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By Guy Page
WCAX reports that Rep. Bob Hooper (D-Burlington) is resigning from the Legislature following his expulsion from the House Government Operations and Military Affairs Committee last week, as reported first by Vermont Daily Chronicle on Friday.
Shortly after Friday’s announcement, virtually every House Democrat (all but three) signed a letter calling on Hooper, a Vietnam veteran and lawmaker representing North Burlington since 2019, to resign his seat in the Legislature, the Vermont Political Observer reported Friday.
The House Sexual Harrassment Prevention Panel – not the chamber’s ethics panel – investigated and found Hooper had engaged in sexual harassment against another (unidentified) member of the Legislature.
Sources close to the incident, as well as one media report, say the incident involved a photoshopped photo of a female colleague in the 150-seat House of Representatives. If so, this would fit comments made by Hooper to Vermont Public reporter Lola Duffort Friday, March 13:
“‘I don’t think I’m a serial sexual harasser,’ Hooper said. He said he just sometimes acted in ways that might be perceived as inappropriate for more formal settings, like the Legislature. ‘I make no bones about being sarcastic and a jokester and I come from a family that’s, you know, touchy. It’s kind of like ‘This is not the place.’ And sometimes that’s lost,’ he said.”
In a letter to WCAX published this weekend, Hooper expressed dissatisfaction with the lengthy process and the sexual harassment panel oversight. “I maintain that this matter should have been directed to the ethics panel. It didn’t and over the 8 months it has been cooking (since before last session….) the complaintant and I have probably both been stuck in a process that was for some reason mired there also.”
The bi-partisan sexual harassment panel is chaired by Rep. Mollie Burke (D-Brattleboro) and includes these lawmakers: Rep. Carolyn Branagan, Rep. Troy Headrick, Rep. Michael Mrowicki and Rep. Beth Quimby.
VDC emailed back and forth with Hooper this weekend but was unable to acquire more information.
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I don’t know anything about this man, but the way the sharks are circling it makes me wonder if the sharks are far left loonies (Progs) that smell the blood ? Regardless, I love it when duplicitous Dems go into a feeding frenzy, and they eat their own !
I know Bob personally and in no way is this set of circumstances truly reflective of him. I concur with your post. My disdain for the Montpellier/Burlington axis of evil was reinforced by the actions taken by them!
Yes Patrick …… Don’t you wonder why Mr. Hooper is such a threat to the Leftists/Marxists? Their worldviews are so upside down.
Maybe it’s his Honorable Service as a man who sacrificed and served in the U.S. Military and the Vietnam War?
I THANK YOU Mr. Hooper for Your Sacrifice and Service to our Country!
Rolling around on the floor in a skirt is professional. No more professional in pants.
Was it Mary?
I served with Bob in the Legislature, we were on the same committee. He was always very respectful, considerate, and willing to talk with those of us who looked at the solutions to the issues we were dealing with differently. I found him to be a person of integrity. I believe in this process he was already guilty until he was proven innocent. He is one of the good ones.
This is what happens when you are a moderate in the party of the cultural Marxist, you get cancelled. They need to be called out, and here is a comedian, calling them out…..enjoy.
Type in Mary Catherine Stone, go to images, and there she is in the red dress and shoes that match the carpet she is standing upon.