Four of the women who made accusations worked for Mendoza as staffers, interns or fellows; a fifth woman worked for a different legislator and another worked as a lobbyist. The report said that none found him to be physically aggressive or sexually crude but that all understood him to be seeking sexual contact. Democrats debated disciplinary action in an hours-long closed-door meeting Wednesday, weighing punishments that ranged in severity from a formal censure to suspension with or without pay to expulsion.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 22, 2018 20:02 UTC