An Open Letter to Senator Bray,

I am so disappointed in you for your lapses of both ethics and judgment during the last session of the Legislature. As chair of the Natural Resources and Energy Committee and having an intimate partner with a financial stake in the outcome of bills pending before the committee, you put both your reputation and your constituents’ best interests in question.

Your personal relationship with a lobbyist is fraught with the appearance of impropriety at best and actual undue influence to benefit her clients at worst.

As a constituent, I can no longer support you for re-election. Voters need to remove you from office since you did not have the ethics to remove yourself from chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee.

Jeannette Bair

Hancock

Editor’s note: The Independent had not received a rebuttal from Sen. Bray before deadline. If received, a response will be posted with this letter on our website, addisonindependent.com.