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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Second senator formally complains against Kruse
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A second sena-
tor has filed a public complaint
against Sen. Jeff Kruse detail-
ing accusations of unwanted
touching over a period of
years.
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hay-
ward, D-Beaverton, filed the
formal complaint against the
Roseburg Republican Nov.
14, according to the document
released Tuesday by Oregon
Legislative Counsel.
“My goal is simply to get
him to stop touching me inap-
propriately, which he has per-
sisted in doing despite my
ongoing statements to him that
I do not want him to touch me
in any way other than a pro-
fessional handshake,” Steiner
Hayward wrote.
The Beaverton senator said
Kruse’s inappropriate behavior
escalated in 2015. Kruse began
giving Steiner Hayward close
hugs, touching her thigh and
sitting so close to her that their
legs made contact.
“I told him on several occa-
sions that I was uncomfortable
with this level of physical con-
tact, that it was unprofessional,
and that as a survivor of domes-
tic violence those behaviors
were particularly problematic
for me,” she wrote. “Addi-
tionally, I told him that I have
asthma, and that the significant
residual tobacco smoke on his
clothing irritated my breathing
when he sat too close to me.”
Details from Steiner Hay-
Jaime Valdez/Portland Tribune
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Beaverton, walks with other senators into the inauguration ceremony of Gov. Kate
Brown in the House of Representatives at the Oregon Capitol in Salem Jan. 9, 2017.
ward, first reported earlier
Nov. 21 by OPB, follow news
earlier this month of a public
complaint filed by Sen. Sara
Gelser, D-Corvallis.
Steiner Hayward, through
her chief of staff, referred
all questions to Legislative
Counsel.
In her grievance, Gelser
accused Kruse of touching her
breasts and thigh, giving her
full body hugs, wrapping his
arms around her tightly, kiss-
ing her cheek and whispering
in her ear. She called for Kruse
to be expelled from the Senate.
Previous informal com-
plaints by the two female sen-
ators prompted a legislative
lawyer and human resource
administrator to warn Kruse
to stop the unwanted touching.
Requests to stop the behav-
ior went unheeded, according
to the formal complaints by
Gelser and Steiner Hayward.
By early 2016, several
women at the Capitol had
complained about Kruse’s
unwanted touches and lodged
informal complaints (which
are not public) to Senate Presi-
dent Peter Courtney, D-Salem.
Kruse behaved in a more
“circumspect” manner for
nearly a year, Steiner Hayward
wrote.
In March, the unwanted
touching
resumed,
she
reported.
“I would remind him that I
did not want him to touch me
in those ways, and he would
back off for a week or two,
and then the cycle would begin
again,” she stated.
She and her chief of staff,
Lizzy Atwood Wills, devised
a plan to prevent the unwanted
behavior by making sure a
staff member accompanied the
senator during any meetings
with Kruse and always left the
door to the room ajar.
“I have never felt the need
to take such precautions with
any other man, either in my
medical career or in the Leg-
islature,” Steiner Hayward
wrote.
Kruse did not respond to a
request for comment Tuesday
afternoon. Despite mounting
calls for him to resign, Kruse
said Nov. 17 that he had no
plans to leave his seat in the
Senate.
A formal investigation into
the allegations is underway.
Senate President Peter Court-
ney has stripped Kruse of his
legislative committee assign-
ments and ordered that his
senate office door be removed
as discipline for smoking in
the Capitol and the repeated
allegations of unwanted
touching.
On Monday, Kruse was
looking ahead to the next leg-
islative session in early 2018
during a presentation for the
Roseburg Area Chamber
of Commerce, according to
KQEN News Radio 1240.
The senator acknowledged
the accusations against him
and referenced an Andy War-
hol quote about everyone hav-
ing 15 minutes of fame, the
radio station reported.
“I have exceeded mine,”
Kruse was quoted as saying.
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