Report: Colorado State Senator Had Her Staff Doing Yard Work and Bartending
2 min readDemocratic leaders have ceased funding for state Senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis to hire additional employees due to ongoing reports of mistreatment towards her legislative staffers.
Recently, an aide was assigned to perform yard work and bartend at a private party at the lawmaker’s home, compensated with campaign funds. The Longmont senator also directed the staffer to engage in campaign activities and canvass for another politician running for Adams County commissioner.
The Colorado Sun has reported on this situation, noting that the commissioner candidate was running against Julie Duran Mullica, who is married to Democratic Senator Kyle Mullica—one of Lewis’ intraparty legislative rivals.
From The Sun:
Jaquez Lewis stated that the work “benefited me by allowing me to interface with donors and further my political support.”
Meanwhile, the Longmont Green Party is calling for Lewis’s resignation. “Democrats cannot claim to represent Colorado workers while using public dollars to mistreat them,” Green Party Longmont Chair Patrick Dillon said on X:
Jeff Hunt at 710KNUS discusses the scandal with Mark Baisley:
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