LETTER DISPARAGING MS. BOYLEN
VIOLATED ITS OWN RULES.
>> THE CULTURE WITHIN THE
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER CONTRIBUTED TO
THE CONDITIONS THAT ALLOWED THE
SEXUAL HARASSING CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNOR TO OCCUR AND PERSIST.
GOVERNOR TO OCCUR AND PERSIST.
THE CULTURE ALSO, THROUGH
VIOLATIONS OF THEIR OWN POLICIES
AND THROUGH UNLAWFUL
RETALIATION.
WHAT WAS THE CULTURE?
WORDS THAT WITNESSES HAVE USED
REPEATEDLY TO DESCRIBE IT
INCLUDE, TOXIC, HOSTILE,
ABUSIVE.
OTHERS USE WORDS LIKE, FEAR,
INTIMIDATION, BULLYING,
VINDICTIVE.
AS ONE SENIOR STAFFER STATED
BLUNTLY, AS THE SEXUAL
HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS BECAME
PUBLIC IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR IN
TEXT EXCHANGES WITH OTHERS IN
THE ADMINISTRATION, I QUOTE,
HOPEFULLY WHEN THIS IS ALL DONE,
PEOPLE WILL REALIZE THE CULTURE,
EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE SEXUAL
HARASSMENT STUFF, IS NOT
SOMETHING YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH.
YOU CANT BERATE AND TERRIFY
PEOPLE
PEOPLE 24/7.
CLOSED QUOTE.
ITS A CULTURE WHERE YOU COULD
NOT SAY NO TO THE GOVERNOR, AND
IF YOU UPSET HIM, HIM OR HIS
SENIOR STAFF, YOU WILL BE
WRITTEN OFF, CASTS ASIDE, OR
WORSE.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE
WITNESSES DESCRIBED A CULTURE
THAT NORMALIZED AND OVERLOOKED
EVERY DAY FLIRTATIONS, PHYSICAL
INTIMACY, AND INAPPROPRIATE
COMMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR.
ONE SENIOR STAFFER TESTIFIED
THAT AT A WORK EVENT SHE SAT ON
THE GOVERNORS LAP.
ANOTHER STAFFER SAID SHE
RECALLED KISSING THE GOVERNOR ON
THE LIPS.
THE GOVERNOR TESTIFIED THAT
THOSE THINGS MAY HAVE HAPPENED
WITH SENIOR STAFFERS.
ONE COMPLAINANT DESCRIBED HER
INTERACTIONS WITH THE GOVERNOR
BY SAYING THEY WERE, QUOTE,
STRANGE AND UNCOMFORTABLE.
BUT IT WAS LIKE THE TWILIGHT
ZONE, THE TYPICAL RULES DO NOT
APPLY.
YOU SHOULD JUST VIEW IT AS A
COMPLIMENT IF THE GOVERNOR FINDS
YOU AESTHETICALLY PLEASING
ENOUGH.
CLOSED QUOTE.
THE COEXISTENCE IN THE EXECUTIVE
CHAMBER, THE EXECUTIVE CHAMBERS
CULTURE OF FEAR AND FLIRTATION,
INTIMIDATION AND INTIMACY, ABUSE
AND AFFECTION CREATED A WORK
ENVIRONMENT RIPE FOR HARASSMENT.
AS ANOTHER COMPLAINANT
TESTIFIED, AND I QUOTE, WHAT
MAKES IT SO HARD TO DESCRIBE
EVERY SINGLE INAPPROPRIATE
INCIDENT IS THE CULTURE OF THE
PLACE.
ON THE ONE HAND HE MAKES ALL
THIS INAPPROPRIATE AND CREEPY
BEHAVIOR NORMAL, AND LIKE YOU
SHOULD NOT COMPLAIN.
ON THE OTHER HAND YOU SEE PEOPLE
GETTING PUNISHED AND SCREAMED AT
IF YOU DO ANYTHING WHERE YOU
DISAGREE WITH HIM OR HIS TOP
AIDES.
I REALLY JUST WANTED TO GO TO
WORK AND BE RECOGNIZED FOR MY
WORK AND NOTHING ELSE.
CLOSED QUOTE.
CHARLOTTE BENNETT, THE
COMPLAINANT MS. CLARK MENTIONED, WHO WAS TRANSFERRED AFTER SHE
WHO WAS TRANSFERRED AFTER SHE REPORTED EVEN AINAPPROPRIATE COM
REPORTED EVEN AINAPPROPRIATE COM
TO SENIOR STAFF, AND ENTEX MESSI
MESSAGES, DEHUMANIZING,
TRAUMATIZING.
THEN HE CAME ON TO ME.
I WAS SCARED TO IMAGINE WHAT
WOULD HAPPEN IF I REJECTED HIM,
SO I DISAPPEARED INSTEAD.
MY TIME IN PUBLIC SERVICE ENDED
BECAUSE HE WAS BORED AND LONELY.
IT STILL BREAKS MY HEART.
THATS A QUOTE FROM A TEXT THAT
MS. BENNETT WROTE.
THE CULTURE, THIS CULTURE MADE
IT ALL THE MORE DIFFICULT IF NOT
IMPOSSIBLE FOR COMPLAINANTS TO
REPORT THE HARASSMENT FOR WHICH