Page files sexual harassment claim against SC lawmaker

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Page files sexual harassment claim against SC lawmaker



A S.C. House page has filed a sexual-harassment complaint against state Rep. Edward Southard, R-Berkeley, The Post and Courier of Charleston reported Thursday.

Details of the complaint have not been released. Southard, a former Berkeley County planning commission chairman who won a special election in 2011, told the Charleston paper that he was surprised the complaint had become public.



“You shouldn’t be knowing about it because I was assured that no one would know about it, except me and three other people,” Southard told the paper.

The office of S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas, R-Darlington, would not confirm the complaint to The State.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article73185827.html#storylink=cpy

Last year,State Rep. Nelson Hardwick (R-Horry) resigned after complaints of sexual harassment became public. I am going out on a limb here, but I believe women are in more danger working for a republican than they are in a bathroom.

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1. The victim was female?

That's somewhat unusual for a republican, isn't it?