Former intern for Virg Bernero details sexual harassment allegations
LANSING, Mich. —
Virg Bernero dropped his plans to run for a fourth term as Lansing mayor on Sunday.
Liz Hart may have had something to do with it.
Hart is a past campaign intern for Bernero, who says she was sexually harassed by the former mayor. Her experiences were first reported by Mlive.
She describes their first interactions; “When I met him as an intern, like before I’d met him, I definitely got a creeper feel from him.”
“Like, I totally caught him checking me out… doing the up and down thing with his eyes,” she said.
For Hart, who started working for Bernero in 2013, the sexual harassment would only get worse.
“He started talking about his fantasies of threesomes,” she said.
She was warned by an office manager that Virg could be “flirty,” or touchy.”
“When I would wear my hair in a ponytail or down like this, he would pull it,” says Hart.
“If he was making phone calls, walking around, he would pull at it… you know? Grab your shoulder and like touch your neck in a squeezing way.”
Hart worked for Bernero for nine months.
