The #MeToo movement has been a powerful and important force for holding men accountable for sexual harassment and assault. I was proud that our Bold TV reporting caused a U.S. congresswoman to donate $6,800 in campaign funds to support #MeToo after we notified her office she had received donations from the disgraced Bikram yoga instructor accused of multiple counts of sexual assault — allegations he denied (though a court ordered him to pay a court awarded $6.5 million in punitive damages and $924,000 in compensatory damages). Last year, I personally benefited from #MeToo and saw a vendor suddenly pay me his long past-due contractual obligation–after he’d dragged his feet for months–when I said he couldn’t treat women this way in light of public accountability. Yet even while I support the #MeToo movement’s aims, I also believe in upholding our justice system. We’ll delve more, in a bipartisan conversation, at 10am this Friday live on Bold TV about the specifics around the sexual assault and harassment allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. Regardless of where you fall on this topic, I hope it will spark a massive societal shift in how we deal with these sensitive issues. I discussed this in a CNN oped today about the…
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