Two women detail sexual harassment on Clinton, Sanders campaigns

Two women who worked for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders during the 2016 elections have spoken out about the sexual harassment they endured on the job, according to reports.

Lilian Adams was 19 when she joined Hillary Clinton’s campaign, while Zoey Jordan Salsbury was 18 when she signed on to work for Sanders’ presidential bid, Huffington Post reported.

Both women said their respective campaigns failed to properly address their allegations.

Adams, who started off as an intern at Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters in 2015, was harassed by a co-worker after she relocated to Colorado in May 2016 to work as a paid organizer for the campaign.

Adams said that as a bisexual, she felt targeted by his homophobic comments and went on to endure months of the alleged abuse.

“He made multiple comments about my body, told people we were dating, would constantly try to get me to drink (I was 19), try to force me into situations where we were alone, encouraged me not to wear bras etc,” she told HuffPo.

Adams, who said she first flagged up the harassment with a superior in June 2016, reached out again two months later calling for action.

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While she was relieved her fellow organizer was promptly fired, she learned that he had been hired a month later to work on the Clinton campaign in a different state, Adams said.

Salsbury, on the other hand, was volunteering as the president of American University Students for Bernie when another intern on the campaign made unwanted advances, she said.

Another member of the group confirmed her account, saying Salsbury had been sexually harassed.

Salsbury, who wasn’t sure if her claims would be taken seriously, said there were no policies infrastructure within the campaign to deal with reports of harassment, or any policies made readily available to volunteers.

When she posted about her experience on social media, she said a former campaign manager reached out before a lawyer called her about it.

“It felt like I was being blamed,” Salsbury said of the phone call.

Adams said, ““You have a lot of young passionate people who want to help change the world through Democratic politics. Older Democratic operatives see this passion and exploit it, putting us in an extremely stressful and unhealthy work environment.”