Grace Panetta
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Politics reporter @19thnews. Past: @businessinsider. Always looking for the gender angle. Say hi gpanetta@19thnews.org. gracepanetta.03 on Signal
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I didn’t expect to be writing about penises and the devil today, but here we are. John James, the GOP candidate for governor, took a recent interview in a very strange direction.
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“Edwards also claimed that he not only gave gifts to female staffers, but also gifted male employees ‘olive oil, wine, cookware, rum, Kennedy Center tickets and even a handgun to a male employee.’” ????
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News: Chuck Edwards sent a 23 page dear colleague letter defending himself against sexual harassment allegations amidst a possible censure saying that "Poetry is not sexual misconduct."
Also defends himself by saying one female employee viewed him as her “second dad."
“An affectionate friendship is not a sexual proposition. A gift is not sexual misconduct. A compliment is not sexual misconduct. Poetry is not sexual misconduct. Socializing with a colleague is not sexual misconduct. Caring deeply about someone with whom you have worked and come to know for years is not sexual misconduct,” Edwards wrote in the letter.
Its a wild letter.
W/ @ReporterOriana
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Inbox: @emilyslist endorsing 5 new Dem House candidates in “deeper Republican territory” #MI01# #MN08# #NV02# #VA06# #WA05#
Some 👀 numbers on women voters via @playbookdc
a stunning lede in @lindsayzoladz's remembrance of Dolly Parton
In another special election featuring a relative of a deceased politician, former Rep. David Scott’s daughter Marcye Scott lost the special runoff to serve out the rest of her father’s term in the House #GA13#
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Decision Desk HQ projects Everton Blair wins the GA US House 13 Runoff
#DecisionMade#: 8:41 PM EDT
One potential problem for Darline Graham tonight: many of the counties that accounted for the most votes in the Aug 11 primary were disproportionately in Norman's and Fry's territory #SCSen#
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Precedent-setting moment in news media. The editor of the second most important opinion page in the country greenlights the use of AI for drafting pieces, no disclosure necessary.
clarifying piece from @shefalil on why abortion opponents are turning their attention to banning surrogacy, and how those arguments connect to their IVF opposition
all new york tourists going to Maine for the first time are embarrassing. I, a Massachusetts tourist who has gone to Maine many times, am of course much different and certainly not annoying to locals
currently wondering about the Venn diagram of people who support data center construction as a means of generating local tax revenue but staunchly boycott using LLMs on intellectual/creative grounds
Sabrina is the closest thing we have to a modern Jane Austen
A few years ago, I spent nearly a year making the case that an independent journalist publishing on Substack deserved the same access to Congress as reporters from traditional news organizations.
Eventually, the House Periodical Press Gallery agreed. And now others have followed.
A Media Operator profiled how that credential changed my reporting and how I’m building Once Upon a Hill from a one-person publication into something bigger.
Grateful to tell the story:
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@neeratanden He told me just now he was referring to Fetterman, not Stevens
Balogun can play on Monday if Mike Pence has the courage
