Delaware County Democratic Rep. Mike Zabel has been publicly identified by a labor union lobbyist as the representative who she said sexually harassed her in 2019.
A second woman has stepped forward to accuse a Delaware County Democratic Rep. Mike Zabel of sexual harassment and calling on him to resign.medium.comKennedy’s story comes on the heels of Andi Perez, the political director for 32BJ SEIU, on Wednesdayas the male lawmaker she testified about at a January House hearing who had sexually harassed her in 2019.
It went on: “Unfortunately, recent news reports and additional accusations have made it clear that generations of House Democratic leadership have known of Rep. Zabel’s actions but chose to ignore and cover up his behavior instead of taking action to protect the women in this Capitol.” While Perez applauded the new rules that her testimony inspired regarding harassment and discrimination by House members, Kennedy identified some shortcomings, namely one that would make it apply to her own situation as a campaign worker.
Thinking back on his facial expression in response to her reaction, Kennedy said, “It might not have been an accident. I forced myself to believe it was an accident because I wanted this professional experience to be a good one, desperately.” Perez declined to name the legislator she was accusing of sexual misconduct when sharing her story during a Philadelphia hearing that was part of the former House Speaker Mark Rozzi’s statewide listening tour. She said she was discussing legislation with a male lawmaker outside the state Capitol when he “decided to caress my leg while I was wearing a skirt all the while telling me he was impressed by my passion and knowledge of the issues we were discussing.
Rozzi, a survivor of clergy sex abuse as a young teen-ager, said he didn’t take any immediate action after hearing Perez’s story because “as a survivor of sexual abuse myself, I would never deprive a victim of the right to dictate how, when and if they choose to name their attacker. I would never use my office to deprive a victim of that very personal decision.”
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