Republican State Senator Joe Fain Accused Of Rape, Prompted By Kavanaugh Hearing

Promtped by watching the Thursday hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, one of the women who has accused him of sexual assault, a woman came forward and said a Republican state senator from Washington's 47th legislative district sexually assaulted her in 2007.

Candace Faber, a writer, communications strategist, and entrepreneur based in Seattle, took to Twitter to name State Senator Joe Fain, accusing him of raping her the night she graduated from Georgetown University in 2007.

In a series of tweets, she also expressed her frustration with how Ford, whose accusation against Kavanaugh dates to the 1980s, was criticized for waiting till Kavanaugh was in the highest levels of judiciary to come out with her story.

She named and tagged Fain in a tweet in the same thread and described how she thought it was audacious of him to ask her support in his campaign.

“I’m done playing games in my head of how I’d react if I ran into you at a social or political event. … I’m done leaving rooms when your name is mentioned. … I’m done being scared,” she said in another tweet.

Earlier this month, Fain was endorsed by the Seattle Times as part of his re-election campaign. The article described him as a centrist who pushed for policies that helped people of both parties and urged people to re-elect him to the state senate in the coming mid-term elections for a third four-year term.

Born in South King County, Fain worked for King County in the prosecutor’s office and on the staff of Councilmember Pete von Reichbauer. He was also an adjunct faculty member at Highline College and worked for the technology transfer and commercialization program by the University of Washington.

Faber was watching the Kavanaugh hearings live on television, often taking to Twitter to express her thoughts and views on the proceedings.

“Again, why does it matter when Mark Judge worked at the supermarket? How do these details help anyone make a decision? Also, again, why is there a prosecutor here? I went from being interested to being triggered to being bored by irrelevant questions,” she wrote at one point.

“Also: Is anyone else just fed up and ready to name names? Because I am!” she said before she went on to name Fain.

Fain was yet to respond to the accusations at the time of this story being published.

In Thursday's hearing, Ford reaffirmed her claims in front of a largely male Senate committee. Kavanaugh took the stand right after her and in an emotional speech, talked about how he and his family were suffering due to the allegations, which he called “last-minute smears, pure and simple.” Many Republicans took turns to affirm they believed him and termed the allegations an attempt to degrade him.

The Judiciary Committee was set to vote on Friday morning. The American Bar Association, which previously endorsed Kavanuagh, has called for the vote to be delayed until an FBI investigation of the accusations was completed.