A Democratic state representative denied Friday that he had ever abused his ex-wife, and he blasted a Republican mailer that re-raised allegations in campaign literature sent this week to voters in his district.
Littleton police in 2015 investigated the allegations against Rep. David Ortiz and did not find enough evidence to arrest or charge him. The mailer containing the claims, paid for by the Restore Colorado Leadership Fund, shows images of Ortiz alongside photos of bruises on what appear to be a woman’s arm. It quotes from the 2015 police report detailing the abuse allegations against Ortiz and includes a text message Ortiz sent to his ex-wife.
In a statement posted to Facebook late Friday afternoon, Ortiz denied the allegations and called the mailer “a disgusting, dishonest attack ad from a dark money GOP smear group … trying to impugn my character by dragging up an allegation that I acted abusively toward my ex-wife after we broke up.”He seemed to acknowledge the text message referenced in the mailer was accurate.
Ortiz’s ex-wife, whom the Denver Post is not naming because of the nature of the allegations, did not return a message late Friday afternoon. On Feb. 27, 2015, a Littleton Police officer called Ortiz’s ex-wife, who said she wanted to report that she had been beaten. She and Ortiz had divorced several years before, and she had come and stayed with him in Littleton at his invitation.
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