When the party leader and DCCC head tell you to resign, that’s a sign. In the unlikely event that Kihuen tries to run again, he will get a primary and his money will dry up. No solution is good in a district they lost in 2014 in a huge upset, but I can tell you that phones are lit up with calls and texts, and vultures are circling. This is all so fresh – the story broke Friday – that you can’t expect anyone to be rational, especially Kihuen, his enablers and his fans. It seems highly unlikely she fabricated the story and much more likely it is not the only one involving Kihuen. It’s a story repeated over and over by women trapped on the wrong end of a power dynamic by men whose arrogant sense of entitlement leads them to despicable acts such as the one Samantha described. This was a young woman involved in a major race, trying to slough it off until she could no more and quit. You can hear the Titus sneering drawl I know you can.Īll schadenfreude aside, the story told by Samantha, corroborated by texts at the time to a friend, is of a boss creepily hitting on a subordinate, even after she told him she wasn’t interested and had a boyfriend. It was Titus’ statement, though, that struck me as the most telling, even though it stopped just short of calling for his resignation: “Many believed Ruben had great potential, but unfortunately his personal behavior has jeopardized his political career.Ruben needs to step up and do what's right for the people of Nevada." Jacky Rosen and others have called for him to resign. And that BuzzFeed story indicates that he may have bridged the gap between flirty and predatory, which is partly why House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Congressional Committee Chairman Ben Lujan, Rep. But they were wary of his reputation for frivolousness – his propensity for posting shirtless pictures on social media, his reputation as a flirtatious player. Most Democratic insiders did not think he was an accident waiting to happen. The union’s ground game brought him out of a primary field and to election. When he finally had another chance last year, Kihuen didn’t get elected the Culinary Union elected him. Prince Harry pushed him into the 2012 race but then yanked him out when Dina Titus refused to yield and Kihuen declined to work hard. His natural skills and telegenic charisma caught the eye of Team Reid and the Culinary union, where his mother has been a member. He has the practiced earnestness of so many politicians, but you never felt as if he could answer much past, “Hey, how are you?” He did nothing of note in Carson City, but wanted to run for Congress for years. He was a lackluster state legislator and woeful fundraiser. Kihuen, who began as a Harry Reid protégé a decade and a half ago, has always been preternaturally ambitious but has never matched that drive to succeed with a concomitant work ethic or substantive accomplishments. Kihuen is a symbol of another dream, too, the American one, where anyone can accomplish anything, where the Mexican-born son of a housekeeper can become a congressman. Kihuen, propelled by his good looks and natural charm, was the first DREAMer to be elected to Congress, and now he may crush the dreams of so many who have looked up to him.
This denouement is both heartbreaking and, perhaps, inevitable. Reality will intrude, and with his colleagues and House leadership saying he needs to go, an ethics probe looming if he does not and the possibility of other women coming forward, he is a dead man walking. I’m told he is in denial and denying everything. He will be forced to resign – the most likely outcome – or he will decide not to run for re-election or he will file and lose. (The Democrats can’t even guarantee who their nominee would be because that person is chosen by a state central committee made up of a combination of fierce partisans and total loons.)
#Gop stands for gropers or perverts registration#
The seat is rated a lean Democratic seat by most analysts – Democrats have a double-digit registration edge, but Kihuen only won by 4 points and Hillary Clinton by only 5. National and local Democratic strategists are hamstrung over what to do, wanting Kihuen out of the picture but fretting they could lose the seat in a low-turnout special election. The only mystery is the timing of his burial and whether Democrats can save the seat.īeyond the cringe-worthy depredations by Kihuen described in the BuzzFeed story, and the awful situation described by a young woman, emblematic of so many of these stories we are hearing since Harvey Weinstein’s accusers broke the silence, this is now also about politics.
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