Blowback UPDATE

Newsday.com filed a story on the press conference. According to Newsday, Ed "$80,000/yr part-time spokesperson" Ward is trying to throw the issue back at the Suozzi administration and saying that they broke the coinfidentiality agreement by meeting with womens groups about the situation. We've now gone through the looking glass. Ward also tells Newsday that the republicans are not bound by the confidentiality agreement. "The confidentiality didn't include the legislature. We weren't a party to it,"
So what Ward is saying is that the republicans and their leader Schmitt feel that it is okay to make public the name of a victim of sexual abuse. What a disgusting position to take. It doesn't matter who the confidentiality agreement pretains to, what matters is that a victim's name was made public and she was subject to public humiliation by Schmitt and his degenerate cohorts. Schmitt and Ward ought to resign.

"All the work that the groups like ours have done over the years to encourage women to come forward under the security of confidentiality will unravel if actions like those of the legislature continue." Lillian McCormick, Women on the Job