SAINT PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Republican legislators are planning to file a second ethics complaint against DFL State Senator Nicole Mitchell of Woodbury.
They claim she did not disclose a conflict of interest when she voted against her expulsion last month because of her burglary charge. Republican State Senator Steve Drazkowski of Mazeppa says Mitchell had a financial interest in making the deciding vote on an effort to expel her because it meant keeping her salary and benefits.
Mitchell is accused of breaking into her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home last spring. She says she was getting items belonging to her late father and this is all a misunderstanding. Mitchell successfully petitioned to delay her trial until after the legislative session ends.
