Michigan lawmaker apologizes for comments to female reporter

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


David Eggert, Associated Press
Updated 12:29 pm CST, Wednesday, January 15, 2020



Photo: David Eggert, AP

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, file photo, State Sen. Peter Lucido, R-Shelby Township, speaks after a news conference at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. The lawmaker apologized Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, a day after telling a young female reporter that a group of high school boys could "have a lot of fun" with her. Lucido, issued a short statement addressing a story in which a Michigan Advance journalist wrote of an incident that occurred outside the Senate chamber Tuesday.


LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker apologized Wednesday a day after telling a young female reporter that a group of high school boys could “have a lot of fun” with her.

State Sen. Pete Lucido, a 59-year-old Republican from Macomb County's Shelby Township, issued a short statement addressing a story in which a Michigan Advance journalist wrote of an incident that occurred outside the Senate chamber Tuesday.

Allison Donahue, 22, asked Lucido for an interview. He said he could talk after honoring roughly 30 students from De La Salle, an all-boys Catholic high school in suburban Detroit from which Lucido graduated.

“You should hang around! You could have a lot of fun with these boys, or they could have a lot of fun with you," he said. The teens laughed, according to Donahue's first-person account in the Advance, a nonprofit news site that covers politics and policy.



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Michigan-lawmaker-apologizes-for-comments-to-14977353.php

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All the shopping carts at the most popular grocery store in Lucido’s 36th District featured a placard for his law firm that mirrored the Lucido campaign logo.

[Paladin]

1. I wonder if that fuckhead legislator has any daughters.

If he does, I feel sorry for them.

[dalton99a]

3. Two daughters:

http://gophouse.org/december-2018-e-newsletter/

Peter and Ann Marie’s three children—Briana, Nina, and Peter III—all attended the University of Michigan. “We are true blue Wolverines,” Peter states. Briana holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from U of M, and a Masters Degree in Public Health from Emory University. She currently lives in Gevena, Switzerland, working for the World Health Organization. Nina’s Bachelor of Sociology is also from U of M. She recently completed her Juris Doctor at Michigan State University and is currently working for the Macomb County regional office of a large law firm. Peter III is a senior at U of M, studying Sociology and Political Science.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. A punchable face if ever I saw one! 🤬

[Grokenstein]

10. Get a load of this one. Stompable.

Straight-up rat-like. No offense to actual rats. (Pic swiped from TalkingPointsMemo.)



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[Karadeniz]

4. Good lord! The barbarians are at the gate!

[marble falls]

5. That was almost an apology.

[PatSeg]

6. Are all republican male politicians

ugly and repulsive? Maybe that is why they are so demeaning to women, because women can't stand them.

[llmart]

7. OMG!

This guy is a real prick. He characterizes what he said as a "misunderstanding". I hope this gets a lot of press in this state. He needs to be gone.

Those pictures of him creep me out. He's part of the good ole' boys network that helped to put Trump in office.

[greenjar_01]

8. 22 year old reporter leered at by this dirtbag who's encouraging a bunch of high school boys to join

in.

As they say, DEPLORABLE.

[rockfordfile]

9. Another un-American right-wing pos. That guy will be in more trouble

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Who does he think he is? Justice Kavanaugh? nt

[mpcamb]

12. Why do I even check to see if there's an R by his name anymore?