{"id":15632,"date":"2014-10-22T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-22T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:49:16","slug":"ca52-carl-demaios-campaign-yuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/22\/ca52-carl-demaios-campaign-yuck\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-52: Carl DeMaio’s Campaign. Yuck."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Openly gay Republican accused of sexual harassment<\/i><\/p>\n

by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n

I’ve not really mentioned the burning wreck that is Carl DeMaio’s 2014 Congressional campaign. But, boy is it in fire right now. Voice of San Diego has a full timeline<\/a> of the various scandals with a very fitting opening sentence:<\/p>\n

In 10 years covering San Diego politics, including the one where Bob Filner was mayor, I have never seen a more bizarre political scandal than the one surrounding Carl DeMaio’s congressional campaign over the last few weeks. (VoSD<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article follows the rather bizarre twists and turns of a plagiarism story turning into a sexual harassment story. Because it is two gay men, the media has been somewhat confused how to play this whole thing, with reactions landing all over the place. But, as a gay man myself, I can think of no reason why it should be handled differently than any other case. Sexual harassment is just never ok.<\/p>\n

But the long and short of it is that after the plagiarism story, a staffer, Todd Bosnich, got the blame and was ultimately fired. But not immediately, as he stuck around a few days on the campaign. According to Bosnich, somewhere during his time on the campaign, he was rather aggressively harassed. I’ll let you go to the original article<\/a> for all the sordid details and the full timeline.<\/p>\n

Well, the Voice of SD article would have been a complete timeline, except the latest scandal DeMaio got caught up in this week:<\/p>\n

On Jan. 22, DeMaio sent an email to two members of his staff, campaign spokesperson Dave McCulloch and then-policy director Todd Bosnich (Bosnich has accused DeMaio of sexually harassing him and trying to buy his silence). The email’s subject line is “Kate Lyon” and includes a photo of an overweight woman wearing a bra and eating what looks to be a Twinkie chicken nugget. (The woman in the photo is not Lyon.) Based on the email’s metadata, it appears to be authentic.<\/p>\n

Kate Lyon is the deputy campaign manager for Scott Peters, the 52nd District congressional representative whom DeMaio’s challenging in the upcoming election. (CityBeat<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stay Classy, Carl DeMaio.<\/p>\n

This is definitely a swing district, and Scott Peters still has a tough race on his plate. But, in a city that is still recovering from a sexual harassment story involving its former mayor, more inappropriate behavior is not really a good asset in prospective public servants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Openly gay Republican accused of sexual harassment<\/i><\/p>\n

by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n

I’ve not really mentioned the burning wreck that is Carl DeMaio’s 2014 Congressional campaign. But, boy is it in fire right now. Voice of San Diego has a full timeline<\/a> of the various scandals with a very fitting opening sentence:<\/p>\n

In 10 years covering San Diego politics, including the one where Bob Filner was mayor, I have never seen a more bizarre political scandal than the one surrounding Carl DeMaio’s congressional campaign over the last few weeks. (VoSD<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article follows the rather bizarre twists and turns of a plagiarism story turning into a sexual harassment story. Because it is two gay men, the media has been somewhat confused how to play this whole thing, with reactions landing all over the place. But, as a gay man myself, I can think of no reason why it should be handled differently than any other case. Sexual harassment is just never ok.<\/p>\n

But the long and short of it is that after the plagiarism story, a staffer, Todd Bosnich, got the blame and was ultimately fired. But not immediately, as he stuck around a few days on the campaign. According to Bosnich, somewhere during his time on the campaign, he was rather aggressively harassed. I’ll let you go to the original article<\/a> for all the sordid details and the full timeline.<\/p>\n

Well, the Voice of SD article would have been a complete timeline, except the latest scandal DeMaio got caught up in this week:<\/p>\n

On Jan. 22, DeMaio sent an email to two members of his staff, campaign spokesperson Dave McCulloch and then-policy director Todd Bosnich (Bosnich has accused DeMaio of sexually harassing him and trying to buy his silence). The email’s subject line is “Kate Lyon” and includes a photo of an overweight woman wearing a bra and eating what looks to be a Twinkie chicken nugget. (The woman in the photo is not Lyon.) Based on the email’s metadata, it appears to be authentic.<\/p>\n

Kate Lyon is the deputy campaign manager for Scott Peters, the 52nd District congressional representative whom DeMaio’s challenging in the upcoming election. (CityBeat<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stay Classy, Carl DeMaio.<\/p>\n

This is definitely a swing district, and Scott Peters still has a tough race on his plate. But, in a city that is still recovering from a sexual harassment story involving its former mayor, more inappropriate behavior is not really a good asset in prospective public servants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[417,10688],"class_list":["post-15632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-417","tag-10688"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-448","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}