(U-WIRE) BOULDER, Colo. – A Colorado state representative wrote a letter to the University of Colorado Regents Thursday, calling for CU head football coach Gary Barnett to be terminated.

Cheri Jahn, a Democrat from Wheat Ridge, penned the letter, and five other state representatives, all Democrats, signed the missive and sent it to the Regents late Thursday afternoon.

“The problems [with CU] were the issues, and the issues have not gone away. I was very bothered by that,” said Jahn in an interview with the Colorado Daily. “So I thought about it for two days and decided that I would just write a letter to the Regents and ask them to step up to the plate and make some tough decision and address the core of the issues where the spiral began.”

She asked the Regents to suggest to Barnett that he should step down for the sake of the university’s integrity. Jahn hoped the letter “will make the regents look at the whole picture, review the whole program and let us move forward from a fresh start.”

Jahn wrote, “I am appalled that we are allowing coach Gary Barnett to be a winner in this no-win situation. If we are going to demand accountability let’s demand it from all parties involved. If we are going to ‘clean house,’ then let us clean the entire house!”

This request comes only a few days after CU President Elizabeth Hoffman announced she was resigning.

“With the resignation of President Hoffman, everyone else who was a participant in [the football scandal] is gone now, except where the whole issue began. And that was with the athletic department, coach Barnett and the football team,” Jahn explained.

“Our state has been given a black eye with respect to how we allow our young women to be treated and this greatly saddens me,” wrote Jahn. “Over and over we teach our young girls that sexual assaults are absolute violations against one’s honor and respect and under no circumstance should be tolerated.”

Joyce Lawrence – the co-chair of the committee that investigated the CU recruiting scandal – said earlier this week that Barnett should be fired. Lawrence, a former state legislator, wanted Barnett dismissed for not telling the committee about a so-called “slush fund” for coaches that contained cash that was unaccounted for and raised at Barnett’s football camp.

Jahn said she wrote her letter without knowledge of Lawrence’s comments about Barnett.

So far, the only charges resulting from the football recruiting scandal were filed against Nathan Maxcey, a CU athletic department employee who used his university cell phone to solicit prostitutes.

Maxcey is no longer with CU and lives out of state.

“We are fully engaged in a search for a new athletic director as well as providing assistance for the state audit of financial issues including the football camp. Therefore, it would be premature to make any personnel decisions regarding coach Barnett at this time,” Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano said through a prepared statement read by CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale Thursday afternoon.

– Casey Freeman

Regent Cindy Carlisle told the Colorado Daily Thursday that she had no comment on the letter.