California Democrats face crisis of credibility after lawsuits

[brooklynite]

The Hill

More than a dozen presidential candidates will descend on San Francisco later this month to woo delegates attending the California Democratic Party’s state convention.

But those candidates may be just a sideshow, as delegates battle between themselves over the future of a party shaken to its core by a series of lawsuits alleging harassment and retaliation.

Amid the speeches and glad-handing, delegates will pick a new state party chair to take over for Eric Bauman,who resigned in November, just weeks after California Democrats swept to historic wins in congressional and state legislative races, in the face of multiple allegations of improper behavior.

In the months since Bauman’s exit, current and former employees have filed three lawsuits against the party alleging sexual harassment and abuse, misconduct and a hostile work environment in which unwanted advances, drinking and retaliation against whistleblowers were common.

“We were really on a high, on a wave,” said Christine Pelosi, chair of the state Democratic Women’s Caucus and daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “Then, there was a real crash around Thanksgiving when the lawsuit happened.”

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1. They should elect Christine Pelosi as the new state chair.

If not her, a high profile Democratic Party woman who will clean out the harassers. There must be zero tolerance toward harassment of any type, on the job, in school, at home, in church, ANYWHERE!!!!