Scott Jones just made a politically-calculated announcement that he will not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton after the Washington Post reported that Trump “bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping, and trying to have sex with women” in a recently uncovered recording.
Jones says that “Trump’s comments that were disclosed yesterday discuss conduct which is at best disgusting, and at worst criminal.”
This is a fascinating statement from a man accused of conduct that is not very different from what Trump describes. Jones has been accused of sexually harassing a twenty-six-year-old female deputy who worked under him.
The Sacramento Bee reported that while under oath, the female deputy alleged that in the jail’s law library Jones “abused his position as her informal supervisor to grope, kiss and make other unwelcome sexual advances,” harassing her “approximately thirty times.”
“This politically calculated decision at the eleventh hour isn’t based on Scott Jones’ values or principles, it’s just a desperate and self-serving move to rescue his political career and distract from his own pattern of disrespect towards women,” said Barb Solish of the DCCC. “It’s not going to work.”