Just to be clear, Rep. Conyers is an icon while Rep. Ruben Kihuen is a rising star.
This one's got everything. Sexual harassment and a Dem politician who came to this country as an illegal alien.
Congressman Ruben Kihuen spoke at the DNC where he declared, "We Are All Dreamers". Maybe we are. But some of us dream of very different things.
Samantha, whose last name BuzzFeed News is withholding at her request, began working for Rep. Ruben Kihuen early in his campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy in December 2015 and quit by April 7, 2016. Starting in February of that year, Samantha, who was 25 at the time, said Kihuen, who was then 35 and still competing in the primary race, propositioned her for dates and sex despite her repeated rejections. On two occasions, she says he touched her thighs without consent.
While Samantha was uncertain how she could report her experience, she said she spoke with a contact at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to explain why she was quitting so abruptly, and told the staffer that Kihuen had done things that made her uncomfortable.
“I didn’t know what they could do, but I felt like I had to let someone know,” she said.
The person she spoke with at the DCCC, a midlevel staffer who no longer works there, confirmed a conversation took place. He said he did not recall her telling him any specifics, only that she quit because she felt uncomfortable with Kihuen, and he did not believe that she wanted the DCCC to escalate it. He spoke only with a colleague — another midlevel staffer who is also no longer there — about the call.
Chase, the former campaign manager, said that he was “deeply disappointed and heartbroken by Ruben's actions."
"I believe Samantha and wish I had known her specific allegations when I confronted Ruben after she left the campaign or in time to stop what took place," he said.
According to Rep. Khiunen, "I have spent my fifteen years in public service fighting for women’s equality, and I will continue to do so.”
When he wasn't fighting for "women's equality", he was fighting for illegal aliens.
For the 2016 election, Nevada Rep. Ruben Kihuen was one of only several Democrats to unseat a House Republican. His story is similar to those of millions of Americans — his family came to the U.S. seeking a better life — but on Nov. 8, 2016, he became the first formerly undocumented person to be elected to Congress (along with New York Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who was elected the same day).
And soon there might only be one.