“I know that as long as I am in Congress, we’ll live fearful of what might come next and how much it will hurt,” wrote Katie Hill in a statement posted to Twitter
Rep. Katie Hill. Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images Representative Katie Hill resigned on Sunday, amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into her alleged relationships with her legislative director and a staffer on her congressional campaign.
She denies, however, having a sexual relationship with her legislative director, Graham Kelly. Such a relationship would be a violation of House rules — as opposed to the relationship with her campaign staffer, which isn’t technically forbidden, just frowned upon. Additionally, she says that the accusations against her are coming from Heslep, whom she claims abused her and is “determined to try to humiliate me.
She was being investigated to see if she violated new House ethics rules regarding sexual harassment. In 2018, following the start of the Me Too movement, the House of Representatives announced new rules which prohibit sexual relationships between members and their aides.
“Intimate photos of me and another individual were published by Republican operatives on the internet without my consent,” Hill said in a statement last week. She added that she had notified Capitol Hill police of the incident, and that they are investigating the “potential legal violations of those who posted and distributed the photos.”
Hill’s congressional colleagues had mixed reactions to the news. As the scandal unfolded, Democratic Party leadership refrained from commenting on the allegations. Some male Democrats told the Times they felt the allegations received a muted response because Hill is a woman, and that if she were a man, there would have been “an immediate uproar that would most likely have ended in a forced resignation.
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