RSSBradford mulling options
Rep. Laura Bradford said today that she will decide on Friday whether to resign her House seat or leave the Republican Party after a week of being accused of violating legislative privilege.
The Collbran Republican said the Denver Police Department’s apology and admission Tuesday that she never tried to use the little-known privilege to get out of a DUI, should be the end of it.
But Bradford said she is considering resigning, becoming an independent or even a Democrat because House Speaker Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, plans to go ahead with a House ethics panel to investigate the matter regardless of that apology.
“Why are they meeting,” Bradford asked, referring to the five-member ethics panel. “What is there to talk about? What is there to achieve with the purpose of having this ethics committee anyway when the key and the bulk part of it was in reference to whether I was guilty of not only invoking, but abusing legislative privilege. That’s a settled question.”
Bradford said the issue is all about politics, adding that McNulty and Republican leaders don’t like her and want her out of the House.
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