Missouri House Speaker John Diehl (R) “is resigning from both his leadership position and his legislative seat after acknowledging that he sent sexually charged text messages to a Capitol intern,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
The Kansas City Star, which broke the story, said Diehl’s “survival, or ouster, as speaker was more practically a matter for the overwhelming Republican majority. Those lawmakers met in a party caucus late Wednesday, a meeting that ended with neither a vote of confidence nor a consensus that the 49-year-old should go. That dynamic seemed to shift overnight and through Thursday morning, culminating with Diehl’s resignation on Thursday afternoon.”
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