{"id":1720787,"date":"2022-11-02T05:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720787"},"modified":"2022-11-02T05:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:03:50","slug":"tina-kotek-says-shes-a-defender-of-women-she-has-a-history-of-ignoring-sexual-harassment-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tina-kotek-says-shes-a-defender-of-women-she-has-a-history-of-ignoring-sexual-harassment-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Kotek Says She\u2019s a Defender of Women. She Has a History of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Complaints."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftina-kotek-says-shes-a-defender-of-women-she-has-a-history-of-ignoring-sexual-harassment-complaints%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720787&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">A 2018 investigation found the Democratic gubernatorial candidate fostered a &#8216;sexually hostile environment&#8217; in the Oregon statehouse<\/p>\n<p>    Democratic Oregon gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/josh-christenson\/\" title=\"Posts by Josh Christenson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Josh Christenson<\/a> \u2022 November 2, 2022 5:00 am  <\/p>\n<p>Tina Kotek has built an image as a protector of &#8220;women&#8217;s rights,&#8221; touting her efforts to end workplace discrimination and defend survivors of sexual assault throughout her career.\u00a0 But a review of her time as Oregon House speaker reveals a record of neglect and disregard for sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opb-imgserve-production.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/original\/080118_commissioners_complaint_1533155808190.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Complaints<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/arc-wordpress-client-uploads\/wweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/15180556\/Courtney-Kotek-Complaint3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuits<\/a> filed at the height of the #MeToo movement allege that Kotek for years ignored accusations of sexual misconduct against state lawmakers. One of those complaints alleges that a lawmaker groped female state senators as well as interns\u2014and that Kotek looked the other way. Another charges that a state representative told a young woman working in the legislature &#8220;to get ready for a birthday spanking,&#8221; according to notes Kotek took about the incident, but that Kotek did nothing. And an investigation by Oregon&#8217;s labor commissioner in 2018 found Kotek had <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/9c6eed210a794163abd5fc792b8d47fd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fostered<\/a> a &#8220;sexually hostile environment in the Capitol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That record is a far cry from the pro-woman advocacy she&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinafororegon.com\/priorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaned on<\/a>\u00a0throughout her gubernatorial run, during which she has told voters that she has &#8220;fought to advance equity for women&#8221; and described herself as a &#8220;leader with a proven record of standing up for women&#8217;s rights and protections.&#8221;\u00a0With a week to go until Election Day, Kotek is in a close race against Republican opponent Christine Drazan, with the <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> average giving Drazan a 1.7-point lead. Kotek served as House speaker from 2013 to 2022, when she announced her run for governor.<\/p>\n<p>But Jackie Sandmeyer, an official tasked with handling misconduct complaints in the Oregon legislature, said Kotek was willing to do anything to keep her office quiet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kotek thinks she is a tough lesbian, but really she will try to bribe you to keep you quiet,&#8221; Sandmeyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/pdf\/Tort%20Claim%20Notice%2012%206%202021_1638812921602.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> her successor as legislative equity officer, Nate Monson. &#8220;She&#8217;ll offer you whatever you want\u2014money, resources for the office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kotek allowed female interns to work for state senator Jeff Kruse (R.) even though she knew he had a history of groping female colleagues, the labor commissioner&#8217;s investigation revealed. State senator Sara Gelser had accused Kruse in 2016 of sexually harassing her before the interns were hired at the close of the year. Kruse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Kotek has built an image as a protector of &#8220;women&#8217;s rights,&#8221; touting her efforts to end workplace discrimination and defend survivors of sexual assault throughout her career.\u00a0 But a review of her time as Oregon House speaker reveals a record of neglect and disregard for sexual harassment.<br \/>\nThe post Tina Kotek Says She\u2019s a Defender of Women. She Has a History of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Complaints. appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":1711071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}