‘It wasn’t sexual, but he did grab me by the head,’ she said. ‘When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth’
A former congressional aide to Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., says then-Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately at a 2009 fundraiser, the second woman to make allegations against Biden in the past week.
In a comment Sunday on a “Connecticut Women in Politics” Facebook post that shared Flores’ story, Lappos said Biden “did something similar to me” at a Greenwich, Connecticut, fundraiser for Himes. Lappos worked as an aide to Himes from January 2009 to November 2016, primarily as a constituent services representative and grants coordinator, according to Legistorm, a congressional research firm. Her LinkedIn page lists her as the owner of Moma Grants, a freelance grant-writing service.
“Uninvited affection is not OK. Objectifying women is not OK. Men who invade a woman’s personal space, touch women inappropriately, sexually harass women and feed rape culture have no place in a position of power,” she said. The $1,000-per-ticket fundraiser took place Oct. 5, 2009, at the Greenwich home of Ron Moelis, an affordable-housing developer. The event was covered for the Stamford Advocate by Neil Vigdor, the reporter who broke the story about Lappos’ allegations on Monday for the Courant.
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