Former Sonoma Mayor Rachel Hundley accuses Dominic Foppoli of sexual misconduct

Seven-year Sonoma city councilmember Rachel Hundley has gone public with the charge that Dominic Foppoli, the Windsor mayor accused of sexual misconduct by at least six other women, accosted her at a Sacramento hotel.

Hundley recounts the 2015 incident in today’s San Francisco Chronicle.

At the time, Hundley and Foppoli were newly elected councilmembers attending a government conference.

“His exposure to me was absolutely nonconsensual and unwanted,” said Hundley. It was “unwanted sexual aggression and persistence contrary to the boundaries I had set.”

Foppoli has denied all allegations. Despite widespread calls for his resignation, including by national political figures, he has refused to step down.

Hundley came forward when she “realized how desensitizing it can be to be a young woman navigating a sexist and patriarchal world filled with men who think they are entitled to women’s bodies.”

What Foppoli did was wrong, Hundley posted this morning. “What he did to the six women who have spoken out about him was wrong. We need to solve both problems.”

Hundley served on the Sonoma City Council stepped down from the city council this year. She served as mayor in 2017.