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Missouri Speaker Resigns After Sexting Intern

May 14, 2015 at 3:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments

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.”

Filed Under: State House Tagged With: John Diehl

Missouri House Speaker Caught Sexting with Intern

May 14, 2015 at 8:20 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments

Text messages obtained by the Kansas City Star “reveal a sexually charged relationship between House Speaker John Diehl and a college freshman in a Missouri Capitol internship program that shut down abruptly last month.”

“The conversations unveil a flirty rapport and suggest an intimacy between arguably the state’s most influential lawmaker and a young woman taking some pleasure in a secret association.”

“Diehl initially declined to comment. But about six hours after the story was posted online Wednesday morning, he issued a statement admitting the relationship.”

Filed Under: State House Tagged With: John Diehl



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