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Northern Minnesota DFL official resigns one year after vehicular homicide charge
Cyndy Martin resigned amid a felony vehicular homicide charge for a July 2024 crash that killed a 19-year-old; she pleaded not guilty and faces up to 10 years in prison.
- On Dec. 12, Cyndy Martin, 8th District DFL Chair, resigned one day before the DFL's State Central Committee meeting.
- Prosecutors charged Martin with a felony criminal vehicular homicide charge four months after the crash, and she pleaded not guilty last month, facing up to 10 years in prison.
- According to police records, Martin told officers she believed she hit an owl or turkey and did not stop, then called 911 the next morning near Nashwauk.
- Party officials responded that DFL Chair Richard Carlbom thanked Martin for her service and said the party will support local DFL units filling leadership roles amid split views on northern Minnesota electoral goals for 2026.
- On July 3, 2024, police found Carter Haithcock's body on Highway 169 near Nashwauk, and the DFL State Central Committee was set to meet the day after Martin's resignation.
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Minnesota ReformerNorthern Minnesota DFL party official resigns one year after vehicular homicide charge
An influential Democratic-Farmer-Labor official in northern Minnesota resigned Friday, a little over a year after she was charged with criminal vehicular homicide. On Monday, the Reformer reported the DFL party was standing by 8th District DFL Chair Cyndy Martin despite…
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