Report: Women claim they were sexually harassed while working for Clinton and Sanders campaigns

From The Hill:

A former organizer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and a former volunteer for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2016 White House bid say they were the victims of sexual harassment while they were working for the candidates, according to a Huffington Post report on Friday.

The allegations come in the midst of a wave of sexual harassment charges in the political realm.

Clinton did not comment to the Huffington Post on the story. Sanders’ office acknowledged that while interns and employees on his campaign would have been given a handbook on sexual harassment, volunteers were not, and that that policy would be changed going forward.

Lilian Adams started as an intern for Clinton’s campaign, before moving to Colorado to work as a paid organizer for Clinton’s bid and the state Democratic Party, according to the report. For months, she told HuffPost, she experienced harassment, including remarks about her sexual orientation, from an unnamed man also working on the campaign.

That alleged harassment only got worse over time, she said.

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