Jim Friedrich was an analyst working for Iowa Senate Republicans on oversight issues until he resigned in 2017 after his sexual harassment cost taxpayers $2.2 million. In 2013, Kirsten Anderson, at the time a Republican Caucus communications director, submitted a memo about how sexual harassment created a hostile workplace. She was fired seven hours after she submitted the memo.
Anderson sued, arguing that she was terminated in retaliation for her complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace. This was her third complaint since 2010.
While the lawsuit was against the Senate Republican Caucus and the State of Iowa, Friedrich was a big part of the complaint, asking women about their sex lives, calling them prudes if they refused to answer, He used racist and sexist slurs in the office including the most taboo words.
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20 July 2017