Harassment suit against Burton settled {San Francisco's John Burton }

San Francisco -- A sexual-harassment suit against former state Senate leader John Burton by the executive director of his charitable foundation for homeless children has been settled on confidential terms, the plaintiff's lawyer said today. Attorney Kelly Armstrong said she could not say anything about the nature or timing of the settlement or describe her client's reaction to it. Burton and his lawyer were unavailable for comment. In the suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court in January, Kathleen Driscoll accused Burton of making lewd and suggestive comments to her on an almost daily basis after hiring her as executive director of the John Burton Foundation in August 2006. . . . Burton, a San Francisco Democrat, spent 35 years in the state Legislature and Congress and was one of the state's most powerful politicians . .... [read full story]