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In reply to the discussion: Someone please explain to me how boinking a subordinate invalids an investigation [View all]
Bayard
(27,393 posts)4. Because rethuglicans have to be in everybody's bedrooms.....
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Someone please explain to me how boinking a subordinate invalids an investigation [View all]
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
OP
Where is the bias of having an affair? Is it because Willis is a woman and only men can have them?
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
#7
The claim seems to be that DA Willis hired this subordinate so that she could benefit from his earnings
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2024
#54
ok..thanks for posting....at least it would seem they are saying the affair started after she hired him
prodigitalson
Feb 2024
#62
The problem is, the Trump defendants KNOW that they are guilty as hell,
DemocraticPatriot
Feb 2024
#63
Because court shit isn't about truth, it is about rule following and appearances
RockRaven
Feb 2024
#3
If consensual, no one's fucking business except the manager and the server.
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
#12
Just because they banned it at yours doesn't mean every owner is a micromanaging asshole
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
#21
I agree with the poster who mentioned an "independent contractor" type relationship
ecstatic
Feb 2024
#25
Because lots of Americas are Puritan religious bigots, and because it benefits Trump.
DJ Synikus Makisimus
Feb 2024
#14
True. . .but I don't care if he was the janitor. . .it doesn't change the facts of the RICO TRIAL!
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
#23
and it's a shame that if something organic develops, people need to have it put under a microscope
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
#22
I'm glad this standard didn't exist with JFK. It was Republicans in the 1970s that made this crap
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
#37
Dole did it in the 1970s against someone he was going to lose to. He found an extra-marital affair
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
#40
I worked at a paper company and the phone company (1979-1981) Dating among co-workers was common place
LeftInTX
Feb 2024
#47
Or for government officials to have a romantic relationship with a vendor they hired getting paid with public funds.
MichMan
Feb 2024
#32
In Texas DA's are considered to be State Officials. Although they serve the county.
LeftInTX
Feb 2024
#49
I don't think it's the boinking. There's an affidavit she submitted re: timing of events.
CincyDem
Feb 2024
#52
It doesn't invalidate anything, but this distraction -- and poor judgement -- has surely delayed the trial.
Silent Type
Feb 2024
#55
If you can't dazzle then with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. If you can't baffle them with bullshit,
AZLD4Candidate
Feb 2024
#61
My dentist had an affair with his receptionist, but that didn't mean my fillings were compromised.
Midnight Writer
Feb 2024
#58