After more than a month of refusing to step down amid calls for his resignation, embattled Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli announced his resignation in a statement addressed to the residents of Windsor Friday.
In the statement, Foppoli attributed his resignation to, “not want undue national attention to have a negative impact on the Windsor community because of lawful, but poor choices, I have made in the recent past.”
Foppoli goes on to write, “It is with a heavy heart that I am resigning, effective today. I have always and will always maintain that I did not engage in any non-consensual acts with any woman. I recently learned that a woman in Palm Beach, Florida accused me of non-consensual acts while I was visiting there in March of this year. She made her allegations after she learned of the April 8, 2021 San Francisco Chronicle story. I have no doubt she is making these allegations in an attempt to leverage the situation to her advantage.”
Foppoli had recently attended a Town of Windsor meeting on May 19 to prevent his office from being vacated.
To date, at least nine women have accused him of sexual assault. Foppoli is currently under investigation by the California Attorney General’s Office.
