ND lawmaker quits panel leadership after texts with inmate

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

ND lawmaker quits panel leadership after texts with inmate

By JAMES MacPHERSON
April 20, 2022

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator resigned Wednesday as head of a powerful panel that oversees the Legislature’s business between sessions, just days after a published report that he had exchanged scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.

Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg, 79, stepped down from the Legislative Management committee, saying in a statement “recent events and discussions have made it clear to me that the interim governing body of the legislature, Legislative Management, does not need to be any part of that discussion.”

Holmberg will remain on the panel, but not as its chairman.

“No further comments on this announcement will be forthcoming,” his statement said.

He had announced in March he would not seek reelection.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/legislature-north-dakota-child-pornography-1c1b8a430fe45458e95f96a19b6e1c66

[zuul]

1. Let's make sure to go after all those GROOMERS in the Democratic party!

Oh wait, that's the OTHER party! The Gang of Perverts.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Republican, of course.

[Beakybird]

3. Rethug is a retired school counselor, texting an inmate convicted for child porn 26 times.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Quelle Surprise!

[RockRaven]

5. Of course the longest serving Repuke in the state senate is text buddies with a child porn guy.

Show me a Republican politician and I'll show you a moral monster shouting bullshit projection at the top of their lungs.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Groomers Of Pedophaelia

I bet “No further comments” will be coming.

[Achilleaze]

7. Republican "values" once again: disgraceful

Repubes just love to proclaim how "godly" they are...disgusting hypocrisy.