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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is lucky he’s a Democrat — otherwise Lindsey Boylan’s charge that he “sexually harassed” her might lead to political challenges and media shame. “Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched,” the former Cuomo aide, now running for Manhattan beep, tweeted. It’s a serious charge, one Cuomo flatly denies. The details? Boylan won’t say. She cites no specific allegations and provides no evidence. She won’t even respond to requests for further comment. “I have no interest in talking to journalists,” she declares. “I am about validating the experience of countless women and making...

SACRAMENTO - The state denied Michelle Delk a teaching credential for the same reason she was so highly regarded in the classroom: her criminal past. But now Delk, a former drug addict who turned her life around and taught substance-abuse courses to inmates at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, is trying to make another comeback. And she's counting on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help her do it. If the governor pardons the most serious felony on her record -- a burglary conviction from nine years ago -- Delk could get her adult education teaching credential and return to the...

Just three days before the 1993 Super Bowl game, a news conference was called in Pasadena. There Sheila Kuehl, an attorney for the California Women’s Law Center, stepped to the podium to report some shocking news: according to a study by Old Dominion University, emergency room admissions of women rose by 40% following football games won by the Washington Redskins. Media representatives got the warning that Super Bowl Sunday is “the biggest day of the year for violence against women.” Soon a media advisory went out warning women, “Don’t remain at home with him during the game.” The next morning,...

Assembly settles sex complaint Ex-aide accepts $118,000 to end case alleging hostile environment. By Jim Sanders -- Bee Capitol BureauPublished 2:15 am PST Saturday, January 8, 2005 A former aide who complained that Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn created a hostile work environment, partly by discussing intimate details of her sex life, has been paid more than $118,000 by the California Assembly to resolve the matter. Erika Weaver-Taylor received more than $66,000 in salary for 10 months of paid administrative leave, which ended Dec. 31. The settlement includes nearly $52,000 for legal fees, health benefits, and severance and vacation pay, according to...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly has agreed to pay $49,000 to a former aide to Rebecca Cohn who accused the Democratic legislator from Campbell of creating an uncomfortable, sexually charged work environment. In all, the Assembly will have paid Cohn's former press secretary, Erika Weaver-Taylor, $119,000 in taxpayer funds to stay home from work for 10 months. The settlement, made public Friday, ends a yearlong investigation by a key legislative committee. But it does not end the public dispute. The legal resolution allowed Cohn and Weaver-Taylor to speak out for the first time in months about the allegations. Cohn called...

SACRAMENTO - Frustrated by the slow pace of a legislative investigation, an aide to Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn has filed a harassment complaint against her with state and federal officials. Cohn's press secretary, Erika Weaver-Taylor, alleges that the Campbell Democrat created a ``hostile working environment'' and that Cohn subjected her to ``verbal, physical and visual'' harassment. After Weaver-Taylor reported her concerns to a key Assembly committee last December, ``privileges and job duties were taken away,'' according to the complaint, filed Friday with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing in San Jose and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The...

--snip-- In interviews with a rules committee investigator, the two aides said they accompanied Cohn to the shoot. The legislator asked Weaver-Taylor to help her change outfits and Wilhite to hang clothes and lay out her undergarments, which Wilhite said made her uncomfortable, according to signed summaries obtained by the Mercury News. The aides also told the investigator that Cohn solicited comments about her provocative clothing and discussed her sex life, which they considered inappropriate. At least three other Cohn staffers were interviewed by the committee about other issues. Cohn, 50, is running for a third term against Republican Ernie...

<p>Staffers accuse lawmaker Cohn of harassment Assembly panel is reviewing allegations that she created a hostile workplace.</p> <p>Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn is under investigation by a key Assembly committee on claims that she sexually harassed staffers in ways ranging from discussing her sex life to asking aides during a photo shoot to handle her bras and underwear.</p>

<p>SACRAMENTO - A key Assembly committee is investigating complaints by at least five legislative staffers to Assembly member Rebecca Cohn, including two sparked by a photo shoot for San Jose Magazine in which Cohn allegedly asked aides to handle her bras and underwear.</p>