UPDATED: Pelosi says Biden should stop being touchy-feely with women
In other words, keep your handshakes at arms' length and don't be touchy-feely.Pelosi, D-Calif., told the event, which was sponsored by Politico, that Biden "has to understand that in the world we are in now people's space is important to them and what's important is how they receive it, not necessarily how you intended it."
That statement came on a day on which a second woman said Biden had acted inappropriately, touching her face with both hands and rubbing noses with her in 2009. The allegation by Amy Lappos, a former aide to Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, followed a magazine essay by another woman, former Nevada politician Lucy Flores, who wrote that Biden kissed her on the back of the head in 2014.
"After he finished speaking, he stopped to talk to us about how important a congressional staff is, which I thought was awesome," Lappos said."He wrapped both his hands around my face and pulled me in," said Lappos, who is now 43. "I thought, 'Oh, God, he's going to kiss me.' Instead, he rubbed noses with me."She said the experience left her feeling "weird and uncomfortable" and was "absolutely disrespectful of my personal boundaries.
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