As a Pikachu costume-wearing, corgi-toting leftist candidate, Kenneth Mejia’s unorthodox style helped fuel his insurgent campaign for Los Angeles city controller.
But less than six months after Mejia, 32, trounced a career politician to win the job, two former employees allege that he created an uncomfortable work environment where personal boundaries were often blurred in both the controller’s office and on the campaign.
They say Mejia frequently made comments about the sex lives of two young campaign workers prior to his election and pressured employees and former campaign staffers to move into his apartment building after the election.
Mejia's office denied the accusations and said the alleged issues were never brought up with Mejia or other senior team members before being shared on social media this week.
“What’s with politicians whose names start with K that are ‘progressive’ but terrible and toxic bosses?” Shekinah Deocares, a former campaign staffer who spent several months as the director of community engagement for the controller’s office, tweeted Monday morning.
She paired the question with two pairs of oversized eyeballs and a thinking-face emoji and followed it up with a series of accusations in subsequent tweets.
“To be clear I’m talking about @kennethmejiaLA @lacontroller who just pushed out @kyler_chin who made ALL of the resources for his campaign and office a couple months after pushing me out because he didn’t value community work and thought it was a...
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