Rep. Daniel Grossberg, D-Louisville, looks at his phone on the House floor, Jan. 8, 2024. (Kentucky Lantern photo by McKenna Horsley)
FRANKFORT — Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Colmon Elridge blasted Republican leaders in the General Assembly for assigning embattled Democratic Rep. Daniel Grossberg to three House committees.
In a Wednesday statement, Elridge, who has previously called on Grossberg to resign , said Republicans “were quick to remove their own members from committees for bucking leadership,” referring to the temporary removal of several GOP House members from committees at the end of the 2023 legislative session. Elridge continued, saying that Republicans are “now rewarding Daniel Grossberg, an individual with a disturbing, documented record of sexual assault and harassment.”
“If Speaker David Osborne and Senate President Robert Stivers cared more for Daniel Grossberg’s victims than they did for politics, they would join with House Democrats in stripping him from all committee assignments and demanding that he resign from office immediately,” Eldrige said.