Rep. Diana DeGette Says She Was Harassed in an Elevator by Former Rep. Bob Filner

‘Bob Filner tried to pin me to the door of the elevator and kiss me and I pushed him away and, of course, some years later he left Congress’

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DeGETTE: "When I was a young lawyer, I didn't have -- I didn't have a lot of untoward advances but had situations. I'd be a a dinner. Someone would put their hand on my knee a couple of times. When I was a young congresswoman, I was at a diplomatic dinner and one of the French diplomats tried to put his hand up my dress. You can imagine the shock when you're sitting at a dinner like that. And then some years ago, I was in an elevator and then congressman Bob Filner tried to pin me to the door of the elevator and kiss me and I pushed him away and, of course, some years later he left Congress. He became the mayor of San Diego, and then he had to leave that position for harassing younger women."

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