The Supervisor of Elections for Lee County, Tommy Doyle, is making a public and personal apology days before he is up for re-election.
Doyle sent the media a statement about allegations of an extramarital affair with a female co-worker after the Miami Independent first reported it.
In the statement, Doyle admits to making a terrible decision five years ago that hurt his wife deeply.
He said. “This was the worst decision of my life and something I deeply regret. My wife and I are working through this together, and through the grace of God, we are healing as a family.”
He also apologized to his staff and the constituents of Lee County.
He was first elected as the Supervisor of Elections in 2016 and was re-elected in 2020.
The county HR has commented on the days Doyle was at the co-worker’s house during working hours. The taxpayers pay Doyle’s salary.
‘Tommy Doyle begged me to take the settlement.’ A 20-week severance pay settlement package in 20 specific paychecks, apparently for a ghost employee, raises innumerable concealment and misconduct concerns by the purported perpetrator as the apparent negotiator of this settlement/severance agreement.”