{"id":16255,"date":"2017-11-05T04:49:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=16255"},"modified":"2017-11-15T00:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T05:49:23","slug":"house-gop-to-investigate-sexual-harassment-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/11\/05\/house-gop-to-investigate-sexual-harassment-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP To Investigate Sexual Harassment Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16256\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/11\/05\/house-gop-to-investigate-sexual-harassment-claim\/untitled-18\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/untitled-18.png?fit=224%2C224&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"224,224\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"untitled (18)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/untitled-18.png?fit=224%2C224&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/untitled-18.png?resize=224%2C224\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/untitled-18.png?w=224&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/untitled-18.png?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/untitled-18.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><br \/>\nRepublican leaders of the Kentucky House of Representatives say they plan to hire a law firm to investigate a report that the House speaker settled a sexual harassment claim outside of court with one of his staffers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A news release from the GOP leadership on Saturday (11\/4) says they did not consult House Speaker Jeff Hoover, but have informed him of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>A report earlier this week relying on anonymous sources to say Hoover had settled a sexual harassment claim with a staffer in his office. Hoover met with House Republicans privately Friday (11\/3) but told them he could not comment about the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders say Hoover has the support of the caucus. But at least one Republican lawmaker has called for Hoover&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican leaders of the Kentucky House of Representatives say they plan to hire a law firm to investigate a report that the House speaker settled a sexual harassment claim outside of court with one of his staffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-4eb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 08:15:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16257,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions\/16257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}