Don't die on that Katie Hill, she's just another #MeToo storyby Tiana Lowe
| October 28, 2019 09:52 AM
Despite its tabloid treatment, the story of Katie Hill is a tragedy. But make no mistake, she's still a villain.
The Democratic congresswoman from California, who announced her resignation yesterday, is no ordinary victim of slut-shaming. She's a powerful woman who used her stature to begin an improper affair with a subordinate more than a year her junior, and one who expressed fear over Hill's abusive behavior.
In allegedly leaked text messages from Hill's former lover — a female campaign staffer who was courted by both Hill and her husband — she described the relationship with Hill as "toxic." ...
Hill likely violated ethics rules passed by the House just last year in her alleged affair with yet another subordinate (which she has denied), this one even younger and hired on the taxpayer dime. ... She deliberately began relationships with people she had the power to hire and fire, and then she violated House ethics rules while doing it.
And yet, her defenders have painted her as some sort of feminist martyr. ...
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