I’m not shocked to see Politico trying to drag down a GOP member by reporting on their private military service record but this was just idiotic on their part. They really tried to use a military veteran’s sexual assault as a means to her end? Ignorant. CD-01 candidate, Republican Jennifer-Ruth Green owned those clowns.
The races are getting ugly and Mrs. Greens’ opponent, Rep. Frank Mrvan, is reportedly the one who provided her private military records to Politico. The legalities here are questionable, to say the least. Mrs. Green is a black American who served her country in Iraq. She was attacked by an Iraqi serviceman and that attack was in her private military records somehow her opponent and Politico felt like that attack should be shared with the world to seemingly humiliate her.
I am not going to take part in Politico’s game by sharing the details or adding a link to their filthy article. You can read about it on several other sites (like here) but honestly, it’s her private business in my opinion. Green sustains that what happened to her is in the past and if she wants it to stay there, I support her decision.
I’m not going to further victimize her like POLITICO or her shady opponent. What I want to do here is to showcase how this proud American fought the system back after she says her opponent “illegally” obtained the information. She accuses Mrvan and Politico of behaving as her assaulter did.
“The reality of it is – like I said at one point in my life to my assailant, ‘No. Please stop. Don’t.’ – and he did what he wanted to do … This is the exact same situation all over again, all because there was a man who wanted some sort of gratification,” Green said. “Congressman Frank Mrvan gets his gratification of trying to think he’s smearing my name. Adam Wren gets his gratification of thinking he’s going to get a good smear story out of it. And all it does is essentially reopen wounds for victims.”
Green insisted that Wren failed to garner the full story of the incident and took her “experience and diminished it to a place where he can just say a clinical report of exactly what happened.”
“I’m surprised because Adam Wren spent time in this article focusing on every single detail down to the skirt I was wearing, down to the color of the skirt I was wearing, down to every single knob I touched, all of those things, but yet he writes clinically about one of the worst days of my life,” Green added. “He has no idea the concept of being forced to be in a four by four, round circular area, 30 feet in the ground in a tower where you only have windows and a 30-foot drop on the other side, 30-foot drop to escape somebody who was blocking your path [with] somebody who has a clear intent with a weapon in hand, who is focused on trying to take advantage of you, and you’re able to escape that with minimal physical harm. And he wants to reduce that to 50 characters.”
Green wants an investigation into how the documents were provided to Politico. She calls it an “unauthorized, unlawful” release of her Air Force personnel file.
“In the letter, Green made it clear that she “did not consent, in writing or otherwise, to the disclosure of my personnel file to Politico or anyone else” and pointed to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C § 552a, as proof that her file should not have been released.
“Coming as when it does – in the closing weeks of my campaign for Congress – makes me believe that this is a politically motivated attempt to impact the upcoming election,” Green concluded in the letter.”
She said she pleaded with Politico not to publish the information about her sexual assault.
“I believe Congressman Frank Mrvan illegally obtained those documents and was floating them around to press,” Green said. “That’s what our Politico team told us, that they were farming it out to several different press outlets to see who could write a very disgusting, ugly smear piece against me with the intent to paint me as a disgraced military officer.”
She’s speaking up. She also points to the double-standard in politics when it comes to acceptable behavior.
“If I were on the other side of the ticket, they would weep for me, they would mourn for me,” Green said. “Only because I’m a Republican do they feel this is acceptable. But it’s unacceptable for every vet, it’s unacceptable for every woman, it’s unacceptable for everybody who has ever been a victim of sexual assault in their entire life.”
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It’s my opinion that her creepy opponent and Politico tried to further victimize this warrior and she shined right through it. Shame on them.