Arizona lawmaker resigns amid probe of 1983 sex charges
Source: Associated Press
Arizona lawmaker resigns amid probe of 1983 sex charges
Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press
Updated 8:39 pm CDT, Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Photo: Ross D. Franklin, AP
FILE - In this June 27, 2018, file photo, Arizona state Rep. David Stringer, R-Prescott, speaks at a community forum in Phoenix. Stringer resigned Wednesday, March 27, 2019, amid an ethics investigation of 1983 sex charges and his comments on race and immigration. The Prescott Republican lawmaker stepped down as he faced a 5 p.m. deadline to hand over documents demanded by the House Ethics Committee.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Rep. David Stringer resigned Wednesday amid an ethics investigation of 1983 sex charges and his comments on race and immigration.
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"His actions were unbecoming of a state legislator, and racism should have no place in the House of Representatives," Rep. Reginald Bolding, a Democrat who filed one of the two complaints, said in a statement. "The evidence that he was trying to withhold from the Ethics Committee must be damning since he chose to quit rather than comply with a subpoena."
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His resignation temporarily ends the Republican governing majority in the House and will likely delay some of the GOP's top priorities just as the legislative session heats up. Without Stringer, the House is divided 30-29 between Republicans and Democrats. Legislation requires 31 votes to pass.
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Stringer is the second Arizona lawmaker to lose his seat over ethics questions in just over a year. Lawmakers voted last February to expel Republican Rep. Don Shooter for a lengthy pattern of sexual misconduct.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Arizona-lawmaker-drops-request-for-judge-to-block-13721916.php
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by a cabal of racist GOPeers, mainly old white men, re-elected time and again by low-information white rural voters. Hope that's changing, vote-stealing (voter "suppression"
notwithstanding. The current chair of the state GOPee is a real piece of work who threatens any party member who fails to 100% worship dirty donnie.
Hahaha to the loss of the GOPee majority in the House. Hope that holds although no doubt the Prescott voters will put another puke into that seat.
ETA: child porn???? Ewww, there's your family values party.
He just *LOOKS* like a Republican, doesn't he? YUK! What is it? What's the telltale sign that clearly reveals that he's a GOP asshole?
For me, it's his "TV-preacher" style hair. It's VERY dated... it's also much too dark to be age-appropriate. Or maybe it's just a bad toupee, and that seems to be popular among Republicans his age.
according to state law. And the AZGOFP (Arizona Grand Oligarchical Fascist Party) will choose someone just as bad or worse, guaranteed.
