Couldn’t help but notice while giving a floor tour that they moved Nicole Mitchell to the opposite side of the chamber away from the side the press sits on. Replaced her seat with Dziedzic. Stop protecting her. Make her answer for her actions. #mnleg pic.twitter.com/4sJqbjlDmxDemocrat Minnesota State Sen. Nicole Mitchell has been stripped of committee assignments and caucus meetings after being arrested for burglary at her stepmother's house last week.
Police found Mitchell wearing all black with a flashlight inside her stepmother's home after she called the police about an intruder.
— Julia Coleman (@JuliaEColeman) April 29, 2024
Fox 9 reports, "While speaking with investigators, Sen. Mitchell claimed she entered the house to get items that belonged to her late father. Mitchell claimed the woman, identified as a non-blood relative, had stopped contacting her and refused to give her the items, such as pictures, a flannel shirt, ashes, and other sentimental items."
"I was just trying to get a couple of my dad's things because you wouldn't talk to me anymore," Mitchell allegedly said while being arrested.
However, one of the items Mitchell was taking was a laptop that belonged to her stepmother. Meaningful conversation today with @MomsDemand community members advocating for common sense gun reform & safer communities at #mnleg--as well as providing Minnesotans the mental health services they need to #EndGunViolence in our neighborhoods pic.twitter.com/QencA4RE1J
— Senator Nicole Mitchell (@Sen_NMitchell) April 16, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy, also a Democrat, said in a statement, "This is a tragic situation, and there are still questions that need to be answered. The legal investigation is ongoing, and last week, we referred her case to the Senate Subcommittee on Ethical Conduct. While the case is under review both in the Senate and in the courts, Senator Mitchell will be relieved of her committee assignments and removed from caucus meetings."
Mitchell has been charged with first-degree burglary and is scheduled to appear in court on June 10.
"GOP lawmakers have since filed an ethics complaint on the matter and made a motion to expedite the investigation," Fox 9 reports. "Although accused legislators typically have up to 30 days before an investigation begins, Republicans noted that the legislative session would be over by then." Every single Democrat voted to allow Sen. Nicole Mitchell to vote while the ethics complaint against her is being discussed by the ethics committee..
She was the deciding vote.
Here she is hugging the Senate Majority Leader.
It’s all a farce. pic.twitter.com/kzCSIQviGK
— Dustin Grage 🇺🇸 (@GrageDustin) April 29, 2024
The disgraced lawmaker has been permitted to vote as the ethics investigation continues.
