LANSING, Mich. – A state senator filed a sexual harassment allegation Tuesday against a state senator facing investigation over remarks to a female reporter.
State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said state Sen. Peter Lucido, R-Shelby Township, made her feel uncomfortable and degraded during orientation for new senators at the Senate office building in Lansing shortly after the election in November 2018.
As first reported by Crain's Detroit Business, McMorrow said she approached Lucido to introduce herself, when he shook her hand while using his other hand to hold her lower back, grazing her "upper rear" with his fingers.
Lucido asked where she was from and whom she ran against, and McMorrow said she was from Royal Oak and defeated Republican Sen. Marty Knollenberg.
"At that moment, still holding his hand on my low back, he looked me up and down, raised his eyebrows and said, 'I can see why,' " McMorrow said in a statement released Tuesday.