CA-LG: Fiona Ma's (D) Sex Scandal From Five Years Ago Comes Up In the Race for Lieutenant Governor
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A couple of established politicos, state Treasurer Fiona Ma and Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, are looking to swap jobs next year, with Kounalakis running for treasurer, and Ma running for lieutenant governor.
Ahead of the June primary, enemies and opponents of Ma could not help but bring up the messy situation surrounding a sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by an employee against Ma, a lawsuit that included some fairly lurid accusations about Ma's behavior during the early days of the pandemic.
The lawsuit came from former executive director of the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee Judith Blackwell, who shared a hotel room with Ma in Sacramento in early 2020, and later shared an Airbnb with Ma and another employee — which Ma had offered to her so that she did not have to commute an hour each way to work.
Blackwell's claims included that Ma had made repeated sexual advances toward her and "repeatedly exposed her bare backside" for attention while they co-habitated. She also claimed that Ma had given her gifts and once climbed into bed with her while she was trying to sleep. Blackwell refused her advances, she said, and later suffered a stroke. After being out on sick leave for several months, she was fired without being given a reason in January 2021.
https://sfist.com/2026/05/13/fiona-mas-sex-scandal-from-five-years-ago-has-of-course-come-up-in-the-race-for-lieutenant-governor/
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