b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 1 A woman who previously worked as the finance director for Rep. Ruben Kihuen
(D-Nev.) is alleging she was harassed by the Nevada Democrat while working
on his 2016 campaign, according to a report from BuzzFeed.
The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Friday
asked the congressman, who denies the accusations, to step down.
The woman in Buzzfeed's story is identified only as Samantha. She asked for
her last name to be withheld from the story, in which she accused the
freshman congressman of repeatedly asking her on dates and for sex, even
though she rejected his advances. She said he also touched her thighs twice
without her consent.
Samantha alleged that on Feb. 6, 2016, she attended a fundraiser with Kihuen
. At the end of the event, she said that Kihuen walked her to her car. She
recalled him saying, “You look really good, I'd like to take you out if you
didn’t work for me.”
She said she told Kihuen she had a boyfriend and got in the car. She said
that the advances escalated after that fundraiser and asked her if she ever
“cheated on her boyfriend.”
A few weeks later on Feb. 19, she attended a meeting at a hotel with Kihuen
and Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-Calif.). While in an elevator, Samantha said
Kihuen said the two of them should get a hotel room together, which she
rejected. When driving back from the meeting, she alleges that he touched
her thigh and asked about whether she’d ever cheated on her boyfriend.
Samantha said she texted a friend about the alleged harassment a month after
she left the campaign. She detailed some of the instances to her friend in
those conversations and BuzzFeed said it verified the screenshots of those
text messages.
She said those advances happened while Kihuen was competing in the
Democratic primary. She worked for the freshman congressman on his
competitive congressional campaign in December 2015 and quit in early April
2016.
The woman told BuzzFeed that she felt uncomfortable raising the issue to
campaign leadership and decided to quit working on the campaign.
Samantha said she spoke with someone at the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee (DCCC), the House Democrats’ campaign arm, to say why
she was leaving and explain that Kihuen’s actions made her feel
uncomfortable.
“I didn’t know what they could do, but I felt like I had to let someone
know,” she told BuzzFeed.
Samantha spoke with a staffer at the DCCC who no longer works there but
confirmed the conversation to BuzzFeed. The staffer, described as mid-level,
told Buzzfeed he doesn’t remember the details of the conversation and only
told one other staffer who held a similar position.
The second person told Kihuen’s campaign manager, Dave Chase, about
Samantha’s conversation after she quit. Chase confirmed to Buzzfeed that
the DCCC called and told him she quit because she was “uncomfortable” and
also said that he addressed Kihuen about it. Kihuen reportedly denied the
accusations.
“The staff member in question was a valued member of my team. I sincerely
apologize for anything that I may have said or done that made her feel
uncomfortable,” Kihuen said in a statement provided to BuzzFeed.
“I take this matter seriously as it is not indicative of who I am," he
continued. "I was raised in a strong family that taught me to treat women
with the utmost dignity and respect. I have spent my fifteen years in public
service fighting for women’s equality, and I will continue to do so.” | u***n 发帖数: 21026 | | d******y 发帖数: 2787 | 3 可以了,本届最年轻的都33了,还是女的
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