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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
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I'll sum it up as simply as this: by staying, Al would have been an obstacle to the change that needs to happen. By leaving, he's part of that change.
I can agree with Ms. Teachout that we need a better process to handle these things. And with you that losing a seat isn't the right penalty for every offense. But until that process is in place and some standards are set, he had to go because of the ongoing political harm and harm to the cause of taking inappropriate sexual conduct seriously his presence was doing.