Their reappearance would not surprise me: the Darling Gardens toilet block is not, as far as some beats go, particularly well used.
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More often than not their courage went unrewarded, and they’d emerge moments later, baffled and tense. After a while – perhaps the length of time it takes to convince oneself there are no undercover cops in the vicinity – they would get out of their cars and take the plunge through the wrought-iron gate labelled ‘Men’. In the year I lived within a stone’s throw of the gardens I never saw anyone who looked purposefully plain-clothed, but I did see some of those whom the sign is supposed to deter: men who would pull up alongside the toilets, and watch the block anxiously.
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Other searches return hits to conservative websites, calls for Farrow to get to work, and a story in the Washington Examiner detailing Fox talker Laura Ingraham’s defense of the senator.In a corner of the Darling Gardens in Melbourne’s boutique inner-city suburb of Clifton Hill stands a small, well-maintained toilet block that sports a sign warning that plain-clothes police regularly patrol the area. The Times search returned a link to radio station in Indianapolis, which recycled a story from Chicks On The Right. A Google search of the topic returned nothing from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Newark Star-Ledger, the top newspaper in Booker’s state of New Jersey. And the perpetrator of my story is a Democratic hero/2020 contender…hardly a tale that can be programmed, categorized or easily referenced by the modern American media apparatus.īut The New Yorker isn’t the only media outlet to ignore the writer. I do consider myself liberal but I no longer consider myself a Democrat. Farrow has not, apparently, contacted the writer.īut because a feminist celebrity turned the #MeToo movement in a political weapon, the writer claims, his cause is hopeless. On the advice of a lawyer affiliated with the Republican National Committee, the writer contacted Ronan Farrow, the New Yorker scribe who leveled some of the shaky, unproven allegations against Kavanaugh. Booker’s histrionic defense of alleged sexual assault victims was so laughably ironic, so jarringly cringeworthy and so triggering,” he wrote, “that it put me into a state of depressed rumination.” He claims to have sought the counsel of three psychologists. Like many if not most homosexuals, the writer was abused as a child and also suffered sexual harassment at work. The writer of the document does not accuse of Booker of being a homosexual. At that point, I pulled away quite violently and told him I had to go. At the same time, he disengaged from rubbing me and used his left hand to push me to my knees from my shoulder for what was clearly a move to have me perform oral sex on him. He then used his other hand to grab my left hand with his right and pulled it over to touch him. I seem to remember saying something like “What is happening?” It was a bit like having vertigo. Especially this Senator.” He then put his left hand on my groin, over my jeans and began to rub. He said that “Being a hero was a serious turn-on.” He continued, “The Senate appreciates fine citizens like you. He pulled me into the restroom, albeit not too forcefully and slowly pushed me against the restroom wall. Then Booker, who admits he groped a 15-year-old girl in 1992, made his move: He smiled and very gregariously said “Hey!”īooker and the fellow chatted for a bit and the senator asked him to speak “in private,” the accuser writes, but “what happened next happened so fast that it was hard for me to comprehend what was going on.” When it comes to these restrooms it is customary to knock first in case someone is using it, even though there is an inner lock. Upon washing my hands prior to leaving, I heard knocking on the door. I stopped to use one of the building’s single-occupancy restrooms. He suffered “what would prove to be a much less pleasant interaction.”
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The writer was impressed to meet such a stellar champion of the so-called “LGBT community,” a man the writer calls a “hero of mine.” But then he bumped into Booker in the restroom, which is where, he writes, Booker treated him like a hooker.