Women (Including Republicans) Say 'Bull Semen Baron' Running For Nebraska Gov Has Groping Problem

Women (Including Republicans) Say 'Bull Semen Baron' Running For Nebraska Gov Has Groping Problem
Robyn Pennacchia


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Charles Herbster is running for governor in Nebraska, and he's got a lot going for him — for that particular state, anyway. He's a Republican, he wears a cowboy hat, he is, according to the headline of at least one article, a "bull semen baron," which appears to be related to his actual job and not a nickname he acquired due to an especially specific kink. He's also been accused of of groping by at least eight women, one of whom is Republican state Sen. Julie Slama, who will likely soon find out just how very seriously men in her party take these kinds of offenses towards women. Slama confirmed the incident after another woman who says she herself was groped by Herbster said she was at the Douglas County Republican Party’s annual Elephant Remembers dinner in 2019 when she saw Herbster reach up Slama's skirt and "touch her inappropriately."

Via The Nebraska Examiner:

Another person attending the 2019 event saw Herbster reach up Slama’s skirt and had told the Examiner about it. That witness and two others said they saw Herbster grope another young woman on her buttocks at the same event.

When the Examiner asked Slama on Monday if the two incidents at the event had been described accurately, and whether Herbster had touched her under her skirt, Slama said: “Yes, confirmed,” but declined to discuss the incidents further.

Six women, including the woman Slama saw being groped at the Elephant Remembers dinner, told the Nebraska Examiner that Herbster touched them inappropriately when they were saying hello or goodbye to him, or when they were posing for a photograph by his side.

The women said Herbster groped them on their buttocks, outside of their clothes, during political events or beauty pageants. Each woman said she was grabbed, not inadvertently grazed, by Herbster.

A seventh woman said Herbster once cornered her privately and kissed her forcibly.

Several of these women, reportedly, were in their late teens at the time they say they were groped by Herbster. Slama was 22. (Yes, she's a 25-year-old state senator, appointed to fill out a retired senator's term in January 2019.)

Hal Daub, the Republican former mayor of Omaha, claimed that Herbster did nothing wrong with regard to Slama, because********** "She was trying to attract Herbster's attention because she was trying to get reelected in her own right" ********— which he imagines made it entirely acceptable for him to reach up her skirt and touch her. Surely he does that to men who are trying to get reelected as well.

Daub also responded to the accusation by literally saying "I'd like to ask her what she was wearing." Slama tweeted a picture of the relatively conservative dress she was wearing that night in response, not that it should matter. She could have been wearing a dress made of Saran wrap and it still would not have been acceptable for Herbster to grope her without her consent.

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Now we'll see just how seriously the Republican menfolk take it, once again.


https://www.wonkette.com/women-say-bull-semen-baron-running-for-nebraska-governor-has-a-groping-problem