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Republican Sexual Harassment (239 instances)

313: Devon Mathis

Sexual Harassment
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Devon Mathis is a Republican Assemblyman in California, representing a California Central Valley district. He has faced scrutiny a few times. He was accused of assaulting a woman but the Sacramento police were unable to substantiate the charges. The blogger who first broke the story claimed the police did not contact him and that the woman was not interviewed by the police.

At the same time, he was accused of creating a hostile workplace for women, including sexual harassment and what the investigators called “locker room talk.” He was censured by the California Assembly for that and required to take remedial training. After the allegations made by a resigning staff member went public, a former chief of staff who quit two years earlier sent a letter to the Assembly Rules committee with similar allegations and confirming the hostile work environment.

309: Jason Lewis

Sexual Harassment
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Jason Lewis had a conservative radio show before he ran for Congress. He served one term and lost by 5 points. Then, he ran for Senate, was backed by Trump, and lost by 5 points. In 2011 on his radio show, he mocked the women who recounted how Herman Cain had allegedly sexual harassed them. He even mocked the idea that sexual harassment could be traumatizing. He put on a fake voice and made fun of them. It’s probably why Trump endorsed him.

307: Michael Meredith

Sexual Harassment
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Michael Meredith is one of the Kentucky representatives who settled a sexual harassment suit. According to the deposition, Meredith approached the woman and her supervisor and screamed at them asking why they would not fuck him, begging the woman to have sex with him. She also alleged other explicit federal statements.

306: James DeCesare

Sexual Harassment
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James DeCesare was a Kentucky state representative from 2005 to 2018. He was one of several Kentucky legislators who were accused of sexual harassment who settled a lawsuit with the accuser. He sued the accuser, not because he claimed innocence, but for disclosing the settlement to her supervisor who reported the harassment. They dropped their suit because misbehavior by public officials is information of public concern

298: Rob Brooks

Sexual Harassment
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Rob Brooks is a Republican state representative, re-elected by Wisconsin voters after he was asked to resign y Republican governor Scott Walker. He did step down from his position as Assistant Majority Leader, but refused to resign. This was after he made sexist comments to two women Republicans and racist comments to the only Latina Republican in the caucus. He blamed it on being drunk, but that does not make it okay.

He said he was going to buy drinks for everyone except the only Hispanic legislator in the Republican caucus. Folks originally characterized it as a bad joke. He did buy drinks for other people, but not her. The three women described his comments as inappropriate and offensive. Voters had a choice in the Republican primary and 80% of them voted for the person guilty of sexual harassment.

286: Rick Bertrand

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Rick Bertrand was a Republican Iowas state senator. When a woman won a $2.2 million lawsuit (She settled for $1.75 million) against the Republican caucus and the State of Iowa for the culture of sexual harassment that the Caucus allowed to fester for years and her retaliatory firing just seven hours after filing a memo detailing that culture, Bertrand called for the resignation of the Caucus Leader Bill Dix. Good for him.

But then, there are details of the complaint. There is Bertrand making inappropriate comments and suggesting the wife of Ed Failor Jr might want to join him in bath time. Bad for him.

285: Ed Failor, Jr.

Sexual Harassment
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Failor was included in the sexual harassment lawsuit that entangled so many Iowa Republicans. He was the person she tried to report working conditions to but she believed he was unreceptive. He began criticizing her work after she made her earlier reports of on-the-job harassment. Another personal also reported problems and he did nothing about it.

After Anderson won the lawsuit, there was an internal investigation that was secret, though they claimed the investigation showed “no provable harassment.” It was a cover job.

284: Merlin Bartz

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Merlin E. Bartz was an Iowa state senator until defeated in 2012. In 2015, he was elected to the Worth County Board of Supervisors. He was named in the $2.2 million suit against the Iowa GOP caucus and the State of Iowa for retaliating when Kirsten Anderson filed a memo detailing sexual harassment of the women who worked for the caucus by staffers and senators. She was fired seven hours after submitting her memo. She alleged Bartz commented on what women wore, their hair, clothing, and shoes.

283: Shawn Hamerlinck

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Shawn Hamerlinck was an Iowa state senator for one term. He lost his seat in 2012, a year before Kristen Anderson was fired for complaining about sexual harassment. Nonetheless, he was named in her suit for his inappropriate behavior while in office. He liked to talk about women’s breast, commenting on their size and the hemlines of their skirts. Kristen Anderson was a Republican Caucus communications director who from 2010 to 2013 filed three complaints about rampant sexual harassment of Republican Caucus women employees. When she submitted her third memo, in 2013, she was fired seven hours later. She sued for retaliation and sexual harassment. She won $2.2 million.