UPDATE: The Amarillo Globe News has a comprehensive description of the tragic night. It only makes the ripples of resignation talk push stronger, especially considering this quote from the deceased driver’s father: “I don’t like the idea she gets off scot-free.”
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News is breaking that Texas law enforcement officials told a grand jury that Senator Suzanne Williams lied to investigators in the aftermath of a car accident where her car struck another vehicle, killing an occupant.
From Channel 7: 
"State police investigators recommended that a Colorado senator be charged with criminally negligent homicide, tampering with physical evidence and injury to a child in a crash that killed a pregnant Amarillo woman, Department of Public Safety records obtained by the Amarillo Globe-News show."
Complete Colorado has also obtained copies of the heartbreaking 911 tapes related to the crash. In one tape you can hear one of the children from the other vehicle call out for their mother, who passed away in the crash. Truly heartbreaking.
As sad and devastating as this tragedy is, this latest news raises an important question…should Williams resign from the Senate?
We do not begrudge or second guess the grand jury for its decision not to seek the prosecution of Williams. A number of factors go into that analysis, and we have no reason to question one way or the other whether the grand jury's choice was the right one.
But just because Senator Williams won't go to jail does not mean that she should keep her job.
It will be interesting to see how Williams' colleagues in the Senate react.
Will Senate President Brandon Shaffer empanel an investigation?
Will Republicans call for her resignation?
What will the Denver Press, and the all powerful Denver Post especially, say and do from an editorial viewpoint in the coming days?
All sides privately say they are heartbroken for Williams, because she has always shown herself to be generous and kind. But this sad tragedy did happen, a mother did lose her life, she did lie to the police, and so the question of "what's next" for Sen. Williams should be asked.
I’m most upset that this has taken so long to take effect. This family has been grieving now for 6 months while Senator Williams has been enjoying her posh job. It’s high time Democrats and Republicans alike call for her resignation.
Certainly not the Gomez children.
Not Scott Gomez.
Not the Gomez family.
Not the police, investigators, DA’s, or emergency responders.
Not the people who serve us as elected officials, lying to cops is not a good image for anyone elected to public office.
Not the Republicans (I would say that seat is pretty safe for the dems)
Not the seat belt advocates.
Not the voters of Aurora.
Who do we have left? …oh yeah, the winner, Sen. Suzanne Williams who HAS been charged with three minor traffic offences AND YET still decided to plead NOT GUILTY!!!!
It is disgusting. Resign!
the only consequence she’s faced was removal from the Transportation committee–presumably to save the irony of her voting on traffic safety measures.
I for one hope the Gomez family takes her for everything she is worth in the civil suit they filed. Hope they take her house, her teacher’s union pension, every penny in her name, and her car so it can be crushed and never murder another person. She is a disgrace to the state and a worthless excuse for a human being.
YES, YES, YES. She needs to resign. She can’t both make laws and break them. Especially since some poor woman was killed. Someone needs to talk some sense into Williams.
Another Democrat Party politician who places herself above us, and a gaggle of Democrat Party politicians prioritizing their power over justice for the little guy, and a moronic legacy media machine who refuse to repeatedly report that; 1) she is a Democrat, 2) she screwed up, 3) her screw-up caused the death of a pregnant mother, 4) she lied to the officers investigating an incident that resulted in a death caused by her action.
And just how is it that a) tampering with evidence, and b) lying to investigators during an official investigation is not a felony under obstruction of justice statutes?
For legacy media to have any credibility, they must keep this story alive by every day broadcasting another interview with another person demanding her resignation, and questioning how it is that she is not being prosecuted for obstruction of justice, every singe day, over and over again.
And we should all reject the sentiment that she is really a nice person. No. She is deceitful. She is irresponsible. She is arrogant. None of that adds up to “nice person.” That adds up to “bad person.”
So, make her resign, and prosecute her for obstruction of justice. Good grief. This is not rocket science.
Why is it now the question? How did she not have the grace to resign before? We have a fucking murderer in the state senate and Morse, Morgan Carroll, Stupidfuck Shaffer, none seem to care. Come to think of it, where was Kopp on this? Penry would’ve been calling for her head. Did it somehow make sense to her to stay put while a grand jury investigated her? She sounded like the stupid arrogant bitch she is on the 911 tapes. What a disgrace.
after reading the Amarillo newspaper she looks even worse…tampering with evidence, lying to investigators. How was she not indicted? It’s not like being a state senator from Colorado, much less a Dem carries any weight in Texas–so that theory is out.
Seriously why hasn’t anyone taken the lead on getting her out? She’s in a safe seat, term limited and no upward mobility. Hopefully this arrogance of state Dems is remembered next year.
just the fact that an elected official identifies herself as the driver on VIDEO and then pleads “not guilty” to ALL charges is NOT what the people of Aurora deserve!!!
The 911 calls are just as devastating, listening to the little girl crying out ‘I want my mommy’ just rips at the core of anyone’s heart, Republican or Dem. And then compact that with the fact that she LIED to investigators!!!
Resign!
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