Eric Massa explains how he “sexually harassed” one of his subordinates:
“I said goodnight to the bridesmaid. I sat at down at the table where my whole staff was, all of them, by the way bachelors. One of them looked at me and — as they would do after, I don’t know, 15 gin and tonics and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne — a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid. His points were clear and his words were far more colorful than that.
“And I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and I said, ‘What I really ought to be doing is frakking you,’ and then tossled the guy’s hair and left, went to my room, because I knew the party was getting to a point where I shouldn’t be there.”
“Was that inappropriate of me? Absolutely.”
Inappropriate? Maybe. But we suspect the real problem here is that Massa wasn’t tousling Barney Frank’s hair when he suggested a little sport “frakking.”
Instead of being forced to resign, Massa would have been promoted to a leadership position.
Source: Politico
