{"id":75927,"date":"2017-11-22T20:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/degette-says-ex-congressman-filner-tried-to-kiss-her\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T03:25:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T03:25:19","slug":"degette-says-ex-congressman-filner-tried-to-kiss-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/degette-says-ex-congressman-filner-tried-to-kiss-her\/","title":{"rendered":"DeGette says ex-congressman Filner tried to kiss her"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=df6a92cb-80fa-4893-a5c7-3a359a6fb2d5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., says former U.S. Rep. Bob Filner tried to kiss her in an elevator when they served in Congress together. Filner denies the allegation.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., says former U.S. Rep. Bob Filner tried to kiss her in an elevator when they served in Congress together. Filner denies the allegation.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>DENVER \u2013 U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette alleges that former California congressman Bob Filner tried to kiss her in an elevator while they served in Congress together.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Democrat told MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMTP Daily\u201d on Monday that Filner tried to pin her against the elevator\u2019s door and kiss her, but she pushed him away.<\/p>\n<p>DeGette spokeswoman Lynne Weil said Tuesday the incident happened in 2009 or 2010. She said DeGette did not file a complaint but told her chief of staff and husband about what happened at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Filner denied the allegation, saying in an email: \u201cIt never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Filner, a Democrat, served in Congress from 1993 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He resigned as San Diego mayor in 2013 amid harassment allegations. He served three months of house arrest after pleading guilty in three cases \u2013 manhandling a woman at a fundraiser on March 6, 2013, kissing a woman without her consent at a \u201cMeet the Mayor\u201d event at City Hall, and grabbing a woman\u2019s buttocks at a cleanup event.<\/p>\n<p>DeGette said she\u2019s concerned about people\u2019s reluctance to identify sexual harassers in Congress because that allows them to continue the behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was his colleague. He couldn\u2019t take action against me and believe you me, I never got in an elevator with him again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Democrat says she pushed him away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[94,265,524],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-state-government","tag-politics","tag-sexual-assault"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75927"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}