{"id":2301,"date":"2010-10-06T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2010-10-06T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:27:58","slug":"this_is_probably_an_inconvenie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"This Is Probably An Inconvenience, But I Thing It Is A Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that can end a political career very quickly is a sexual scandal–of any kind.  Republicans seem to have learned that lesson only too well.  There is an article in The Hill<\/a> today stating that “The Ohio Republican (John Boehner) privately told a handful of male Republicans to avoid getting drunk and partying with female lobbyists at after-hour parties on Capitol Hill, according to a July report in the New York Post.”<\/p>\n

According to the article:<\/p>\n

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“Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) won’t meet with women behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, fearing how staffers and aides could perceive it.<\/em><\/p>\n

“”It was Bill Graham’s policy, and if it’s good enough for Billy Graham, it’s good enough for me,” Wamp said.”
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This policy may seem a little awkward, but I am totally in favor of it.  There is nothing wrong with bringing two or three members of your staff along to any meeting with a member of the opposite sex.  To do otherwise is to invite gossip or worse.  It is a shame that we live in a world where either would be a problem, but the fact remains that we do live in that world.<\/p>\n

Billy Graham stated at one point that he would not even walk into a supposedly empty hotel room without a member of his staff.  That protected him from any appearance of scandal or wrongdoing.  That policy served him well–there was never even a hint of scandal associated with his name.  <\/p>\n

Congress might be more respected by the average American voter if its members chose to avoid even the appearance of misconduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things that can end a political career very quickly is a sexual scandal–of any kind.  Republicans seem to have learned that lesson only too well.  There is an article in The Hill today stating that “The Ohio Republican (John … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}