DFL leader calls for resignation of party member, state senator Nicole Mitchell

[sarisataka]

DFL leader calls for resignation of party member, state senator Nicole Mitchell

Early Thursday morning, leaders of the DFL party called for the resignation of state senator and party member Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury.)

This comes after Mitchell was formally charged with first-degree burglary for allegedly breaking into her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home late last month. A few days later, Republican members of the Minnesota Senate filed an ethics complaint against Mitchell.

A few days later, Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy (DFL-St. Paul) announced Mitchell had been removed from committees and caucus meetings.


The party issued the following statement regarding its decision calling for Mitchell’s resignation:

“The Minnesota DFL believes that all elected officials should be held accountable, including members of our own party. While Sen. Mitchell is entitled to her day in court, her continued refusal to take responsibility for her actions is beneath her office and has become a distraction for her district and the Legislature. Now that her constituents have had full representation through the end of the legislative session, it is time for her to resign to focus on the personal and legal challenges she faces.”

Ken Martin, Chairman of the DFL Party

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/dfl-leaders-call-for-resignation-of-party-member-state-senator-nicole-mitchell/

If only the other party followed the example of accountability

[orange jar]

1. All the "both sides" believers...

need to look at how the Dems have denounced & reprimanded Menendez, Cuellar, and Mitchell vs. how the Reps sweep their corruption under the rug and/or encourage it. Only one side is corrupt here, and it's very obvious which.

[PlutosHeart]

2. Mistake

Seems so easy for our Dems to thrust someone out especially when she has not even been in trial.

Shoot self in foot much?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Walz has called for her to step down as well.

[the_sly_pig]

4. I get it, but I don't agree with it.

If anyone has ever had a sh**head step-whatever, I understand what she was doing. I have thieving sh**head relatives. Yep, maybe she went about it the wrong way, but a little compassion from her own party would likely go a long way. She should not be "Frankened".

[mysteryowl]

5. Wrong position to take.

Let it play out first.