Kansas Democrat Andrea Ramsey Drops From U.S. House Race Due to Sexual Harassment Allegations
She was going to run for Rep. Kevin Yoder’s seat.
Democrat Andrea Ramsey from Kansas has decided to drop out of the race to challenge Rep. Kevin Yoder’s (R-KS) seat due to sexual harassment accusations. She even had the back of Emily’s List. From The Kansas City Star:
Andrea Ramsey, a Democratic candidate for Congress, will drop out of the race after the Kansas City Star asked her about accusations in a 2005 lawsuit that she sexually harassed and retaliated against a male subordinate who said he had rejected her advances.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the case told The Star that the man reached a settlement with LabOne, the company where Ramsey was executive vice president of human resources. Court documents show that the man, Gary Funkhouser, and LabOne agreed to dismiss the case permanently after mediation in 2006.
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Ramsey will drop out on Friday, her campaign said.
“In its rush to claim the high ground in our roiling national conversation about harassment, the Democratic Party has implemented a zero tolerance standard,” Ramsey said in a statement Friday. “For me, that means a vindictive, terminated employee’s false allegations are enough for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to decide not to support our promising campaign. We are in a national moment where rough justice stands in place of careful analysis, nuance and due process.”
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Ramsey was not a party to the lawsuit or the settlement, although she’s referred to throughout the complaint as Andrea Thomas, her name before she married her husband in late 2006. She denied the allegations to the Star in two interviews over the last two weeks and said the lawsuit is surfacing now for political purposes.
Ramsey repeatedly said that she was not aware of any settlement in the case, but said that if she had been a party to the case she would have opposed settling.
“Had those allegations, those false allegations, been brought against me directly instead of the company I would have fought to exonerate my name. I never would’ve settled,” Ramsey said in an interview on Thursday. “And I would have sued the disgruntled, vindictive employee for defamation.”
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She would have sued the plaintiff for defamation???
In KS, are the allegations in pleadings privileged (non-actionable under defamation laws)?
Teach Democrat Women Not to Rape!
#YesAllDemocratWomen
This is going to hurt the democrats carefully crafted “this is why we need a woman president” narrative.
That’s what all of my hard-core leftie friends said for Hillary and have continued to say is the solution to all of the world’s problems. That must be the talking point because they all sing that exact same tune.
#MeToo
LOL – thanx for showing the rash (yes rash not rush) too judgement