Thune has to pay people to defend his rape protection vote. How ironic.

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Ironic Johnny; hunting for a defender?

It seems the only ones chastising Thune’s vote are citizens writing letters to the editor and the only ones defending Thune’s vote are his paid staffers.

Sen. John Thune’s communication director, Andrea Fouberg, claims the letter from Will Bennett in the Oct. 21 Argus Leader was full of misinformation and inaccuracies. I believe Fouberg’s letter is the one with misinformation and inaccuracies.

Sen. Al Franken’s amendment would withhold defense contracts from companies such as Halliburton if they restrict employees from taking workplace sexual assault cases to court. Currently, employees of defense contractors who are sexually assaulted can’t sue in court but instead are forced into secret arbitration where chances are good that arbitration will favor the company, not the employee.

I find it incredible that Fouberg contends that the Franken amendment “does nothing more than reward trial lawyers.” I say that Thune’s vote against the amendment does nothing more than reward defense contractors.

I thought it was funny that the defending letter writer was exposed to be a Thune staffer, typical damage control from the Republicants. Still waiting to hear something from the SD MSM on this one. Someone needs to go to Kranz’s desk, wake him up and remind him that he is part of the ‘liberal’ media 🙂

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30 Senate Republicans support federally funded rape of private contractors, the list includes John Thune

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(H/T- Helga)

This is all pretty sick and wrong, what kind of person, let alone a senator, votes to protect corporations from rape convictions and lawsuits? Oh, that’s right, Republicans. I wonder what Ironic Johnny’s wife and daughters think of his vote?

Watch Jon Stewart’s video first.

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers while working in Iraq and locked in a shipping container for over a day to prevent her from reporting her attack. The rape occurred outside of U.S. criminal jurisdiction, but to add serious insult to serious injury she was not allowed to sue KBR because her employment contract said that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration–a process that overwhelmingly favors corporations.

This year, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment that would deny defense contracts to companies that ask employees to sign away the right to sue. It passed, but it wasn’t the slam dunk Jon Stewart expected. Instead the amendment received 30 nay votes all from Republicans. “I understand we’re a divided country, some disagreements on health care. How is ANYONE against this?” He asked.

He went on to show video of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) arguing that it’s not the government’s place to decide who the government does business with and juxtaposed that with Republican sentiment on how the government should deal with ACORN. “I guess it’s an efficiency thing. You don’t want to waste tax-payer money giving it to someone who advises fake prostitutes how to commit imaginary crimes, you want to give it to Halliburton because they’re committing real gang rape.”

Thune (R-SD)

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)

Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)

Kyl (R-AZ)

McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

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