{"id":970,"date":"2023-03-30T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/?p=970"},"modified":"2023-03-30T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:05:19","slug":"local-afl-cio-president-resigns-amid-sexual-assault-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Local AFL-CIO President Resigns Amid Sexual Assault Investigations."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Labor union power broker, Jonathan Byrd, has resigned from his position as the President of the South Central Michigan Area Labor Council. The information was sent out from the AFL-CIO through a press release earlier today.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"826\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/D628D94F-BC41-4218-8CC5-8DA24315077F-826x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/D628D94F-BC41-4218-8CC5-8DA24315077F-826x1024.jpeg 826w, https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/D628D94F-BC41-4218-8CC5-8DA24315077F-242x300.jpeg 242w, https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/D628D94F-BC41-4218-8CC5-8DA24315077F-768x952.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/D628D94F-BC41-4218-8CC5-8DA24315077F.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Byrd\u2019s resignation comes on the heels of an investigation into an alleged sexual assault that occurred at a Kalamazoo Democrat Party fundraiser, as reported by the KGOP in an earlier <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kgop.org\/?p=941\"><strong>article<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As reported and uncovered by the KGOP, we believe Attorney General Danna Nessel was in Kalamazoo on April 19, 2022&nbsp; and may have attended the fundraiser where the alleged sexual assault occurred.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We reached out to the Attorney General\u2019s office to verify if AG Nessel was in Kalamazoo and attended a fundraiser on April 19, 2022. Unfortunately they were more concerned with what news organization I was with, than saying yes or no.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/79678085-0B56-4383-B2AC-56602A5DB884-694x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/79678085-0B56-4383-B2AC-56602A5DB884-694x1024.jpeg 694w, https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/79678085-0B56-4383-B2AC-56602A5DB884-203x300.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/79678085-0B56-4383-B2AC-56602A5DB884.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luckily our very own State Representative Julie Rogers shared a picture with AG Nessel on April 19, 2022\u2026in Kalamazoo at a fundraiser for Nessel herself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"994\" src=\"https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5247A507-D828-4311-9C92-99C01815795B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5247A507-D828-4311-9C92-99C01815795B.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/kgop.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5247A507-D828-4311-9C92-99C01815795B-226x300.jpeg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor union power broker, Jonathan Byrd, has resigned from his position as the President of the South Central Michigan Area Labor Council. The information was sent out from the AFL-CIO through a press release earlier today.\u00a0 Byrd\u2019s resignation comes on the heels of an investigation into an alleged sexual assault that occurred at a Kalamazoo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}