Stuart Taylor, Jr.Sex Predator or #MeToo Prey? – Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com Online Archive Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:35:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Sex Predator or #MeToo Prey? – Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com 32 32 Sex Predator or #MeToo Prey? https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/sex-predator-or-metoo-prey/ https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/sex-predator-or-metoo-prey/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:39:10 +0000 Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/?p=17232 Life was good for Matthew Dababneh until the fall  2017. A former congressional aide, the moderate Democrat had won an open seat in the California State Assembly in 2013 and easily won reelection twice. At age 36, he was rising in  Democratic Party politics. Then, with breathtaking suddenness, his reputation and career were devastated. It started when a lobbyist named Pamela Lopez was quoted accusing an unnamed California lawmaker of pushing into a bathroom behind her, “expos[ing] himself and . . . masturbating.” She later claimed it was Dababneh. But he hopes his libel suit against her will provide the public hearing […]

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]]> Life was good for Matthew Dababneh until the fall  2017. A former congressional aide, the moderate Democrat had won an open seat in the California State Assembly in 2013 and easily won reelection twice. At age 36, he was rising in  Democratic Party politics. Then, with breathtaking suddenness, his reputation and career were devastated. It started when a lobbyist named Pamela Lopez was quoted accusing an unnamed California lawmaker of pushing into a bathroom behind her, “expos[ing] himself and . . . masturbating.” She later claimed it was Dababneh. But he hopes his libel suit against her will provide the public hearing he has never had and prove his innocence.

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