Ms. Palin took the extraordinary step Tuesday of filing an ethics complaint against herself, making the matter fall within the bailiwick of the personnel board.
Ms. Palin said that the Personnel Board was the appropriate body to deal with the matter, and she pledged to cooperate with the separate inquiry by the panel after filing a complaint against herself.
But in her statement about her sexual harassment complaint, she describes herself as overpowered by the "relentless pursuit of a powerful individual over me".
One elderly Somali woman I know entered hospital with a heart complaint but found herself being quizzed about a procedure on her genitals 60 years earlier; in another horror story a woman in labour was treated as a circus exhibit when midwives discovered she had been infibulated, the attention suddenly on the spectacle between her legs rather than on her urgent needs.
She added that she plans to file a bar complaint against Taitz herself for "her reprehensible and unprofessional actions".
Her daughter obeyed with little complaint and then hanged herself.
For Ms. Banon herself, the complaint brought an end to years of indecision and turmoil.
She transformed herself, without complaint, from my father's lover, friend, muse, and combatant to his nursemaid, cheerleader, chauffeur, and medical advocate.
She also told him that if he robbed the bank in the early morning — as he eventually did, the authorities said — he would find only three employees present, one of them herself, the complaint said.
In a measure that may go some way to preventing abuse of what some would regard as an inherently abusive system, the commission will not respond to reports "unless the person making the complaint identifies himself or herself" and "the information is verified".
