{"id":5154,"date":"2012-03-15T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2012-03-15T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:55:44","slug":"new-development-in-minnesota-family-value-republicans-having-affairs-maneno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/new-development-in-minnesota-family-value-republicans-having-affairs-maneno\/","title":{"rendered":"New Development in Minnesota Family Value Republicans Having Affairs Maneno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You will will recall that a while back <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2011\/12\/16\/minnesota-senate-majority-leader-amy-koch-quits-then-crashes\/\">our Republican Leader was caught having an affair with a male staffer<\/a>, who was then fired. Well, he&#8217;s suing on the bases of sex discrimination; he claims that female staffers with whom affairs are had are routinely not fired, and he was fired because he was a guy.  <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2012\/03\/15\/brodkorb-threatens-to-expose-other-capitol-affairs\/\">His lawyer has officially stated:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe intends to depose all of the female legislative staff employees who participated in intimate relationships, as well as the legislators who were party to those intimate relationships, in support of his claims of gender discrimination,\u201d the notice said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brodkorb is seeking a half a million in damages.  I wonder if he&#8217;ll be using that to pay out damages to the people he is now bent on damaging?  <\/p>\n<p>PS: Stephanie has also <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/almostdiamonds\/2012\/03\/15\/iokiyar-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-edition\/\">posted<\/a> an item on this.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will will recall that a while back our Republican Leader was caught having an affair with a male staffer, who was then fired. Well, he&#8217;s suing on the bases of sex discrimination; he claims that female staffers with whom affairs are had are routinely not fired, and he was fired because he was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/new-development-in-minnesota-family-value-republicans-having-affairs-maneno\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Development in Minnesota Family Value Republicans Having Affairs Maneno<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[301],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1l8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}