{"id":139248,"date":"2017-12-14T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=139248"},"modified":"2017-12-14T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T03:00:34","slug":"texas-official-out-after-post-disparaging-pathetic-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/14\/texas-official-out-after-post-disparaging-pathetic-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas official out after post disparaging ‘pathetic’ women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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51st Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton (Photo By Alice Linahan Voices Empower – Sen. Ken Paxton announces run for Attorney General, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

AUSTIN, Texas — A top aide to Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton resigned Thursday after reports surfaced of him disparaging the stories of sexually harassed women as \u201cpathetic\u201d on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Paxton spokesman Mark Rylander said views expressed by associate deputy attorney general Andrew Leonie on social media \u201cdo not reflect our values.\u201d The announcement came hours after The Dallas Morning News reported comments posted on Leonie’s page about sexual harassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAren’t you also tired of all the pathetic ‘me too’ victim claims? If every woman is a ‘victim’, so is every man. If everyone is a victim, no one is. Victim means nothing anymore,\u201d read the Facebook post published early Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Leonie didn’t immediately respond to messages for comment through social media.<\/p>\n

The post disappeared from his public Facebook page after his resignation was announced.<\/p>\n

His resignation came on the same day the Texas Senate began publicly revising its own sexual harassment policies criticized as outdated and insufficient. Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, who is spearheading the revisions as chairwoman of the Senate Administration Committee, said even she might be hesitant to come forward under the current framework.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s ambiguous enough that I would be hesitant to come forth with a complaint,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Rylander said the attorney general’s office is committed to a workplace \u201cfree from discrimination and harassment.\u201d Paxton’s wife, Angela Paxton, is running as a Republican for the state Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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