Bale Dalton, the Democrat running in Florida’s 7th Congressional District in north Central Florida against GOP incumbent Cory Mills, is calling on Mills to resign.
Mills has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee since November regarding allegations of sexual misconduct, dating violence, campaign finance violations, and misuse of congressional resources.
“Cory Mills is clearly unfit for office and should be removed,” Dalton said in a written statement Tuesday.
“He’s an arms dealer sitting on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he faces campaign finance violations and an ethics investigation, and he had a restraining order issued against him for being a danger to a Florida woman 19 years his junior. Any one of these should be disqualifying for a job as serious as a U.S. Representative.
“But D.C. politicians don’t seem interested in cleaning house and rooting out the corruption that is running rampant in Washington. I’m running to give Central Florida a better option — someone focused on the real issues facing working families, not their own self-interest.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he would be “looking into” the investigation regarding Mills. The comment came a day after Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell from California and Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales from Texas announced resignations amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
While Johnson has been reluctant to say what he intends to do with Mills, he’s been much more emphatic about the other Florida U.S. representative in trouble, South Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.
The House Ethics Committee announced last month that its adjudicatory subcommittee had proven 25 of 27 counts of ethics violations against Cherfilus-McCormick. She is under federal indictment over allegations that she stole $5 million from FEMA disaster funds for personal use.
Dalton is a decorated Navy captain and former NASA chief of staff who entered the race against Mills last November.
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