#MeToo movement lawmaker investigated for sexual misconduct allegations

[oberliner]

SAN FRANCISCO — California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia — whose high-profile advocacy of the #MeToo movement earned her national media notice — is herself the subject of a state legislative investigation in the wake of a report that she sexually harassed and groped a former legislative staffer.

In December, when Time magazine announced that “Silence Breakers” who spoke out against sexual harassment were its Persons of the Year, Garcia’s face was prominently included in the art accompanying the cover story.

But Daniel Fierro of Cerritos told POLITICO that in 2014, as a 25-year-old staffer to Assemblyman Ian Calderon, he was groped by Garcia, a powerful Democratic lawmaker who chairs the Legislative Women’s Caucus and the Natural Resources Committee.

He said she cornered him alone after the annual Assembly softball game in Sacramento as he attempted to clean up the dugout. Fierro, who said Garcia appeared inebriated, said she began stroking his back, then squeezed his buttocks and attempted to touch his crotch before he extricated himself and quickly left.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/cristina-garcia-california-metoo-398985

[DeminPennswoods]

1. Only a matter of time before

a young male staffer/employee/subordinate came forward against a woman politician. Although sexual harassment of men isn't common, it's not non-existent either.

[sunonmars]

2. it happens a lot....

[NCTraveler]

5. No. Not really.

Then again, a lot is extremely ambiguous. I guess it depends on what you are comparing it to when you state “a lot”. An accurate statement if you are comparing it to people getting hit by lightning. Not so much if you are comparing it to women being harassed in the work-place.

[LisaL]

3. Hoisted by her own petard.