A Michigan state senator allegedly told a female reporter that schoolboys ‘could have a lot of fun’ with her – By Devan Cole (CNN) / Jan 16 2020
Washington (CNN)A Michigan state senator apologized Wednesday after a female reporter said he remarked a day earlier that male high school students could “have a lot of fun” with her — a comment she believes was intended to intimidate.
Republican Senate Majority Whip Peter Lucido issued the apology after the reporter, Allison Donahue of the Michigan Advance, published a firsthand account of the Tuesday exchange at the state Capitol.
According to her account, Donahue had approached Lucido to ask him a question in the process of reporting when the senator, who was standing in front of a group of boys from his high school alma mater, told her he would speak with her “after he was finished honoring the group of students.”
“As I turned to walk away, (Lucido) asked, ‘You’ve heard of De La Salle, right?'” Donahue wrote, referring to the private, all-boys Catholic school in the state. “I told him I hadn’t.”
“‘It’s an all boys’ school,'” Lucido said, according to Donahue. “You should hang around! You could have a lot of fun with these boys, or they could have a lot of fun with you.”
Donahue wrote that the boys “burst into an Old Boys’ Network-type of laughter” as she walked away, adding she felt she’d “been the punchline of their ‘locker room’ talk.”
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