Top Democrats call for NH senator to resign after arrest for domestic violence

Source: New Hampshire Union Leader



By KEVIN LANDRIGAN
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 02. 2018 9:18PM

CONCORD — Senate Democratic leader Jeff Woodburn, 53, was arrested Thursday and charged with nine misdemeanor counts of sometimes violent contact with his “intimate partner,” Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald announced.

The chairman of the state Democratic Party called on the party’s highest ranking member at the State House to resign immediately in the wake of criminal charges related to “sexual assault and sexual harassment,” according to Chairman Ray Buckley.

Woodburn, a resident of Whitefield, is serving his third term in the State Senate representing the most northern of the 24 districts. He’s actively seeking re-election. He has not returned calls and has shut down all of his social media platforms.

Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald said the charges of simple assault, domestic violence, criminal mischief and criminal trespass cover contact from last August through this past June. The most recent domestic violence charge states that Woodburn on two occasions bit a female, adult victim on the hand, once on Dec. 15, 2017 and then again on her right forearm resulting in bruising this past June 9-10.



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