Michigan Sen. Peter Lucido makes disparaging remark to reporter Allison Donahue

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A Michigan senator is accused of humiliating a female journalist in the state’s chambers by telling her a group of high school boys “could have a lot of fun” with her. Michigan Advance reporter Allison Donahue claimed the comments by Sen. Peter Lucido, the state’s senate majority whip, left her “objectified and humiliated” as she tried to interview him. Instead of answering the 22-year-old’s questions, the politician pointed to a group of about 30 boys visiting from his all-boys alma mater, De La Salle Collegiate, Donahue wrote in a first-person exposé. “You should hang around! You could have a lot of fun with these boys, or they could have a lot of fun with you,” the Republican politician told her, she wrote. He told her it was how he always talks to women.

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