{"id":322080,"date":"2023-03-30T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=322080"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:35:11","slug":"fletcher-stepping-down-as-district-4-county-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/fletcher-stepping-down-as-district-4-county-supervisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fletcher stepping down as District 4 County Supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"

District 4 County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher announced this week he would be resigning his seat as he deals with a lawsuit from a former Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) employee. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The suit accuses Fletcher, whose District 4 includes La Mesa, Lemon Grove, a large swath of central San Diego including portions of the College Area, of sexual assault and harassment. According to a statement from his office released March 30, Fletcher’s resignation will take effect on Monday, May 15, 5 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In a series of tweets March 29, Fletcher wrote, \u201cThe strain on my wife and family over this past week has been immense and unbearable. A combination of my personal mistakes plus false accusations has created a burden that my family shouldn\u2019t have to bear. I will be resigning from the Board of Supervisors, effective at the end of my medical leave. I will focus solely on getting healthy and being a good husband, father and friend. I am grateful to my constituents for the honor of serving you, my incredible team who worked tirelessly to make a real difference, and our county workers who put it all on the line for those most in need everyday. I am proud of what we accomplished together. My decision today is solely based on what is best for my family.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, Fletcher noted he was ending his short-lived campaign for State Senate. That was so he could enter treatment reportedly outside of California for both PTSD and alcohol abuse. Finally, Fletcher <\/span>also <\/span>stepped down as chair of the MTS.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Grecia Figueroa (LinkedIn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court, the alleged victim, Grecia Figueroa, was an employee of San Diego\u2019s MTS <\/span>(also named as a defendant in the lawsuit)<\/span>, which provides bus and rail service around the area.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Figueroa, 34, who worked as a public relations specialist, alleges in her lawsuit among other things that Fletcher, 46, wanted a sexual relationship with her for a number of months <\/span>and also stalked her on social media<\/span>. Figueroa was ultimately fired from her job with MTS in early February, ironically around the same time Fletcher noted he would be running for California State Senate. <\/span>Figueroa claimed she <\/span>“was intimidated by the dynamic Fletcher had created” and stated she “felt pressured to reciprocate Fletcher’s advances because she knew he had authority, as both a career politician and as chair of the MTS Board, to destroy her career at MTS and to potentially humiliate her publicly if she made him angry.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fletcher noted <\/span><\/span>in a statement released earlier this week that he had taken part in <\/span><\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/span>consensual interactions” with <\/span><\/span><\/span>the alleged victim<\/span><\/span><\/span> but denie<\/span><\/span><\/span>s the allegations of<\/span><\/span><\/span> assault and harassment. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

District 4 County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher announced this week he would be resigning his seat as he deals with a lawsuit from a former Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) employee. The suit accuses Fletcher, whose District 4 includes La Mesa, Lemon Grove, a large swath of central San Diego including portions of the College Area, of […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":938,"featured_media":322081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"15441","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"District 4 County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher announced this week he would be resigning his seat as he deals with a lawsuit from a former Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) employee.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"3","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15441],"tags":[15682,15681,15683,12454,12375],"class_list":["post-322080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-mesa-courier-top-stories","tag-district-4","tag-grecia-figueroa","tag-mts","tag-nathan-fletcher","tag-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322086,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322080\/revisions\/322086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}