Above is the Fox 5 Atlanta report from last night titled “Her Side of the Story”. In it, Susan Richardson, the ex-wife of Speaker of the Georgia House of Reprentatives Glenn Richardson, makes some very serious allegations – specifically that Speaker Richardson recently threatened to beat her and use the Georgia State Patrol to track her down and that the “inappropriate relationship” that was the center of an ethics complaint against him a few years ago was actually a full-blown affair that she knew about.
Suffice it to say, the Speaker has not exactly had a good day today. Erick Erickson has said that the text messages in question are real, and even GriftDrift has begrudgingly said that Erick is probably right. State Rep DuBose Porter (D-Dublin), the House Minority Leader and a current candidate for Governor, has already called for the ethics investigation to be re-opened, and there have been many calls among various Representatives about what is going on and what will happen next. Indeed, I’m told that the “damage control” phone call Erick said occurred around 5p wasn’t so much “damage control” as trying to figure out what happens next – after all, this story is barely 24 hours old.
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