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Zorro

(15,749 posts)
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 10:25 AM Nov 2014

Second Campaign Staffer Accuses GOP Congressional Candidate Carl DeMaio Of Sexual Harassment

Just days before Tuesday’s election in the tight race for San Diego’s 52nd Congressional District seat, a second former staffer for Republican candidate Carl DeMaio is accusing him of sexual harassment.

Navy veteran Justin Harper, 25, said he began interning with DeMaio’s campaign in February and was hired as a regional political director a month later. His job was to make phone calls and knock on doors to ask voters for their support.

Harper said he quit on July 12, two days after an incident involving DeMaio in a restroom at campaign headquarters.

Harper talked with KPBS a week ago by phone, but he requested that his name not be used in a story about the alleged harassment. KPBS declined to publish or air anonymous allegations.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/nov/02/second-campaign-staffer-accuses-gop-congressional-

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Second Campaign Staffer Accuses GOP Congressional Candidate Carl DeMaio Of Sexual Harassment (Original Post) Zorro Nov 2014 OP
kick samsingh Nov 2014 #1
Last-minute allegation roils campaign Zorro Nov 2014 #2
Ew. Well that's creepy. yellowcanine Nov 2014 #3

Zorro

(15,749 posts)
2. Last-minute allegation roils campaign
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 10:43 AM
Nov 2014

Less than 48 hours before Election Day, a second former campaign worker for Carl DeMaio is contending the congressional candidate acted in a sexually inappropriate manner.

A DeMaio spokesman called the claim “an outrageous lie” and said that, according to a KPBS report, the campaign manager for DeMaio’s opponent, Democratic Rep. Scott Peters, had a role in helping surface the new allegation.

The former aide, Justin Harper, told U-T San Diego Sunday evening that in July he was in a restroom and noticed DeMaio behind him, turned around and saw DeMaio holding his exposed genitals.

Harper, a Navy veteran, said he was shocked and quickly exited. No one else was present.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/nov/02/demaio-allegation-harassment-election/

Even the San Diego Union-Tribune, a notorious Republican newsrag and DeMaio supporter, are reporting this latest accusation. But of course their spin is to blame DeMaio's opponent.

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