Michigan lawmaker says senator harassed her at orientation
Source: AP
By DAVID EGGERT
LANSING, Mich. (AP) A Michigan lawmaker alleged Tuesday that a fellow legislator sexually harassed her during a Capitol orientation 14 months ago, coming forward a week after a young female reporter said the same senator made a sexist comment to her before a group of high school boys.
Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Royal Oak Democrat, filed a complaint against Republican Sen. Peter Lucido. She said she introduced herself to him at a training session two days after she defeated an incumbent in the November 2018 election.
He reached out to shake my hand, and with the other hand, held very low on my back, with fingers grazing my hip and upper rear, she wrote in a statement that was included with her complaint. He asked what my name was and where I was from. After a bit of back and forth, he asked, Whod you run against? I responded, I beat Marty Knollenberg. At that moment, still holding his hand on my low back, he looked me up and down, raised his eyebrows, and said, I can see why.
McMorrow, whose allegation was first reported by Crains Detroit Business, told reporters the incident was deflating and that she felt like a piece of meat. ... It implied, You won because of what you look like.
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. Lucido, who is under investigation for allegedly making a sexist comment to a reporter, now faces a sexual harassment complaint from a fellow senator. (AP Photo/David Eggert, File)
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CurtEastPoint
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(14,961 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)irisblue
(33,041 posts)Might work in his planned governors race
ploppy
(2,162 posts)He is so disgusting.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Amazing, it is almost every week one of these thugs is called out, or found out...what a bunch of criminals and low life clowns. What do voters see in these people?
riversedge
(70,381 posts)llmart
(15,563 posts)He really is that ugly in person.
Oh, and he's a criminal too.
captain jack
(316 posts)I suspect they frame it and hang it on their office wall next to pictures of their family and the bachelor's degree in political science.