“(She) states that she felt dirty, scared and was afraid that the defendant was going to rape her,” the criminal complaint said. “After the defendant leaned into the back seat to pick something up she was able to send a quick text message asking friends to return to the parking lot.”

Although the woman did not report the alleged incident to police, the criminal complaint said she and an attorney drafted a letter warning Kramer to stay away from her. The detective said the letter, sent to Kramer on May 18, 2011, warned him to have no contact with the woman because of the “physical and sexual assault you perpetrated on (the victim) at the recent Pints and Politics event in Muskego.”

The woman’s account was bolstered by another woman, who said she found the alleged victim crying and “in a panic” when she met her in the parking lot that evening, and by Keith Best, first vice chairman of the Waukesha County Republican Party, who also was at the political event that evening, according to the complaint.

Best told Westphal that he doesn’t recall details but that the woman told her Kramer “got physical with her and put his hands where they did not belong,” the complaint states.