{"id":8932,"date":"2006-11-01T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8932.html"},"modified":"2006-11-01T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T19:19:16","slug":"this-probably-wont-help-the-gender-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/this-probably-wont-help-the-gender-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"This probably won’t help the gender gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no doubt just a coincidence, but am I the only one who’s noticed that House Republicans have had an awful year with regards to violence against women?<\/p>\n

In New York<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rep. John Sweeney [R-N.Y.] got into an early-morning fracas with his wife that became so frightening she called 911 for help, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

Gayle (Gaia) Sweeney told the 911 dispatcher that her husband was “knocking her around the house,” according to a December 2005 state police report obtained by The News…. She later told a state trooper who came to their suburban Albany residence that she and her husband had a “verbal argument that turned a little physical by her being grabbed by the neck and pushed around the house,” according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Pennsylvania<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While representing the good people of the 10th District, the married congressman [Republican Rep. Don Sherwood] shacked up in Washington with a Peruvian immigrant more than three decades his junior. During one assignation in 2004, the woman, who says Sherwood was striking her and trying to strangle her, locked herself in a bathroom and called 911; Sherwood told police he was giving her a back rub.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in Nevada<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A single mother and a Nevada congressman running for governor gave vastly different accounts of a night of drinking that ended in three calls to 911, a police investigation and a battery complaint that was later withdrawn, police reports show.<\/p>\n

Chrissy Mazzeo made three calls to 911 in which she told operators she had been assaulted by Rep. Jim Gibbons [R-Nev.], according to investigative reports released by police Wednesday. Mazzeo, 32, told police that Gibbons grabbed her arms and tried to force himself on her late Friday in a parking garage near a restaurant where she had been drinking with a friend, the congressman and his top adviser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems like a lot for one party in one chamber in one year, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no doubt just a coincidence, but am I the only one who’s noticed that House Republicans have had an awful year with regards to violence against women? In New York: Rep. John Sweeney [R-N.Y.] got into an early-morning fracas with his wife that became so frightening she called 911 for help, the Daily News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}