In my continuing effort to be more bipartisan, I want to highlight a vote the House of Representatives took last week to make the records of sexual assault and harassment by members of Congress open and transparent to the public. After all, we the taxpayers are paying settlements to cover up for these miscreants.
The vote was 357 against releasing the information and 65 for releasing it: 38 Republicans voted for releasing the information and 27 Democrats did the same. So it appears that secrecy and cover-up on the issue of assault and harassment is an entirely bipartisan issue. Shame on those 357!
Locally, our own Rep. George Whitesides voted against releasing the information. Since he’s a freshman and probably innocent of any misdeeds I’m going to assume he voted the way he did to cover up for the more powerful in Congress. Real profile in courage there, George!
Brian Richards
Stevenson Ranch
