Tag Archives: sexual harassment

Illinois state treasurer and candidate for governor Dan Rutherford has been sued by a male former staffer for sexual harassment. The lawsuit comes five weeks before the March 18 gubernatorial primary in which Rutherford was seen as the clear runner-up to frontrunner Winnetka venture capitalist Bruce Rauner. The former employee, Ed Michalowski, accused Rutherford of making unwanted sexual advances against …

NBC San Diego has the story: San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has agreed to resign as part of a deal reached this week with city officials, NBC 7 News has learned. Filner, spotted leaving City Hall with packing boxes Wednesday night, will formally vacate the office following a closed session of City Council Friday, according to several sources. City officials …

He’s still got supporters?

We haven’t heard much from anti-gay crackpot Elaine Donnelly since the repeal of DADT, but today she appears on World Net Daily to gleefully join in on wingnut claims that gay rapists are running rampant in the military. Among the assaults formally reported, 88 percent of reports came from women and 12 percent from men. The numbers are getting dramatically …

Men outnumber women in the armed forces by almost 10-1, but the right wing is going nuts over a recently-released study which shows that more men than women have reported sexual assaults.  The numbers have risen because because the military has been encouraging victims to make reports. Anti-gay weirdo and Porno Pete’s BFF Judith Reisman writes for World Net Daily: …

According to just-revealed court documents, the Family Research Council fired its abstinence program director after she filed a sexual harassment complaint with Washington DC’s Human Rights Commission. DC Gadfly has the scoop: Moira Gaul had a stellar career at the Family Research Council and amassed a perfect employment record until her run-in with her supervisor, a prominent figure in the …

Manhattan’s Sparks Steak House has agreed to pay $600K to male employees who complained that they were sexually harassed by the posh eatery’s male manager. Via press release from the EEOC: According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, 22 male waiters were subjected to harassment based on their sex, chiefly by one male manager, …

Australian Parliament Speaker Peter Slipper, who is married to a woman, has resigned after being sued for sexual harassment by a gay male former staffer to whom Slipper sent obscene text messages.  The offending text messages, revealed as part of court proceedings against Slipper, described female genitalia as looking like “a mussel removed from its shell”. “Look at a bottle …

Toronto Police Inspector Steve Izzett is being sued for sexual harassment by a lesbian subordinate who claims that Izzett tried to “convert her” with a long personal note attached to religious propaganda about the origins of homosexuality. Staff Insp. Steve Izzett, formerly head of the Intelligence Unit, and currently on suspension, was grilled Wednesday during his disciplinary hearing by prosecutor …

“Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure employees into sexual activity. Why don’t they quit once the so-called harassment starts? Obviously the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem? Seeking protection under civil rights legislation is hardly acceptable.” – Ron Paul, from his 1987 book, Freedom …

Atlanta’s Bishop Eddie Long and his hilarious wig are “taking a little time off” from the 25,000-member prosperity gospel megachurch he founded. With his wife’s recent divorce filing, Long will have to console himself with his enormous mansion, his Bentley, and his private jet. Well, that and all those hot boys.

Tom McClusky is the vice president of FRC Action, the Family Research Council’s lobbying arm. As far as I know, this is the first real shot at Cain taken by the far wingnut right since the scandal broke. UNRELATED: On Tuesday McClusky’s brother James was elected to the New York Supreme Court. That’s quite disturbing.

The below column was just tweeted out by Eagle Forum founder Phylis Schlafly. It was authored by Shirley Spellerberg of TexasGOPVote, who is backing Herman Cain. If a man even looked at a feminist in an admiring manner, or called her ‘sweetheart, baby or honey’, the gals would cry ‘Sexual Harassment’ (although I did not see many man-hating feminists that …

The instantly infamous line allegedly uttered by Herman Cain as he pushed his accuser’s head onto his crotch. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

From a just-published study: On its survey of a nationally representative group of 1,965 students, the American Association of University Women, a nonprofit research organization, defined harassment as “unwelcome sexual behavior that takes place in person or electronically.” Over all, girls reported being harassed more than boys — 56 percent compared with 40 percent — though it was evenly divided …

Mark Block says Herman Cain is considering suing Politico for revealing the sexual harassment charges brought against him. Which is hilarious, considering that Cain himself doesn’t deny that the cases actually occurred.

Three hours after a desperate fund-raising plea which blamed racist liberals for his own sex scandal, Herman Cain now says it was Texas Gov. Rick Perry that ratted him out. The Cain campaign points to longtime GOP consultant Curt Anderson, who worked for Cain’s failed 2004 U.S. Senate bid and was debriefed on the harassment allegations by Cain himself. Anderson …

One of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment wants to come forward and tell her side of the story publicly. So says her lawyer. Lawyer Joel P. Bennett called on the National Restaurant Association, where the woman and Cain worked in the late 1990s, to release the woman from her written promise not to talk about the …