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Michigan lawmaker apologizes for telling reporter boys could 'have a lot of fun with her'
Sen. Pete Lucido apologized for the "misunderstanding," but also said the incident was "blown out of proportion."A rookie news reporter was heaped with praise Wednesday for standing up to a powerful Michigan lawmaker who she says humiliated her when he allegedly told a visiting group of Catholic high school boys that they could “have a lot of fun” with her.
But Allison Donahue, who is just 22 and has worked for the Michigan Advance for eight months, said the hardest thing about her confrontation Tuesday with state Sen. Pete Lucido outside the Senate chamber in Lansing, Michigan was telling her father about it later.
“He was upset,” she told NBC News. “I frequently call him after work and tell him about the crazy days I have. It was heartbreaking to tell my dad something like that.”
Donahue said something similar happened to her when she was 15 and “I had to tell him about that too.”
Lucido, a 59-year-old Republican, issued an apology Wednesday. But his mea culpa came after first telling The Detroit Free Press that he didn’t feel he owed Donahue an apology, saying the whole matter had been “blown out of proportion.”
“I apologize for the misunderstanding yesterday and for offending Allison Donahue,” he said in a brief statement.
Donahue said she appreciated Lucido’s apology and said she hopes he read her first-person account of Tuesday’s encounter.
“I hope he reaches out and we can talk more,” she said. “Maybe we can find some common ground.”
I tried to interview Sen. Peter Lucido. He told me a group of schoolboys ‘could have a lot of fun’...
I waited outside the Michigan Senate chamber to ask Sen. Peter Lucido (R-Shelby Twp.) on Tuesday for a comment about the Detroit Metro Times’ story reporting that he was a member of a violent,...
NBC News reached out to Lucido, but there was no immediate response. Leaders of his own party as well as the Democrats were concerned by the incident.
“I take this very seriously and intend to have a very intense and lengthy conversation with the senator as soon as we’re done with session,” Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, a Republican, told reporters. “If those words that were reported are accurate, it’s very unacceptable and that’s all I’ve got to say about it.”
Shirkey and Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, a Democrat who represents the city of Flint, later formally requested a sexual harassment investigation into Lucido.
Lucido is a married father of three whose district includes the state capital Lansing and who currently serves as the Majority Whip. He is also reportedly eyeing a possible run for governor in 2022 against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat.
Donahue is from western Michigan and covers education, immigration, women’s and LGBTQ issues for the Michigan Advance.
In her account, Donahue said she was waiting to ask Lucido about his involvement in an anti-Whitmer group on Facebook which includes “posts about graphic violence against Democrats, anti-Muslim rhetoric and degrading comments about women.”
Lucido had been hosting a group of students from his alma mater De La Salle Collegiate, which is an all boy’s Catholic high school in the Detroit suburb of Warren.
“I asked Lucido for a moment to address the issue at hand, and he told me he would catch up with me after he was finished honoring the group of students,” Donahue wrote. “As I turned to walk away, he asked, ‘You’ve heard of De La Salle, right?’”
Donahue said she hadn’t.
“It’s an all boys’ school,” he told me, Donahue wrote. “You should hang around! You could have a lot of fun with these boys, or they could have a lot of fun with you.”
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