BREAKING: GOP Judiciary Spokesman Resigns As Past Sexual Harassment Firing Revealed

By Susie Madrak — September 22, 2018

WASHINGTON — A press adviser helping lead the Senate Judiciary Committee’s response to a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment allegation against him.

Garrett Ventry, 29, who served as a communications aide to the committee chaired by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, had been helping coordinate the majority party's messaging in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago at a high school party. In a response to NBC News, Ventry denied any past "allegations of misconduct."

After NBC News raised questions about Ventry's employment history and the sexual assault allegation against him, Judiciary Committee Spokesman Taylor Foy replied in a statement: "While (Ventry) strongly denies allegations of wrongdoing, he decided to resign to avoid causing any distraction from the work of the committee."

You may remember CSC as the coordinators of the Swiftboat Veterans attack against John Kerry.
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So it sounds like Ventry joined CRC in late July as a "Senior Acct Executive" https://t.co/9bflQn3LvO

— Omnishambles (@birdpant) September 22, 2018

Breaking —> @GarrettVentry, a comms adviser to Senate Judiciary Committee on SCOTUS nomination, abruptly resigned after NBC began looking into an allegation of sexual harassment. Statement from committee spokesman pic.twitter.com/fArEkZgIq3

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 22, 2018

If @ChuckGrassley can't even properly vet his own staff to prevent hiring sexual harassers like @GarrettVentry, how can we trust him to properly vet accused sexual assaulter Brett Kavanaugh for the highest court in the land?

— Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlickstein) September 22, 2018

As @demfromCT points out, the comms adviser for Senate Judiciary GOP that denied any involvement in the conspiracy most recently worked at the same PR firm that Whelan used to push the theory.

What a coincidence. pic.twitter.com/zztOHAjLDt

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) September 21, 2018

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