General Discussion

back in the 60s and up to the mid-90s before (major) corporations began enforcing harassment policies in the workplace. As a woman, I think AC did make highly improper comments. Whether it rose to the level of actual harassment, I'm not sure. For a lot of working women in their 20s and up to their early 40s, they probably haven't ever experienced the kind of rampant boorish male behaviors that someone my age experienced in my youth. I look back on some of the crap that took place in several of the workplaces I've had experience in, and I'm astonished by the recollections. I think some of AC's staff are younger by a couple or more decades than he is, and they simply haven't had to deal with this kind of behavior and comments before.

Do I think he should resign? No, I don't. It appears to me that AC's and Newsome's current struggle in CA with Covid-19 restrictions and the recall attempt, are yet another right wing rethuglican attempt to kneecap the most high profile Dems they can in order flatten the playing field for the likes of Hawley and Cruz et al, and unlike Al Franken, neither should voluntarily give up their jobs.

ETA: If it's true that he planted a kiss - a full-on forceful kiss on the mouth - on one of his assistants/aides, that was out of bounds, and it would in any environment be characterized as harassment.