Another story virtually overshadowed by the impeachment inquiry being undertaken by the Progressives in the House of Representatives was the resignation of one of their own this week.
Rep. Katherine "Katie" Lauren Hill who represented the 25th Congressional District of California (Simi Valley, Santa Clarita, Palmdale) resigned from the House of Representatives this week after revelations of her misconduct and inappropriate relationships with paid campaign and House staffers.
Her resignation came on the very day her Progressive Party passed an Impeachment Inquiry Resolution 232-196 in the House. This resolution would be the last vote cast by Katie Hill as a member of Congress.
Katie Hill came to Congress after serving as the Executive Director of PATH- People Assisting the Homeless, a California non-profit addressing the state wide homeless epidemic in California. Hill defeated Republican Steve Knight in the 2018 mid-term elections as part of what Progressives have coined the "blue wave".
Her campaign to unseat Knight was called "the most millennial campaign ever" for Congress and Hill was endorsed by former President Barrack Obama. She was a shining star in the Progressive movement. She defeated an incumbent Republican. Knight had served for two terms before losing to Hill in 2018.
Katie Hill has levied the charge that she has become the victim of right wing operatives who she claims were behind the release of naked photos of her as well as reporting on her inappropriate relationships with staffers. The mainstream media outlets ignored the story. It hasn't really even been news in truth until Kaite Hill publicly stepped down and then and only then was her story even mentioned. The Progressive media has been trumpeting their impeachment inquiry and taken the oxygen out of any other real reporting.
But that is exactly what this was. Katie Hill violated the trust of those around her and that of her constituents. Hill engaged in what can only e described countless inappropriate interactions with staffers many of whom were were younger than her. Hill is said to have engaged in "throubles" with staff and her husband Kenny Heslep who is said to have worked under Hill at PATH. The couple were married in 2010 but separated earlier this year after Hill went to Washington.
Many have claimed that Hill suffered from "power lust". That Hill used her position a leverage over staff and demanded things of her staff that many felt were inappropriate but engaged in because Hill was their boss. A clear case of sexual harassment. Was the sex consensual ? It appears so but that does not excuse the action engaged in by Hill.
Hill was declared a rising star of Progressives in large part because of her championed sexuality. Hill made no secret of her openness and bisexuality. Hill is said to be demanding and appears as though many whom worked for her feared her. If Hill used that fear or used her position as power held over her staff than this of course is a story that should have been taken very seriously by the media; it wasn't. Only a few media concerns and mostly "right leaning" covered the story for weeks. Red State took the lead for example with reporting from Jennifer Van Laar whom Progressives now have painted as a revenge operative because she worked for Republican campaigns in California and for opponents of Hill during the 2018 election. The mainstream Progressive media has dismissed the notion that these allegations were growing even while Hill was campaigning in 2018 however the media largely ignored them.
It was really not until nude photographs were revealed that placed Hill in very uncompromising positions. When these hit the internet, the Progressive media spun the story as "revenge porn" from Hill's husband Kenny Heslep in an attempt to garner support for Hill. The media also then began to spin the yarn of Republican operatives attempting to bring Hill down yet failed to ever acknowledge the facts in the story being reported. The facts of the story were never disputed by Katie Hill.
Hill was involved in a two year "throuple" with a female staffer much younger than her who was in her employ. This inappropriate relationship also involved Hill's husband. However, both Heslep and the staffer noticed changes in Hill once she arrived in Washington.
The Progressive media virtually ignored the facts as well as the reporting by Red State and others and never really gave credit to this concerns for the reporting in the first place. Many would not even mention who broke the story at all. The Progressive media simply took to the offensive as they typically do when they know that the truth is not on their side.
It became clear that none of the California Congressional Delegation was coming to the aid of Hill in her attempt to defend herself. Katie Hill has attempted to play the "victim" in this story and has refused to address her clear "power lust". Hill's own words on the House floor regarding "power" were very telling and align with the story told by her husband and staffer regarding how she used her position. Instead she lay blame at her husband for the events. Hill was quoted as stating that Heslep "seems determined to try to humiliate me".
Jason McGahan of Los Angeles Magazine reported on the story and revealed an interesting insight into the media's motives with regard to the story or as it seem the "non story" regarding Hill and the media's priorities. This references Heslep's attempt to tell his side of the story:
On September 27, Stephen Daniels, host of The Talk of Santa Clarita, a local politics podcast, received an ominous Facebook message from Heslep: “Any interest in an interview, and the whole story yet?” the message reads. Daniels declined Heslep’s offer, telling him that the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, which Hill had backed on September 24, took precedence for him over the couple’s marital problems. Heslep responded: “screen caps of this conversation to be making an appearance soon!” Heslep did not return a message left on his cell phone.
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/katie-hill-jennifer-van-laar/
Very interesting. The response demonstrates the concerted effort to focus solely on impeachment and not report on the story involving a sitting California Representative who has abused her office. It is very clear however, that had this been a California Republican the media would be covering this very differently.
CNN had is on take of course at the end upon the Hill resignation calling it the result of "online trolls" and a "casualty of smear campaign" it is clear CNN is only getting back what it routinely does to conservative officials all the time. Hill wasn't "targeted" for being a women. Rather, Hill was "reported" on by media in large covering like so many stories CNN refuses to cover when it does not fit into its narratives. Hill did not have to resign, Hill could have stayed in the fight. She chose to walk away.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/opinions/katie-hill-resignation-revenge-porn-against-women/index.html
This not about Katie Hill being the first openly bisexual in the House of Representatives no matter how hard the Progressives try. Nobody really cares about her sexuality. It was not until she abused her office in the manner in which she had and the lengths she had gone was discovered that then issue revealed itself. Hill was not targeted due to her sexuality or gender as she has claimed but rather for abusing her office just as any other member of Congress should be.
Accountability should never be held hostage by gender or sexuality. Period.
Progressive media's only concern appears to be the person who may have leaked the photo\s of Hill with her lovers. They have spent little time asking questions regarding Hill's behavior that the photos themselves illustrate.
"I am leaving now because of a double standard. I am leaving because I no longer want to be used as a bargaining chip." (Katie Hill- @RepKatieHill) @KatieHill4CA
"I am leaving because I didn't want to be peddled by papers and blogs and websites, used by shameless operatives for the dirtiest gutter politics that I've ever seen, and the right-wing media to drive clicks and expand their audience by distributing intimate photos of me taken without my knowledge, let alone my consent, for the sexual entertainment of millions.
I am leaving because of a misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching.
I am leaving because of the thousands of vile, threatening emails, calls and texts that made me fear for my life and the lives of the people that I care about. Today is the first time I've left my apartment since the photos, taken without my consent, were released. And I'm scared.
I'm leaving because for the sake of my community, my staff, my family and myself I can't allow this to continue. Because I've been told that people were angry when I stood strong after the first article was posted and that they had hundreds more photos and text messages that they would release bit by bit until they broke me down to nothing while they used my faults and my past to distract from the things that matter most.
I am leaving because there is only one investigation that deserves the attention of this country and that's the one that we voted on today. Today I ask you all to stand with me and commit to creating a future where this no longer happens to women and girls.
Yes, I'm stepping down, but I refuse to let this experience scare off other women who dare to take risks, who dare to step into this light, who dare to be powerful. It might feel like they won in the short term, but they can't in the long term. We cannot let them.
The way to overcome this setback is for women to keep showing up, to keep running for office, to keep stepping up as leaders, because the more we show up, the less power they have.
I'm leaving, but we have men who have been credibly accused of intentional acts of sexual violence and remain in boardrooms, on the Supreme Court, in this very body and worst of all, in the Oval Office"
*People like Democrat Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax accused of sexual assault by two women in the Commonwealth of Virginia ***
Ultimately, Katie Hill is leaving because she broke the public trust and abused her office and the "power" she craved more than anything else.
Hill reveals this in her own words when she states:
"The forces of revenge by a bitter jealous man, cyber exploitation and sexual shaming that target our gender and a large segment of society that fears and hates powerful women have combined to push a young woman out of power and say that she doesn't belong here."
Nobody ever claimed Hill did not belong in Congress. She was in fact a rising star. It was her own actions that led to her demise. Hill and the Progressive media have yet to prove one shred evidence to support that Hill's husband was/is abusive. Not one.
Rather, Heslep and the staffer have provided hundreds of texts with Hill that demonstrate it has been Hill herself that has been the abusive player in the story that ultimately resulted in her resignation.
The rest is mere damage control.
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