Katie Hill’s alleged male lover says their ‘lives are ruined’ following resignation

The legislative director whose alleged affair with Rep. Katie Hill sparked a House Ethics Committee probe against the lawmaker said his fellow staffers’ “lives are ruined” following his boss’s resignation.

“[E]veryone i’ve worked with every day for the last two years lives are ruined and they’re already talking about the next race,” Graham Kelly wrote from his private account on Twitter Sunday night.

“What a town,” he added.

The staffer — who Hill has vehemently denied being in a relationship with — was responding to a separate tweet from a CNN correspondent about the possibility of Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, running for Hill’s vacated seat.

Hours earlier, Hill, 32, announced that she’s resigning from Congress amid the snowballing scandal — which began when the conservative news outlet RedState reported the legislator had engaged in a “throuple” relationship with a former female campaign staffer while married to her estranged husband, Kenny Heslep.

Hill didn’t deny that relationship — and later apologized for her actions.

“I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment,” Hill told the National Review last week.

In her Sunday resignation statement, Hill blasted Heslep and “hateful political operatives” for perpetuating what she called a “smear campaign built around cyber exploitation.”

“Having private photos of personal moments weaponized against me has been an appalling invasion of my privacy,” she said. “It’s also illegal, and we are currently pursuing all of our available legal options.”

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