She was jumping on the bandwagon.
Via Miami Herald:
As the “Me Too” movement gained steam across the nation last fall, Miami Beach City Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez went public with her own harrowing tale: that a political ally, Rafael Velasquez, had pulled out his penis and tried to force her to touch it while the two sat alone in a car.
But according to a newly released memo from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, prosecutors have declined to charge Velasquez, saying there was not enough evidence to prove a crime took place.
If anything, investigators found evidence that conflicted with the commissioner’s account — although they also declined to pursue Velasquez’s counter-claim that the commissioner made the whole thing up and filed a false police report in order to promote her congressional campaign.
“This commissioner used these false allegations for political purposes, and the power of her office, to basically destroy my name and reputation in our community,” said Velasquez, who at the time was locked in a close race for the Miami Beach commission. “The only taxpayer-funded seat this criminal commissioner should occupy is a bench in state prison.”
Prosecutors said they informed Rosen Gonzalez and her attorney last month “that no criminal charges could be filed in this matter” because they “would not be able to meet [the] burden of proof to establish a crime had occurred beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt.” But in a statement to the Herald, Rosen Gonzalez claimed she was the one who told prosecutors she did not want the case to go on.[…]
Rosen Gonzalez’s allegations — dished to the media before she reported them to the police — killed Velasquez’s political aspirations and thrust her own congressional campaign into the middle of a discussion about the sex scandals dominating Florida’s politics in late 2017. They also drew out stories from two more women: publicist Frances Alban, who said the married 45-year-old father of two groped her, and Roxanna Ayers, who said Velasquez made inappropriate, “pervy” comments about her appearance.
Velasquez is a Democratic activist whose rocky political career includes an episode where he says he accidentally voted illegally, twice. Rosen Gonzalez, first elected to the Miami Beach City Commission in 2015, is running as a Democrat to replace Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in the U.S. House of Representatives.
HT: boboadobo