Croydon said one incident that happened a decade later was "intimately embarrassing and traumatic for me to talk about." After a poetry performance, she wrote, she and Buttar gathered with a group of people to catch up. One friend asked everyone when was the last time they had sex, and Croydon said she had been celibate for years, she wrote.
"Shahid's response shocked and embarrassed me," Croydon wrote. "'Oh, my god, that is way too long! How can you go without sex that long? That's insane! I couldn't do it, you poor thing. It must be so hard.'"
Croydon wrote that she had replied that her "celibacy was a voluntary decision because it helped me cope with surviving sexual assaults, batteries and other misconduct. I felt degraded, nauseated, and revolted that he would mock me in front of friends who looked to me as an outspoken voice for women."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Shahid-Buttar-Nancy-Pelosi-s-election-15424675.php
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One specific incident happened at Shahid's communal home. I had gone to the kitchen to get a drink when Shahid sneaked up behind me. He cornered me with his body and got so close and brushed up against my breasts. He blocked me in so I could not move away and gave me a weird smile that unnerved me. This was during the time that he was repeatedly harassing me for sex. Although he didn't say anything to me, this interaction was meant to intimidate me. He eventually let me pass. I made it very clear I was not interested nor would I tolerate further advances and I left the house.
Another article claiming that he was mistreating female staff members
Former staffers said Buttar's campaign staff has already completely turned over twice, with more than half a dozen employees or contractors quitting at around the same time in April or May.
"As a male staffer, Shahid never did anything terrible to me. But women staffers? A completely different picture," said Patrick Cochran, Buttar's former volunteer coordinator.
Cochran recalls his female colleagues needing to gather "three or four men" to have their ideas taken seriously by the candidate.
William Fitzgerald, who handled PR for Buttar, shared similar memories: "It felt to me, as a white guy, he listened to me a lot more than the women members of his team," said Fitzgerald, a principal at The Worker Agency.
"It was obvious and he would often speak down to and be extremely rude to women. And in front of lots of people. And it was not a one-off and not to just one woman."
Fitzgerald says he broke ties with the campaign in April. "We wanted to see him through the primary."
Multiple former campaign staffers declined interviews, including former campaign manager Jasper Wilde and finance director Emily Jones, citing non-disparagement clauses in their contracts. Buttar denied the existence of the NDAs.
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