A Nebraska state lawmaker is imploring the Legislature’s Executive Board to hold accountable another lawmaker that she has accused of sexual harassment.

A Nebraska lawmaker implored the Legislature’s Executive Board on Thursday to hold a colleague accountable for invoking her name in a graphic reading on the legislative floor, which some say constitutes sexual harassment.

The decision of whether Republican state Sen. Steve Halloran will face a censure vote of the full Legislature now rests with a group of their colleagues who are mostly men.

“If we don’t move this forward, we are in fact condoning this kind of speech,” Democratic state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh said at a hearing on her resolution. “This has traumatized the public. It has traumatized my family.”

The Executive Board consists of eight men and one woman. All but one are Republican in the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Legislature.

  • @RamblingPanda
    41•3 months ago

    I was employed at a company where the boss harassed his assistant. All but one of the 14 (exclusively male) employees quit their jobs when we found out.

    We’re not all stoic morons free of empathy.

    Edit: I kind of forgot what I wanted to say. Not all men behave like a pack of predators. If they do, it’s their choice, not their nature. Which makes it even worse.