Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R)
The Attorney General’s Office released the sexual harassment complaint filed against top aide Pat Magee that resulted in his 38-day suspension and the 20,000 dollar docking of his salary.
The complaint includes numerous allegations of harassment and sexist comments by Magee, who still works for the office. Political Analyst Bernie Pinsonat said the report may be costly for AG Jeff Landry.
“Those employees that he hires whether he is involved or his employee is involved is a big problem for your image if you are an elected official,” said Pinsonat.
The complaint was filed on November 20th. Among other things, the complaint alleges a number of times when Magee discussed women’s appearance in relation to situations that impacted their career advancement. An internal investigation conducted by an outside law firm into the matter reported Magee’s comments were “joking in nature” and “there were no allegations nor findings of any requests for sexual favors; inappropriate workplace touching; nor sexual overtures.”
Pinsonat said like the Johnny Anderson scandal that plagued Governor Edwards’ run for reelection Landry will be haunted by this situation should be run for Governor in 2023.
“He did face criticism and those ads were used against him in the Governor’s race. It wasn’t fatal to him but he still had to endure that and spend time explaining it,” said Pinsonat.
Anderson, a one-time aide to the Governor, resigned following accusations of harassment by a staffer.
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