Resignation of the Day

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| Fri Dec. 4, 2009 2:17 PM PST

Ed Kilgore relays some fascinating news:

Georgia's Republican House Speaker Glenn Richardson resigned today, a few days after his ex-wife in a television interview said she knew for a fact that the conservative solon had conducted an extramarital affair with a utilities lobbyist even as he championed legislation highly beneficial to the lobbyist's employer.

That's not the half of it.

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