idk i think that repeatedly messaging your employee about your sexual attraction to them even as they turn you down and eventually causing this behavior to have them lose their job definitely constitutes sexual harassment.

The former employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their privacy, alleged that Brooks harassed them over a period of six months, sending personal text messages late at night and after work hours, expressing romantic and sexual interest on multiple occasions, and pressuring them to have an intimate relationship. On March 14, they filed a complaint to Brooks’s campaign manager, Michelle Whittaker — who is also her sister — and the two parties entered into a formal mediation that concluded last month.

The allegations, supported with documents and text messages reviewed by The Post, have caused a painful rift among Montgomery’s progressive activists and leaders, many of whom have known Brooks, an Afro-Latina activist, and supported her political ambitions for years. Several of her closest advisers and supporters recently resigned from her campaign and some have urged her to withdraw from running.

One of the requirements of the mediation agreement, which was moderated by a neutral third party, was that Brooks had to explain why the employee had left the campaign. At a closed-door meeting with staff and advisers on March 26, Brooks read from an “accountability statement” that had been approved from the employee and admitted that she had sexually harassed them on Jan. 24. Those at the meeting responded in a mix of anger, disappointment and disbelief; some of her closest supporters cried, said three people affiliated with the campaign.