OGUNQUIT, Maine — A second actress is accusing former President George H.W. Bush of inappropriate touching.

Jordana Grolnick says Bush grabbed her buttocks during a group photo last year at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine.

She told Deadspin that Bush quipped that his favorite magician is ‘‘David Cop-a-Feel’’ and grabbed her.

She said Barbara Bush responded, ‘‘He’s going to get himself put in jail.’’

Grolnick couldn’t be reached immediately by The Associated Press. Her story came to light after People magazine reported a similar allegation by actress Heather Lind.

The former president’s office said he routinely tells the same joke ‘‘and on occasion he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner.’’ The statement says he apologizes ‘‘to anyone he has offended.’’

Associated Press

President back in Virginia governor’s race via Twitter

President Trump jumped into the Virginia governor’s race again Thursday, with two tweets praising Republican Ed Gillespie as being tough on crime and protective of Confederate statues and ‘‘heritage.’’

‘‘Ed Gillespie will turn the really bad Virginia economy #’s around, and fast. Strong on crime, he might even save our great statues/heritage!’’ Trump tweeted at 10:07 a.m., an apparent reference to new Gillespie ads that call for preservation of the state’s Confederate monuments.

The president is a native of New York. Gillespie grew up in New Jersey.

Four minutes later, Trump added, ‘‘Ed Gillespie will be a great Governor of Virginia. His opponent doesn’t even show up to meetings/work, and will be VERY weak on crime!’’

Gillespie’s Democratic opponent, Ralph Northam, is a former Army doctor and pediatric neurologist who grew up on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

He responded to the president’s tweet with his own: ‘‘I served 8 years in the Army, took care of sick kids, and am running to build a more inclusive Virginia. Don’t talk to me about showing up.’’

Northam later shared a video of him treating patients at a free clinic in southwest Virginia, adding: ‘‘While I was treating patients at the RAM clinic, Donald Trump was golfing in Sterling. You tell me who doesn’t show up for Virginians.’’

With the election just 12 days away, speculation has mounted about whether Trump would hit the campaign trail for the Republican in the nation’s only competitive governor’s race this year.

Gillespie has repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether he would welcome the president to a state where Trump is deeply unpopular.

Virginia was the only Southern state to vote for Hillary Clinton last year.

Washington Post

Koch brothers sink millions in attacks against Democrats

The billionaire Koch brothers are turning up the heat on vulnerable Senate Democrats in a move to pressure some of them to support the Republican tax-cut plan.

A group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch is adding $1.6 million to its advertising attacks on Senate Democrats facing challenging 2018 re-election bids.

Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce said it plans to start running three week’s worth of television and digital ads against Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin beginning next Monday.

She’s one of 10 Senate Democrats facing re-election next year from states won by President Trump.

This latest round of political spending by a Koch-affiliated organization comes as the tax overhaul promised by Trump and GOP congressional leaders has taken center stage in Washington.

House Republicans set a goal of releasing a bill on Nov. 1 and getting it passed by the end of the year, provided the House adopts a budget that’s already made its way through the Senate. The budget passed Thursday.

“It seems like the harder we work, the more Washington takes from us,’’ one of the spots says. “Senators like Tammy Baldwin are the problem.’’

A second ad features a Wisconsin construction company president suggesting that if Baldwin “opposes tax reform, it’s proof that she opposes jobs, she opposes higher wages.’’

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin said that the ads were “dishonest’’ and that Baldwin supports tax cuts for working families in the state.

“The dishonest smear attacks continue as out-of-state special interests pour in millions of dollars to take down Tammy Baldwin and replace her with someone willing to sell out Wisconsin families,’’ said Brad Bainum, Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesman for the 2018 Senate race.

The spending follows an Oct. 5 announcement in which another Koch group, Americans for Prosperity, pledged to run $4.5 million in ads over three weeks against Baldwin and two other Democratic senators, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

Bloomberg