XPost: dc.romance, wa.politics, alt.women.attitudes
XPost: talk.politics.guns

According to Anaya’s letter, her first concerning encounter with
Ivey-Soto was in 2015 when Anaya worked for then-congresswoman and
current Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Anaya wrote that she and Ivey-
Soto were separately attending a reception hosted by the National
Education Association. When she and Ivey-Soto were alone at a
cocktail table, Anaya said, Ivey-Soto allegedly “slid [his] hand
across [her] side and disgustingly groped and pinched [her]
buttocks.”

“I did not know what to do or what to say – I just hoped that it
would not happen again,” she wrote.

Then, Anaya wrote, towards the beginning of the legislative session
in January 2022, she and Ivey-Soto met to discuss a voting rights
bill that Anaya was lobbying to pass. She alleges that Ivey-Soto was
drinking wine and then pushed her to drink more than she was
comfortable with. During that conversation, Anaya wrote, she
confronted Ivey-Soto about the groping incident six years prior. She
wrote that he acknowledged the incident, but stopped short of
accepting responsibility.

“You were drinking throughout our conversation,” Anaya wrote. “When
you emptied a bottle of wine into my glass and I said it was too
much, you told me it was not too much, and then forcefully told me
to drink it. When I left, you asked if you could give me a ‘non-
creepy hug’. I quickly left your office.”

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)