Breaking: Bill Dix resigns

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forgot the link:
https://iowastartingline.com/2018/03/12/senator-bill-dix-resigns-as-leader-following-starting-line-article/

Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix announced this afternoon that he was resigning both from his leadership position and from the Iowa Senate following this morning’s publication of a Starting Line article that showed him in what appeared to be a romantic relationship with a Statehouse lobbyist.

Senate Republicans announced they would hold a vote for a new leader this Wednesday. Senators Jack Whitver, Randy Feenstra and Charles Schneider are rumored to be potential candidates.

Dix had weathered previous controversies over his leadership and handling of the Kirsten Anderson sexual harassment reporting and trial, but today’s new controversies proved to be too much. Over the last year, several members of the Senate Republican caucus had not been happy with Dix’s tenure as majority leader and made those concerns public.

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“I am certainly disappointed in what I’m hearing. I don’t know all the facts,” Reynolds said, explaining she had just heard of the news shortly before speaking to reporters. “I’m hoping to meet with Senator Dix this afternoon and better understand what the facts are.”

Good for Iowa for a change. But his replacements look as bad or worse.

One more edit - previous story about Dix and the lobbyist:
https://iowastartingline.com/2018/03/12/video-appears-to-show-bill-dix-in-romantic-relationship-with-lobbyist/

There is more in this article about the sexual harassment suit