Oregon lawmaker faces expulsion after harassment reports
By ANDREW SELSKYFebruary 5, 2021 GMT
SALEM, Ore. (AP) The conduct committee of the Oregon House of Representatives voted Friday in favor of expelling one of its members for alleged sexual harassment and asked the full House to make a decision.
The fate of Rep. Diego Hernandez, a Democrat from Portland and once considered a rising political star, hangs in the balance.
A resolution passed by the House Committee on Conduct says “Hernandez has engaged in disorderly behavior . and be it further resolved, that with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives, Representative Hernandez be expelled.”
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Oregon state Rep. Diego Hernandez, D-Portland, was sworn into office along with other lawmakers at the Capitol on January 11, 2021. Independent investigators recently completed a report that found Hernandez pressured women with business at the Capitol to rekindle romantic relationships.Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian
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Oregon lawmakers will decide as soon as next week how to respond to a new report that found one of their colleague’s persistent and unwelcome romantic advances made two women reasonably concerned that the male lawmaker might undercut their work at the Capitol if they rejected his attempts to rekindle romantic relationships.
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