As Eric Swalwell’s public profile grew, more than a dozen women say he made them uncomfortable in private | CNN

A 19-year-old Los Angeles restaurant hostess was stunned to get a LinkedIn message from Eric Swalwell – a congressman she had interacted with briefly as she escorted him and his party to a table, only telling him her first name. A young congressional staffer said Swalwell sent her flirty messages on Snapchat after talking to her inside a Capitol Hill office and slipping his business card into her back pocket. Another young woman who connected online with Swalwell about a policy issue said he repeatedly sent her suggestive messages, offered to fly her to DC, and even wrote her a letter of recommendation despite never meeting in person. “He would Snapchat me. He’d be like, ‘What do you want to do with your future?’” she recalled. “And then he’d be like, ‘What are you wearing right now?’” More than a dozen women who spoke with CNN described interactions with Swalwell that made them uncomfortable over the last decade, from social media messages to in-person encounters to alleged attempts by the congressman to lure them to his hotel room. Some asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation. Their accounts – none of which have been previously reported – add ne

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