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Female congressional candidate leaves race after sexual harassment allegations resurface
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/15/female-congressional-candidate-leaves-race-after-sexual-harassment-allegations-resurface/
Andrea Ramsey had been running as a Democrat for a congressional seat in Kansas. (YouTube/Nick Decaro)
A Democratic candidate hoping to flip a hotly contested congressional seat in Kansas has dropped out of the race after allegations that she sexually harassed a male subordinate resurfaced during her campaign.
Andrea Ramsey, 57, who was running to unseat Republican Kevin Yoder in a district that includes Kansas City in 2018, is one of the few, if only, women in public life to step down thus far amid a national conversation about sex and power dynamics in the workplace. The vast majority of those accused of sexual misconduct have been men in public-facing industrieDCCC spokeswoman Meredith Kelly said that the organization had not been involved in the primary, financially or otherwise.
“Members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard,” Kelly said in an emailed statement. “If anyone is guilty of sexual harassment or sexual assault, that person should not hold public office.”s like media, Hollywood and politics.
In a defiant letter posted on Facebook Friday, Ramsey defended herself from the charges made by a former subordinate years ago and blamed her decision on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of Democrats in the House. Ramsey said that the DCCC had decided “not to support our promising campaign.”
ry, financially or otherwise.
“Members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard,” Kelly said in an emailed statement. “If anyone is guilty of sexual harassment or sexual assault, that person should not hold public office.”
Andrea Ramsey had been running as a Democrat for a congressional seat in Kansas. (YouTube/Nick Decaro)
A Democratic candidate hoping to flip a hotly contested congressional seat in Kansas has dropped out of the race after allegations that she sexually harassed a male subordinate resurfaced during her campaign.
Andrea Ramsey, 57, who was running to unseat Republican Kevin Yoder in a district that includes Kansas City in 2018, is one of the few, if only, women in public life to step down thus far amid a national conversation about sex and power dynamics in the workplace. The vast majority of those accused of sexual misconduct have been men in public-facing industrieDCCC spokeswoman Meredith Kelly said that the organization had not been involved in the primary, financially or otherwise.
“Members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard,” Kelly said in an emailed statement. “If anyone is guilty of sexual harassment or sexual assault, that person should not hold public office.”s like media, Hollywood and politics.
In a defiant letter posted on Facebook Friday, Ramsey defended herself from the charges made by a former subordinate years ago and blamed her decision on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of Democrats in the House. Ramsey said that the DCCC had decided “not to support our promising campaign.”
ry, financially or otherwise.
“Members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard,” Kelly said in an emailed statement. “If anyone is guilty of sexual harassment or sexual assault, that person should not hold public office.”
We finally got a woman!
This is a win for feminism and the #MeToo movement. 
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