“Following reports that Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada’s (R) chief of staff sent sexually explicit text messages to an intern and a lobbyist, used cocaine in the legislative office building and sent texts disparaging African Americans, the embattled staffer tendered his resignation on Monday,” the HuffPost reports.
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