Two weeks after San Diego County supervisor Nathan Fletcher was charged with sexual misconduct in a lawsuit, his four colleagues on the Board of Supervisors passed a vote of no confidence against him on Tuesday and called for his immediate resignation.

Fletcher had said he would step down as supervisor effective May 15, but after increasing public pressure his colleagues demanded that he leave immediately.

“It is clear to me that the only way forward is without Supervisor Fletcher on this board,” said board chairman Nora Vargas, adding that Fletcher would not participate in any additional voting prior to his resignation if it went into effect next month.

Supervisors Jim Desmond and Joel Anderson, the two Republicans on the governing body, also asked the board to restart the hiring process for a new county executive, the highest-ranking staff position, calling the previous hiring process “tainted” by Fletcher’s involvement.

Fletcher’s office said Tuesday he was pending and could not comment on the vote.

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A chorus of other elected officials from both parties has called for Fletcher, a Democrat, to step down now.

Fletcher announced on March 26 that he was ending a campaign for the Senate to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse.

Days later, after a former Metropolitan Transit System employee filed a lawsuit accusing Fletcher of sexually assaulting and harassing her when he was chairman of the bureau’s board, he resigned from that position and then said he would step down as supervisor.

Grecia Figueroa, a former MTS public relations specialist, said in her lawsuit that Fletcher began viewing her social media posts in 2021 and later asked her to meet in private, where she said he kissed her several times against her will and groped.

She was fired on February 6 the day Fletcher announced his campaign for the Senate in what she said was retaliation.

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Fletcher, who is married to former state assemblyman Lorena Gonzalez, has acknowledged what he called “consensual interactions” with Figueroa but denied her allegations of assault and harassment.

The carrier said Figueroa’s termination was solely related to ongoing performance issues and said Fletcher had no role in that decision.

Last week, the MTS board also voted to launch an investigation separate from his defense in the pending lawsuit, saying it would not represent Fletcher or defend him against wrongdoing in his position as board chairman.