Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over months
Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over months
Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll
A Vermont lawmaker was compelled to apologize publicly after being caught on video pouring water into her colleague’s work bag multiple times across several months.
The bizarre behavior is allegedly a part of a campaign of harassment that one legislator aimed at another who represents the same district in the Green Mountain state, independent outlet Seven Days first reported.
The Republican representative, Mary Morrissey, 67, confessed to dumping water in the bag of the Democratic legislator Jim Carroll, 62. She later apologized during a Vermont state house session on Monday, Boston.com reported.
“I am truly ashamed of my actions,” Morrissey said.
Morrissey did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.
As for whether he forgives Morrissey, Carroll said: “I guess I would have to say yes in the spirit of forgiveness, reluctantly. But if I had to be a smartass, I’d say her apology holds about as much water as my canvas bag.”
Fantastic.
I'm glad he had to be a smartass. Because Morrissey was certainly being a dumbass.
That's so weird because a quote from WaPo had him saying he could hear the sincerity in her apology.
Didn't WaPo recently get bought out? Or was that another paper I'm thinking of?
Edit: Nope, just reorganized, it seems.
If you are only ashamed of your actions after you were caught, you are not ashamed of your actions. Grade A trashy behaviour that has no place in the world.
And especially no place in the halls of governance.
America elects some of the wierdest politicians.
Australian politicians sniff the chairs of their female colleagues, and eat raw onions like apples. All politicians are just disguised reptilian barely holding it together.
I think one of my favourite comments at that time was that chowing down on a raw onion was an apt analogy for the Abbott government
and eat raw onions like apples.
My father's mother could do that and we would all chant "do it do it". Was so cool to watch.
Nah, if you were ashamed of the shit you wouldn't have done the shit. What you are is embarrassed to have been caught.
embarrassed to have been caught.
Exactly.
They're always so very sorry after they get caught.
She should be ejected from the chamber(s) for a while in my opinion, and forced to "telecommute" her votes and participation in, if they even choose to let her participate at all in the lawmaking, for the rest of her term.
There's no reason that behavior should be excusable.
“I am truly ashamed of my actions,” Morrissey said.
You're a Republian, lady. You're not supposed to say you're ashamed. They're going to kick you to the curb now.
That was after she tried to claim she ‘flicked’ water on his bag because a bug was on it. She tried lying, no one bought it.
Did she learn nothing from Trump? You just keep repeating the lie until people get tired of correcting it.
She means the Republican, "sorry" - she is sorry she got caught.
Morrissey’s face was not captured in the video, but fellow lawmakers were able to identify her by her gray hair.
Lol, fucking roasted.
Mary Morrissey is a psychotic bully.
Apologize publicly?
Fuck that
He should get to pour any liquid he wants into any bag or possession of hers that he wants to, an equal number of times, and she can't say anything about it and it'll all be on video and go up on social media.
And if she doesn't want that, let her try to explain why not, and put that on social media. You could try to time it right, so that right as she's getting kind of emotional about how she's so sick of all this bitterness in politics and what happened to forgive and live and let live, is right when someone's sneaking up behind her and pouring a pint of lemonade into her purse or something.
Getting the first N of the DENNIS system - Nurture dependence, all wrong lol
I'd rather deal with a confrontational Karen who you at least know is batshit crazy than a passive aggressive secret psycho Karen who does weird shit like this. At least she didn't try to poison him or something.
That picture of Mary Morrissey looks like it was taken decades ago.
It was. She's 13 terms in, so I'm guessing it was taken when she was first elected, based on styling and photo quality. She have been in her early 40s, which seems about right.
Yeah - the image quality was what got my attention first. It looks like a scan of an old photo. It’s especially obvious when right next to a more recent image.
I thought the same thing, it said she was 67
So first, according to this article, it was water in the bag. Then it was a backpack, then it was a tote bag, and finally it was on the bag. What exactly was the situation, because this article is little help.
I mean, we can summarize it in "republican representative pours water on the property of her Democrat colleague from the same district, lies about origin and reason"
"...multiple times across several months."
I can’t hate this just because he’s republican. This is top-tier passive aggression.
Still stupid/shitty either way, but she's a Republican, he's a Democrat.
Why is everyone so sensible
So I'm assuming you misread it, but let's pretend for a moment that it was a Democrat pouring water into a Republican's bag - that would make you ok with it?
Try to not fall into that 'us vs them' at all costs mentality... You should hate it even more when 'your team' does something shitty like this, it lowers them and makes it far easier for the opposition to look better in comparison