After Texas college donations in 2025,\u00a0MacKenzie Scott donates $70 million to Meals on Wheels<\/a><\/p>\nBecause Dantzer was her superior, Gable claims she \u201cfelt she had no choice but to endure Mr.\u00a0Dantzer\u2019s harassment if she wanted to keep her job.\u201d<\/p>\n
In October, Gable and Dantzer, along with three other city employees, stayed at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel for the annual Texas Municipal League conference, Gable said in a November formal complaint to the city.<\/p>\n
Gable alleged in that complaint that\u00a0Dantzer commented on her baggy pants and attempted to pull them down during a walk back to the hotel from a local restaurant. As the two approached the hotel valet area, Gable claims Dantzer asked\u00a0if her then-boyfriend, now husband, \u201cknows how to handle her.\u201d She alleges he then grabbed her by the neck, pushed her against a concrete pillar and choked her, according to the complaint filed with the city.<\/p>\n
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Gable said she pushed Dantzer away and went into the hotel.<\/p>\n
City officials requested a third-party investigation into Gable\u2019s human resources complaint, but then closed it, and the city took no further action. The Texas Rangers later confirmed they were investigating Gable’s allegations.<\/p>\n
Lawsuit from former HR director<\/p>\n
Gable\u2019s suit comes on the heels of a lawsuit from former Human Resources Director Kristy Powell, who alleged she experienced “harassing and retaliatory behavior” from other employees who were close with Dantzer while investigating Gable’s complaint. That lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Texas on March 17 against the city and Dantzer.<\/p>\n
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Powell alleges in the lawsuit that she was harassed over the unrelated terminations of two other city employees prior to Gable\u2019s complaint. She also accuses Dantzer and the city of retaliation and violating her right to free speech.<\/p>\n
Powell’s lawsuit claims her resignation last November, which followed the alleged assault on Gable, amounted to constructive discharge\u2014meaning she claims\u00a0Dantzer and the city made her working conditions so intolerable that she was compelled to resign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers are investigating allegations by the Magnolia city secretary that Mayor Matthew Dantzer assaulted and choked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41346,116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-251180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-conroecp","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}