L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has lobbied 'dozens' of senators to approve his appointment as ambassador to India, while a GOP senator has received new allegations of sexual harassment against a former top Garcetti aide.
With less than a month to go before he leaves office, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pressing his effort to get the U.S. Senate to, a fraught campaign complicated by a Republican senator whose office is trying to renew doubts about whether the mayor and his staff mishandled sexual harassment allegations against a top aide.
The White House has continued to express support for Garcetti, who backed the former vice president when he appeared a long shot for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.Is it now or never for Garcetti and India? The White House and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will determine whether and when to call a vote on the India nomination. With a crush of more pressing business facing Congress — including raising the debt ceiling to keep the government functioning — the Garcetti vote could be put off until next year.
remaining on the fence about the Garcetti nomination and not anxious for the matter to come to a vote. Garcetti has been stymied, at least in part, by Ernst’s fellow Iowa Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, whose staff has focused on allegations that the mayor ignored allegations that a former top aide, Rick Jacobs, sexually harassed others in the mayor’s office., Grassley’s office contended that allegations of sexual harassment against Jacobs, a former deputy mayor, were “pervasive, widespread and notorious.
The activist said the behavior occurred when he met with Jacobs on municipal business and at holiday parties that Jacobs held at his home. In the last of the instances, Jacobs “squeezed” his buttocks when he met the Garcetti aide at his City Hall office.
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