City-County councilor calls on mayor to resign over sex harassment claims against ex-aide

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13 thoughts on “City-County councilor calls on mayor to resign over sex harassment claims against ex-aide

  1. That would require anyone even knowing where the mayor is right now. I would check whatever dance party at a Lawrence school he is pandering at today.

  2. As I read in the Star, issues were reported to the City HR Department. IF THIS IS TRUE, the entire department should be terminated due to such a high level of incompetency.

  3. It also appears that if we had any non biased investigative reporting and journalism in this city, this all could have, and should have, been exposed in 2017. Most surprising is the fact that a first term self proclaimed socialist councilor is the one turning on his own mayor and demanding the mayor resign.

    1. Don’t be too surprised. Brown may have been elected as a Democrat, but he’s never been “on their team” – take a chance to learn more about him.

    2. Makes one miss Gary Welsh, although I wouldn’t have ever described him as non-biased.

  4. Very surprised to see IBJ run this story after working so hard to protect their buddy. As always it is useful to try to imagine an alternate universe. If this was Holcomb or Pence IBJ employees would have made this a weeklong cycle.
    While it is probably just a publicity stunt, Brown brings up an interesting question: who else knew and hid it?

    Come on IBJ. I want to hear from your gaggle of Libs you print on a normal basis. Sheila, Marshaun, the Delaney’s, judge Jane, Michael O’Conner, Kip Tew, Dan Parker. All the original Evan Bayh Mouseketeers.
    Let’s hear them defend their good buddy Joe
    I’ll wait.

    1. This is a weird take.

      You’re surprised that a business paper reports the news?

    2. Mark this day down, I agree with Frank. Don’t knock the IBJ, it’s the last vestige of journalism left in this city.

  5. Perhaps the mayor was informed of all of these allegations at an after hours mixer, in which case he might be able to legitimately claim he was never made aware of it. Let’s give the mayor some grace.

  6. My opinion, which I openly admit is less informed than others, is that this is just one of many shortcomings Mayor Hogsett. I have lived in this city for 42 years and while every administration has had their strengths and weaknesses, this is the most disengaged, ineffective administration of any I have witnessed, regardless of political party. Again, just my opinion.

  7. I guess it’s too much to be expected the City’s HR group take notice of the private sector businesses sexual harassment policies. If you sexually harass any employee, ya get fired. The policy is posted required by law in any workplace generally with 15 or more employees. The City of Indianapolis government certainly employs more than 15 persons. Hogsett should have instructed his HR group to have fired the guy immediately because sexual harassment is illegal. TITLE VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) makes it illegal for employers to allow anyone to be sexually harassed at work by anyone else, regardless of sex, gender, or sexual orientation. Hmmm!!!! Good ole Title VII ….. doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what was going on in the ole mayor’s office. Title VII applies to employers. It is designed to make employers accountable for providing a work environment that is free from harassment and other kinds of discrimination. It does not make it illegal for someone to harass someone else. Instead, it makes it illegal for employers to allow harassment to occur or to fail to stop it once they know it’s happening. But, the usual tap-dancing among the members of the City-County Council and the 25th floor honchos in the CC Building will be spinning the story and the mayor will go scott-free. My view is Joey employed the guy, Joey allowed the harassment and likely took no immediate action to stop it, thus according to TITLE VII Joey H broke federal law. Oh sure, yeh, “he didn’t know anything was going on”. It’s wrong and illegal in the private sector and the same in public sector workplaces, the government jobs.

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