*Richard Komi is no longer a New Hampshire state legislator in New Hampshire because on Saturday he resigned after he posted a tweet that dismissed sexual assault allegations against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Komi a now-former Manchester Democrat, says the assault was unlikely because of the way women’s bodies are constructed. He tweeted that a woman’s anatomy would make it difficult to digitally penetrate her without “some cooperation from the female herself.”
Yep, those words really came out of his mouth. With that in mind, he’s dismissing former Senate staffer Tara Reade’s allegations against Biden as a lie. He also accused Reade of “looking for attention.”
Biden, by the way, has denied the allegations.
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Meanwhile, the tweet, which has since been deleted, prompted New Hampshire House Speaker Steve Shurtleff to call for Komi’s resignation late Friday over what he described as an “outrageous and offensive tweet about sexual assault and survivors of sexual assault.”
“I am appalled by Representative Komi’s comments. They were dismissive and hurtful to survivors of sexual assault across the Granite State and across the country,” Shurtleff said. “The comments are not fitting for the New Hampshire House of Representatives and immediately upon learning of them I called him and asked Representative Komi to resign his seat.”
In a letter sent Saturday to Shurtleff, Komi said he was resigning because of the tweet.
“I also want to offer my sincere apologies to anybody whose feelings may have been hurt by the tweets. I am and will continue to be a supporter of victims of sexual and domestic assault,” Komi said in his letter, which was shared with The Associated Press by a member of the Speaker’s office. “The tweets were very poorly worded and do not reflect who I am and what I stand for. I ask for the forgiveness of all who have been a victim of sexual or any other kind of assault.”
Reade alleges that Biden pushed her against a wall in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the spring of 1993, groped her and penetrated her with his finger. Last year, Reade publicly accused Biden of inappropriate touching, but did not allege sexual assault.
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