Paul B. "Skip" Stam Jr. was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's 37th House district,including constituents in Wake County. An attorney from Apex,North Carolina,Stam was elected to his seventh (non-consecutive) term in the state House of Representatives in 2012. He was first elected in 1988,but was defeated for re-election in 1990. He ran unsuccessfully for the state Senate and for the North Carolina Court of Appeals before being elected to the House again in 2002.
James Daniel Jordan is an American politician currently serving in his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives as the representative for Ohio's 4th congressional district since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Calvin K.Y. Say is an American politician and former Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives. Say currently serves as a member of the Honolulu City Council,representing Honolulu's 5th District. He was sworn in as a member of the council in January 2021,taking the seat formerly occupied by Ann Kobayashi,who retired due to the council's term limits. After being worn in,Say was appointed chairperson of the council's budget committee.
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly,the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members,elected for two-year terms from single member districts.
Charles Kong Djou is an American politician who served as U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district from 2010 to 2011. Djou won his House seat in a May 2010 special election. He was defeated in the November general election after the Democratic primary provided a single opponent. He ran for but did not win his old House seat again in 2012 and 2014. Djou,who previously served in the Hawaii House of Representatives and on the Honolulu City Council,was the first Thai American of any party and the first Chinese American Republican to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. In June 2016,he entered the race for mayor of Honolulu,which he lost,48% to 52%,to incumbent Kirk Caldwell. As of 2023,Djou was the last Republican to have represented Hawaii in Congress. He left the Republican Party in 2018 and in 2020 endorsed Joe Biden for president. After Biden won the presidency,he appointed Djou to be Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Jeff Hoover is an American politician in the Republican Party of Kentucky.
Tony Cornish is a retired American police officer and former politician from the Republican Party. He was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He resigned in disgrace from the Minnesota House on November 30,2017,following multiple accusations of sexual harassment.
The 115th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States of America federal government,composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from January 3,2017,to January 3,2019,during the final weeks of Barack Obama's presidency and the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency. The seats in the House were apportioned based on the 2010 United States census.
William J. Seitz III is the state representative for the 30th district of the Ohio House of Representatives. He is a Republican. The district consists of Cheviot,Delhi Township,Green as well as portions of Cincinnati,in Hamilton County. Formerly,Seitz represented the same seat from 2001 to 2007. He served in the Ohio Senate from 2007 to 2016. He has also served as Majority Leader since 2017 serving under five different speakers and two interim speakers. After 24 years in the Ohio General Assembly,Seitz has decided to retire at the end of his term in 2024.
Randy L. Baumgardner is an American politician who served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 57th district from 2009 to 2013,and in the Colorado Senate from the 8th district from 2013 to 2019,as a member of the Republican Party. Baumgardner resigned after more allegations came out against him following an unsuccessful expulsion vote.
Tulsi Gabbard is an American politician,United States Army Reserve officer and political commentator,who was the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021. Gabbard was the first Samoan-American to become a voting member of Congress and also its first Hindu member. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election,before announcing in October 2022 that she had left the Democratic Party to become an independent.
Randolph Blake Farenthold is an American politician and lobbyist. A member of the Republican Party,Farenthold co-hosted a conservative talk-radio program before beginning a career in politics. Farenthold served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 27th congressional district from 2011 until his resignation in April 2018 in the wake of reports he used public funds to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit and had created an intensely hostile work environment for women in his congressional office. Upon resigning,Farenthold pledged to reimburse the US$84,000 in public money that he used to settle the lawsuit. He later reneged on his pledge to repay.
Steve Lebsock is an American politician who served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 34th district as a member of the Democratic and Republican parties from 2013 until his expulsion in 2018. Prior to his tenure in the state house he served on the city council in Thornton,Colorado from 2003 to 2011.
Don Shooter is an American politician from Arizona. A Republican,Shooter was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 13 from January 14,2017,until February 1,2018,when he was expelled from the House after several women accused Shooter of sexual harassment.
The Twenty Ninth Hawaii State Legislature is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the State of Hawaii,composed of the Hawaii House of Representatives and the Hawaii Senate. It met in Honolulu from November 10,2016,to November 6,2018,during the final two years of David Ige's first term as governor. The 2016 elections gave Democrats an even larger majority in both legislative bodies,with the losses of one Republican representative and lone Republican senator Sam Slom.
The 2017–18 United States political sexual scandals saw a heightened period of allegations of sexual misconduct,harassment and assault,and resulted in the subsequent firings and resignations of American politicians. Some of the allegations are linked to the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases starting in October 2017 amid the wider MeToo movement.
Michael Zabel is an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 163rd district from 2019 to 2023.
Troy Hashimoto is an American politician who currently represents the 5th district in the Hawaii Senate. He previously served in the Hawaii House of Representatives,first elected after longtime incumbent Democrat Joseph Souki resigned after allegations of sexual assault by several women. He previously was executive assistant to Maui County Council Chair Mike White.
Andrew Cuomo,the 56th governor of New York,was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women starting in December 2020,with the accusations covering a range of alleged behavior. He denied all allegations and has apologized for his comments being interpreted as sexually charged. On February 28,2021,New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she would hire and deputize a law firm to conduct an independent investigation into the allegations. On March 11,the New York State Assembly authorized an impeachment investigation into the allegations. In August 2021,James released an investigatory report that stated that Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women during his time in office,with actions such as unwanted groping,kissing and sexual comments. The controversy surrounding these allegations culminated in Governor Cuomo's resignation from office. Cuomo was replaced by his Lieutenant Governor,Kathy Hochul.
