Posted on 07/29/2010 1:58:39 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
This story has been building for weeks on HillBuzz.org, but the reporting there was often iffy, hazy, and speculative, so I didn't write about it myself. But this week things have come to a head proving the allegations had some merit because now Cook County GOP Executive Director Jeremy Rose has resigned over the allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him.
The story goes that on June 17, 2009, a woman was attending a Chicago Young Republicans meeting in Chicago and when she made to leave for the night was prevented from doing so by Rose. Rose began touching the woman in an unwelcome manner, allegedly took away her cell phone to prevent her from calling a cab, and then sat on her lap to prevent her from leaving. Rose proceeded to suggestively converse with her until she was finally able to extricate herself from the situation. The woman felt threatened and harassed and filed a complaint.
This is all bad enough, but Cook County GOP Chairman Lee Roupas did nothing after being made aware of the allegations. In fact, just the opposite. Roupas promoted the offender to higher positions in the Cook County Party establishment until he was at last appointed Political Director.
And that doesn't end the obfuscation of this event by Cook County Party chief Roupas. It is also alleged that when this situation started to filter out to the party establishment in Chicago (there is both a Cook County GOP organization and a City of Chicago GOP organization both based in Chicago), Roupas tried to obscure the whole mess and actively began attempts to undermine the city party officials looking into the whole thing....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Come on Mobile Vulgus,
YOu are from Illinois,
You know there are only what, 7 maybe 8 republicans in all of Chicago.
Yeah, I know, I know.
There are Republicans in Cook County?
I’m still here, although I may be alone. It is hard to tell as you have to keep being a conservative quiet or the zombies come for you.
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