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State Senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis abruptly resigned this week, just two hours before facing a hearing in her ongoing ethics probe.
In December, we reported State Senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis (D-Longmont), how she allegedly mistreats her staff, and how the Democrat-led Senate prohibited her from having legislative aides going forward.
“This is now clearly a recurring issue,” outgoing Senate President Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, said in a letter to Jaquez Lewis. “In good conscience we cannot support placing an aide in your office while this behavior and complaints continue.”
At the time, we discussed interesting revelations from a Colorado Sun article, and Jaquez Lewis may be guilty of campaign finance violations and related criminal conduct. From that article:
“Jaquez Lewis paid the aide who did the landscaping work and tended bar over the summer with a check from her campaign’s bank account. She also allegedly used campaign money to pay the same aide for knocking on doors on behalf of an Adams County commissioner candidate who was running in the Democratic primary against the wife of one of Jaquez Lewis’ intraparty legislative rivals… The payments, documented in the complaint with copies of checks written by Jaquez Lewis from her “Sonya For Colorado” campaign’s bank account, were never reported on TRACER, the state’s campaign finance website.”
Keep that history in mind as you consider the latest revelations about the now former Senator. On Tuesday, the Senate Ethics Committee was prepared to meet at 8 a.m. to discuss the saga above, but shortly before the hearing, the Senator resigned.
“I have a wonderful new opportunity to serve with a regional not-for-profit organization that focuses on women’s and LGBTQ+ leadership through an international lens,” Jaquez Lewis said in a 6am Facebook post, first reported by the Colorado Sun.
She's going to work for a regional non-profit? How appropriate in the current climate.
The abrupt resignation led to other revelations. "...the senator had submitted at least one fabricated letter of support sent to the [ethics] panel that purported to be from a former aide. The aide told legislative investigators that she didn’t write the letter and hadn’t been in touch with Jaquez Lewis for roughly a year."
She fabricated a letter of support from an aide and PUT THE AIDE'S NAME ON THE LETTER. That is wild, and must violate ethics rules, if not multiple laws. That would mean she violated ethics rules to mislead an ethics committee. Brazen.
On Wednesday, the former Senator claimed it was all an accident:
In a just world, the resignation would not stop the investigation. Further, a defendant that fabricated evidence to beat an ethics probe should definitely be reviewed for credible allegations of campaign finance violations.
And what about justice for her victims? The investigations must continue. Public trust demands it. It is not enough that she resigns (and gets promoted to a cushy nonprofit).
Sonya Jacquez Lewis must be held to account.
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