The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/steberger/)
Reed Steberger ’13 withdrew from the race to represent Collegetown and the Ithaca Commons at the county level on Thursday night, hours after The Sun reported claims of coercion and sexual assault made against the candidate.
Editors Note: Reed Steberger ’13 ended their candidacy for Tompkins County Legislature Thursday night.
In less than one week, Democrats will head to the polls to elect their nominees for the Tompkins County legislature. In District 4, incumbent Rich John ’81, who won a write-in campaign four years ago, is being challenged by Reed Steberger ’13. No candidate in the race has been endorsed by this paper. However, following a disturbing report in The Sun about Steberger’s conduct while at Cornell University, we are calling on Steberger to drop out of contention for this seat.