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   From: vacancy@kamala.harris   
      
   In the summer of 2019, Rose Fumoso left her home in southern France to intern   
   at a Sonoma County winery, where the 21-year-old greeted customers in the   
   tasting room and assessed the ripeness of grapes from the vineyard. As the   
   season wound down in    
   September, a friend invited Fumoso to a party celebrating the end of harvest.   
   There, she met the host: Dominic Foppoli, the mayor of Windsor.   
   A small town in the heart of Wine Country, Windsor has transformed in recent   
   years from a sleepy neighbor of Healdsburg to a tourist destination. Much of   
   that rise has been credited to Foppoli, a young winery owner whose political   
   star and push for    
   development have attracted outside investments in the community.   
   It was evening when Fumoso arrived at the party at Foppoli’s Christopher   
   Creek Winery, 4 miles north of downtown Windsor, on the outskirts of   
   Healdsburg. She said yes when Foppoli, then 37, suggested she check out his   
   car. At his invitation, she said,    
   she sat in the white Tesla’s passenger seat.   
   Suddenly, they were moving. Fumoso said Foppoli drove them to an unfamiliar   
   house. Once inside, she said, he grabbed her, forcibly kissed her and groped   
   her buttocks while pinning her body against his own. Fumoso said she told   
   Foppoli to stop, and tried    
   to push him off, but his grip tightened. She said she repeatedly told him,   
   “No,” but he didn’t listen.   
   Fumoso is one of four women who have told The Chronicle that Foppoli isolated   
   and sexually assaulted them after nights of drinking. Reporters interviewed   
   friends or family members who either witnessed some of the events recounted by   
   the women or said the    
   women had confided in them shortly after the alleged assaults.   
      
   The allegations follow the arc of Foppoli’s career, from his first bid for   
   public office to his current seat as Windsor’s mayor:   
   In 2003, Foppoli dated an 18-year-old campaign volunteer while running to   
   represent the North Coast in the California State Assembly, the woman told The   
   Chronicle. She said that, amid their breakup, the young candidate pressured   
   her to drink alcohol for    
   the first time before raping her twice at a house party. The woman, now 35,   
   said she had told Foppoli she was waiting for marriage to have sex.   
   In 2006, Sophia Williams split a cab with Foppoli after drinking at a   
   nightclub with friends from a junior college dance class. She said she was   
   surprised when the driver dropped them off at Foppoli’s house instead of   
   taking her home, but that Foppoli    
   offered her his bed, saying he would sleep on the couch. Instead, she said,   
   Foppoli got into the bed, thrust his groin against her buttocks and tried to   
   remove her pants as she told him, “No.” To escape, she said, she locked   
   herself in his bathroom    
   for hours before fleeing the home early the next morning.   
   In 2012, Allison Britton attended a conference in Reno for a civic club to   
   which Foppoli also belongs. After hours of drinking alcohol, Britton said she   
   became extremely and visibly inebriated, prompting a friend to suggest Foppoli   
   walk Britton back to    
   her hotel room. He instead brought Britton to his room, she said, and served   
   her more alcohol. She said he then engaged in oral copulation with her when   
   she was too intoxicated to consent and nearly unconscious.   
   In addition, in 2017, when Foppoli was vice mayor of Windsor, a person who had   
   rented the guesthouse at Christopher Creek Winery four years earlier wrote a   
   letter to the mayor alleging Foppoli had a “predatory nature” and had   
   engaged in “abuse of    
   power,” according to emails obtained by The Chronicle through the California   
   Public Records Act.   
   The complainant — whose name Windsor officials redacted  — said Foppoli   
   invited himself to the guesthouse, where he directed two young female winery   
   employees to remove their underwear and wear togas, tried to remove at least   
   one female guest’s    
   bathing suit, and secretly topped off the guests’ wineglasses.   
      
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