State Sen. Steve Halloran repeatedly name-checkied a fellow senator while reading a graphic account of rape from a best-selling memoir on the floor of the Legislature.
The investigation into state Sen. Steve Halloran of Hastings by the Legislature’s Executive Board was announced Wednesday by Sen. Ray Aguilar, a fellow Republican and chairman of the board. Aguilar said he filed the harassment complaint himself after witnessing Halloran’s remarks on the floor Monday night.“This formal investigation will be thorough and by the book,” Aguilar read from a statement on the floor.
Halloran said legislative rules on harassment investigations prevent him from commenting on the probe, “other than to note I’ll defend myself.”During a debate on a bill targeting obscenity in libraries, Halloran read a graphic excerpt from the memoir “Lucky” by Alice Sebold, which recounts Sebold’s experience of sexual violence when she was 18, and invoked the name “Sen. Cavanaugh” several times, appearing to reference Democratic state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, a female colleague.
“You don’t know anything about anyone else’s life, and I can tell you that women in this body have been subject to sexual violence,” Machaela Cavanaugh responded immediately after Halloran’s reading on the floor. “I didn’t know you were capable of such cruelty!”in the officially nonpartisan Legislature. One of the most vocal has been Republican Sen. Julie Slama, who has called on Halloran to resign.
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