannity… Pence. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/10 "2017-12-07T23:36:57Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Pence. Mommy makes sure that doesn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/11 "2017-12-07T23:39:38Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Someone should start [a thread in this forum.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844092)😉 Maybe not a good idea to have separate threads for each instance. Might be a bunch. Does anyone know how soon you can hear the first rumble of an avalanche, and when you’re buried under fifty feet of snow? Also, bets. I’m taking the “over” at more than thirty, and the partisan bet is 70% Republican. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/12 "2017-12-07T23:45:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Also, bets. I’m taking the “over” at more than thirty, Thirty would be less than 10% of the critters, and still less than 10% even if we count only the men, so I would not take the under bet on that. > [@](#): > > and the partisan bet is 70% Republican. I’m taking the gender bet at 90% male. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/13 "2017-12-07T23:47:17Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Mommy makes sure that doesn’t happen. THERE’S an image I didn’t need. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/14 "2017-12-07T23:51:19Z")
He means Pence’s _wife_, you perv! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/15 "2017-12-07T23:56:00Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > He means Pence’s _wife_, you perv! Guess what Pence calls his wife? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/16 "2017-12-08T00:00:54Z")
Bae? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/17 "2017-12-08T00:09:14Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Guess what Pence calls his wife? I’m guessing not “you perv.” ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/18 "2017-12-08T01:03:08Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Maybe not a good idea to have separate threads for each instance. Might be a bunch. Does anyone know how soon you can hear the first rumble of an avalanche, and when you’re buried under fifty feet of snow? [There is an omnibus thread in the Pit.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843808) > [@](#): > > Also, bets. I’m taking the “over” at more than thirty, and the partisan bet is 70% Republican. 30 seems ridiculously low. Just sitting politicians at the national level or are we including others? I’d still go 50 or higher. 60% Republican. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/19 "2017-12-08T01:05:51Z")
This is just one story (or group of stories) – they might have 30 now and then they’re still digging into another 50 or more. Journalists actually investigate these – they don’t report any random accusation without checking the facts. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844/20 "2017-12-08T01:24:41Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Journalists actually investigate these – they don’t report any random accusation without checking the facts. Who told you that? 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-wash-post-looking-into-20-30-more-guys-for-sex-harrasment/803844.md?page=2)