St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her under investigation for sexual harassment allegations 30%

By MPR News Staff84%

7/29/2026, 7:20:08 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias, Self-Serving Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 25.2% saturation with 30 hits. Analysis detected 164 faulty-reasoning hits from 119 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.6% and a BS Rank of 30% (21,644 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 70.80% of the article peer group.

St. 
Paul Mayor Kaohly Her is facing an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. 
The Star Tribune reported Tuesday that Police Chief Axel Henry notified the city in April he had filed a formal complaint. 
The city has hired a law firm to investigate. 
According to that report, the complaint cites sexually suggestive text messages Her sent to a city employee. 
The mayor’s spokesperson, Matt Wagenius, said the city will not comment on an active investigation. 
“The mayor has deep respect for city employees and regrets any unintended impact her actions may have had,” Wagenius said in a statement. 
Her’s office declined to comment further on the issue. 
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119 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers39%attributed speech72writer words
Selected voice

Matt Wagenius

61%flagged-word coverage
38 attributed words81% of attributed speech54% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Biased Writer Voice-18.1 ptsWriter: 18.1%Matt Wagenius: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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