CPR: The far-reaching reverberations from the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal continue to roil the state Capitol more than two weeks after 147 women released a letter denouncing a culture of pervasive male harassment and abuse in the Legislature.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Daily News published an editorial that said the only sitting lawmaker known to have been formally rebuked for sexual harassment – Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-Los Angeles (pictured) – should resign.
“While Bocanegra has apologized for his conduct, we believe the best way for him to serve the public at this point is to resign from office,” the Daily News editorial concluded.
The Los Angeles Times story that revealed Bocanegra’s rebuke could also portend headaches for Democratic lawmakers who knew about the incident that got him in trouble but who either kept quiet or actively helped Bocanegra’s career. The story was based on an interview with his victim, Elise Flynn Gyore, who provided a copy of the Assembly Rules Committee letter rebuking Bocanegra.
The incident that led to the complaint to the Rules Committee came at a 2009 Sacramento event in which Bocanegra – then the chief of staff for then-Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, D-Los Angeles – allegedly reached down the blouse of Gyore, then a staffer for state Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello. Bocanegra also acted in a way Gyore characterized as stalking.
A subsequent Sacramento Bee story detailed how Bocanegra’s rebuke didn’t get in the way of his political ascent. He was elected to the Assembly in 2012. Among those who helped him with donations or endorsements: then-Assemblyman Isadore Hall, D-Compton, who served on the Assembly Rules Committee while it reviewed the allegations against Bocanegra, and then-Sen. Calderon, whom Gyore said knew about what Bocanegra had done.
Hall went on to serve in the state Senate before losing a bid for Congress last year. In January, Hall was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, with an annual salary of $142,095. Hall, 45, is expected to seek elected office again in coming years.
Calderon was convicted in 2016 of federal corruption charges and is now serving a 42-month prison sentence. read more
“headaches for Democratic lawmakers”
Yeah, that kind of ‘head’ ache.
This all started with the college 1/5 rape claim. I didn’t believe it because I didn’t hang out in liberal circles in college and in my career. But now I am starting to understand that perhaps 20% of college co-eds have been raped by fellow liberal students and professors.
Keep it coming libs, YOUR culture is the sick one. Not ours. You only dance with your own.
Fl is having some interesting issues, or political strategy.
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2017/11/06/can-florida-senate-police-itself-on-sexual-harassment/
This could not come out at a better time. The whole dam capital is full of democrats and run by democrats. ll this happened under their watch.
Apparently noone willingly sleeps with men on the left.
I don’t understand. If a Democrat does it, it isn’t a crime or wrong. At least that is the way it has been played for the last couple of generations.
I see that License Plate from time to time in Pacific Beach, I always think “cool Clever Plates” and that it sounds like my Kiddo’s … they like it too !
Bunch of leftist tards. At least while they are clawing at each other’s eyes, they aren’t passing shit resolutions, right?
Squeeze a butt: FELONY!
Squirt a butt full of HIV+: meh
Not even being covered by the local networks!!!!!