Breaking: Rep. Mike Zabel, a Pennsylvania lawmaker representing Delco, submitted his resignation letter Wednesday, a week after a union lobbyist accused him by name of having sexually harassed her several years ago.
Andi Perez, a lobbyist with the Service Employees International Union, went public with her allegations during a hearing in January but did not name him. In a statement last week, however, she accused him by name of caressing her leg while they were discussing legislation outside the Capitol and said he did not stop when she moved away from him.
“He then asked me if I wanted to get out of here and go upstairs," Major said. She recalled telling a colleague Zabel had propositioned her and “was being a creep." As a male colleague walked her to her car, she said, she was “stunned” to see Zabel behind them. “My illness has caused some behavior that I regret, and I agree that additional intervention is necessary for me to fully recover,” Zabel wrote last week. “I am in the process of securing additional intensive treatment, beyond the outpatient treatment I have been receiving, and am currently working with my health care providers and my family to identify an appropriate inpatient program which I will be entering as soon as possible.
Zabel, a lawyer first elected in 2018, is married. He voted last week for a package of 2023-24 session chamber rules that, among other things, greatly expanded who can file complaints about lawmakers through the House Ethics Committee.
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