{"id":51955,"date":"2014-03-11T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/miller-should-be-forced-to-resign"},"modified":"2014-03-21T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:57:32","slug":"miller-should-be-forced-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/miller-should-be-forced-to-resign","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Miller Should Be Forced to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24253\" alt=\"domestic-violence-women\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/domestic-violence-women.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/domestic-violence-women.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/domestic-violence-women-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Leslie Miller has crossed the line of parliamentary decency and should be made to step down. He has disrespected every Bahamian woman with his sick statement that he beat a former girlfriend to the point where his hand hurt: \u201cWhen I didn\u2019t beat her she used to tell me I ain\u2019t love her no more cause I don\u2019t hit her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller insisted he wasn\u2019t joking and was telling the truth. His about-face the following day is lame.<\/p>\n<p>Miller\u2019s behavior was un-parliamentary, to say the least, and I am shocked that the speaker did not suspend him.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a violent society where domestic abuse against women is a real problem and our Parliament cannot be used as a platform to advance this type of socially retarded thinking. Miller\u2019s apology the following day is not enough to undo the damage wrought in the very place where laws are made. He needs to remember that he was elected to serve both women and men and it is the women as well as the men who pay his salary. What is even more shameful is the laughter from other MPs during Miller\u2019s disgraceful performance.<\/p>\n<p>By remaining silent during this discourse, Minister of Social Services Melanie Griffin let down every Bahamian woman, including herself.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>\u00a0By: Athena Damianos<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Miller has crossed the line of parliamentary decency and should be made to step down. He has disrespected every Bahamian woman with his sick statement that he beat a former girlfriend to the point where his hand hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[352,93,60,120],"class_list":["post-51955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-abuse","tag-corruption","tag-plp","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}