A former aide to U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn sued the Colorado Republican and his congressional office Thursday, alleging the congressman was "willing to sacrifice the health and safety of his
“Reckless” GOP Rep violated COVID rules, let son live in Capitol storage unit: lawsuit Salon 1 hr ago Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., ignored coronavirus safety protocols, exposed his staff to the virus and flouted ethics rules, according to a lawsuit filed by a former staffer on Thursday.
Brandon Pope, a former Marine who worked as an adviser to Lamborn, claimed that he was fired in December for seeking to protect employees from unsafe conditions in the workplace in a complaint filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C.
May 14, 2021 at 1:30 PM
Shares2
(Image via Getty)
As a Colorado state senator, Doug Lamborn once said associating with Barack Obama was “like touching a tar baby.” And yet his constituents saw fit to send him to the House of Representatives in 2007. The promotion seems not to have changed his behavior much, at least according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by a former staffer alleging that he was fired for pushing back against the congressman’s refusal to adhere to COVID-19 protocols because “I don’t care about you guys getting it.”
Brandon Pope, a Marine veteran first hired by Lamborn as a Wounded Warrior Fellow, then promoted to Defense and Business Advisor in the congressman’s Colorado Springs District Office, alleges that his former boss called COVID a “hoax” and took “a reckless and dangerous approach” to coronavirus, endangering the health of his staff and their families.
A former aide accused Colorado Republican Rep.
Doug Lamborn of showcasing “reckless” disregard for congressional rules and regulations, allowing his son to live in a storage unit located in the basement of the U.S. Capitol for several weeks and ignoring safety measures that caused multiple staffers and himself to contract COVID-19.
In a 16-page lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, former Lamborn military and business advisor
Brandon Pope claimed he was unlawfully fired in retaliation for pushing back against unethical and unsafe workplace conditions, particularly after several staffers had been exposed to COVID-19.