'Enough is enough': Kentucky Democrats again want state Rep. Daniel Grossberg to resign over new allegation

Christopher Leach, Lexington Herald-Leader on May 7, 2026

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The chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party has again called for state Rep. Daniel Grossberg to resign after a woman alleged Grossberg assaulted her when the two were students at Grinnell College.

Christina Ross, 38, alleges she and Grossberg came to know each other after she decided to attend Grinnell, in Iowa, and he repeatedly pressured her to have sex with him before an incident in her dorm room in which he grabbed her wrist and would not let her go. Ross filed a police report in 2005, which was obtained by the Herald-Leader. Ross, who was 18 at the time while Grossberg was 26, did not pursue charges.

Ross is the ninth woman to come forward since July 2024 with allegations against Grossberg. Those accounts, reported by the Herald-Leader, include messages he sent that made multiple women uncomfortable, invasive questioning about one woman’s body and sexuality in Grossberg’s legislative office, and an alleged assault that earned Grossberg a lifetime ban from a Louisville strip club.

The latest allegation against Grossberg, a Democrat from Louisville, has prompted his own party to publicly rebuke him again.

“Rep. Grossberg’s inappropriate and coercive behavior toward women is part of a pattern that clearly makes him unfit to serve,” Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Colmon Elridge said in a statement. “Once again, we are calling on him to resign — but since he hasn’t, we hope voters will do that for him later this month.”

Grossberg faces three Democratic challengers in the May 19 primary for his Louisville district.

State Sen. Keturah Herron, D-Louisville, who represents part of Grossberg’s district in the Senate, said “enough is enough” Thursday and also urged him to resign.

“With these allegations, we are now well past the three strikes rule,” Herron said in a statement. “It is time for him to go. His constituents need a strong voice in Frankfort, one that they can trust to do the right thing. And I need a colleague that I can work with to make a difference.”

Grossberg denied the allegation in a statement to the Herald-Leader.

“After twenty years, this is the first I am hearing of these false claims. I was never contacted by anyone about this,” Grossberg wrote in a statement. “Not the college, not the police, and certainly not by Ms. Ross. None of this has ever come up before, because it did not happen.”

This is not the first time top members of Grossberg’s own party have called for him to resign. Grossberg, now 47, has refused.

The state House Democrats expelled Grossberg from caucus after previous allegations surfaced, and the KDP has banned him from attending party events.

Running for a third term to represent part of Louisville for House District 30, Grossberg will face challengers Cassie Lyles, Max Morley and Mitra Subedi in the May 19 primary. There is no Republican running in the district, which makes the primary winner the likely eventual officeholder.

Some of the previous public allegations against Grossberg were investigated by the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission.

In February 2026, Grossberg was formally reprimanded by the commission and agreed to pay a $2,000 fine, in part for threatening the manager of Foxys Gentlemens Club after he was kicked out and banned. Hours before a public hearing into his conduct was scheduled, where several witnesses were prepared to testify, Grossberg took the settlement. In that settlement, he conceded there may be enough evidence to find probable cause that he violated the ethics code.