A lawmaker was caught on tape dumping water into her colleague’s bag. He says it’s part of a yearslong pattern of bullying.
A lawmaker was caught on tape dumping water into her colleague’s bag. He says it’s part of a yearslong pattern of bullying.
Rep. Jim Carroll, D-Bennington, said his district-mate, Rep. Mary Morrissey, R-Bennington, has taunted him for years with verbal harassment.
“Quite honestly, I don’t know why I did it,” Morrissey continued. “I was not meaning to hurt him. It is something very out of character for me, and I am truly ashamed.”
But in an extensive interview with VTDigger Tuesday afternoon, Carroll rejected Morrissey’s argument that the episodes were “out of character.”
One or two times, I’d say, ‘Well, it’s just a joke,’” Carroll said. “But no, this went on unabated from January until May, when she got caught.”
So out of character for her that she's been doing it daily for months...
And the harassment goes back to 2019.
Being held accountable is what's out of character for her, and she probably is ashamed she got caught. But she's going to do it again.
The ghost inside targets another Republican lawmaker, this time causing them to harass their peers.
I really wish journalists would stop accepting that excuse. Every time a famous person does something shitty their apology always excuses their own behavior by saying something along the lines of "yeah but that's not who I am, that wasn't me. I did it but I'm a better person than that."
Fucking press them on that. "It's not you but you did it. So clearly it is you."
I mean, it's an elderly person acting strangely and aggressively, not really remembering it, and even when confronted with video evidence claiming that's not how they act...
They should be straight up asking if she's going to seek medical evaluation as she's showing signs of dementia.
We need to stop handling this shit with kid gloves.
The last people to realize they're experiencing signs of dementia, are the people experiencing signs of dementia.
Maybe they were always horrible people and were just always holding it in. But loosing that ability to hold it in is still a sign of normal age related mental decline.
Due to very strong ethical rules, journalists are not allowed to make conclusions on anything said when in "reporting" mode, only when they are in "editorial" or "opinion"mode, which has to specifically be mentioned. It's why OpEds are strictly labeled. Otherwise, they have to report on what has been said by the parties being reported on.
“Quite honestly, I don’t know why I did it,” Morrissey continued. “I was not meaning to hurt him. It is something very out of character for me, and I am truly ashamed.”
Never ceases to amaze me how this country has children as elected officials.
very out of character for me
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part of a years long pattern
That's not how that works, lady.
It's out of character for her to get caught.
You don't understand, deep down she's a good person. All the shitty things she does day to day are just out of character
“… I don’t know why I did it.” says the person who has been doing it for years.
I manage a large team of tech employees. I also have two teams of student employees below me. The students are the mature ones in the bunch, and the employees require constant handholding and places to dump emotions. From experience, older generations didn't "grow up" in the same way as the younger ones, and that's because their realities are vastly different. 50 years ago, it was much easier to get through life without really growing up--now you have to grow up or perish.
Never ceases to amaze me how this country has children as elected officials.
Could we please please please stop talking as if children are the worst? Everytime somebody misbehaves, there's someone who calls it "childish" instead of "stupid" or "wrong".
I knew it was a Republican before even opening the article.
Thanks for confirming. I was only 99% sure.
You wouldn’t have to go far or work hard to guess what party the victim was from, either.
Oh, look, it’s a republicunt.
Of course it's a Republican engaging in petulant behavior. Without fail.
Because when he retaliates, she'd call him 'mean' and claim victim.
"Most adults are all the mean, stupid, annoying kids you know, just older... and now in charge!" - Big D and the Kids Table
“Quite honestly, I don’t know why I did it,” Morrissey continued. “I was not meaning to hurt him. It is something very out of character for me, and I am truly ashamed.”
Oh bullshit, we all know why you did it, it's because you're a Republican showing your Republican values and morals you asshole.
“Her favorite was, she’d be in proximity to me — either near the elevator, or in the lunch line, or at one of the ice cream socials — and she’d say, ‘What is that smell?’ and she’d recoil from me,” Carroll said. “She would say it in front of other legislators, and it was humiliating.”
I love this move. Should I stop doing it to people?
This is childish as fuck and so easily rebuked.
Not so easy to rebuke if they really smell bad
My 4 year old loves making this joke
we used to do this to my mom in elevators. "Ah jeeze mom what did you eat?!"
poor woman was a saint, she should have tossed us into the river and never looked back.
I thought it was generally known that who smelt it dealt it.
You do this to people? Holy shit lol. Humanity is so fucking rude and thinks it self righteous.
This is gonna backfire as soon as someone says "it's you, I don't smell anything"
Why didn’t he just walk into her office and take a nice big dump on her desk?
I don't know why I did it!
Ok so you're just a fucking asshole.
Ggez
A yearslong is a long slong. Here I thought it was years-long from the context.
Did you mean a long slog, or a long schlong?
Not judging, but there's a big difference!