Post by Logan on Jan 26, 2016 1:54:36 GMT -6
Sen. Pam Roach booted off sex-trafficking panel for ‘victim-blaming,’ other insults
OLYMPIA — Heaping another episode onto her pile of rebukes from legislative leaders, state Sen. Pam Roach has been kicked off a human-trafficking task force after complaints that she belittled and verbally abused victims of sex trafficking at a meeting this past month.
In a scathing letter sent Monday, Lt. Gov. Brad Owen said he was removing Roach, R-Sumner, from the task force after receiving “numerous complaints” about her conduct at a Dec. 14 meeting of the panel.
Owen, a Democrat, said in the letter while he did not have the authority to boot Roach from the Senate, he believed she should be removed from that body based on her lengthy record of “egregious and offensive behavior” toward staff, colleagues and the public.
Roach strongly denied the allegations and called Owen’s letter “one big fricking hit piece.” One fellow lawmaker on the task force came to her defense and called Owen’s letter an overreaction.
Continued at www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/sen-pam-roach-kicked-off-sex-trafficking-panel-after-insulting-victims/ .
OLYMPIA — Heaping another episode onto her pile of rebukes from legislative leaders, state Sen. Pam Roach has been kicked off a human-trafficking task force after complaints that she belittled and verbally abused victims of sex trafficking at a meeting this past month.
In a scathing letter sent Monday, Lt. Gov. Brad Owen said he was removing Roach, R-Sumner, from the task force after receiving “numerous complaints” about her conduct at a Dec. 14 meeting of the panel.
Owen, a Democrat, said in the letter while he did not have the authority to boot Roach from the Senate, he believed she should be removed from that body based on her lengthy record of “egregious and offensive behavior” toward staff, colleagues and the public.
Roach strongly denied the allegations and called Owen’s letter “one big fricking hit piece.” One fellow lawmaker on the task force came to her defense and called Owen’s letter an overreaction.
Continued at www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/sen-pam-roach-kicked-off-sex-trafficking-panel-after-insulting-victims/ .