He Was As Serious About The Apology As He Was About The Offer

By Kleinheider Posted on January 28, 2009 at 5:29 pm

At this link is the full and complete statement of Rep. Susan Lynn which was to be delivered today (if needed) at the House Ethics Committee meeting called to deal with the ethics complaint lodged against Speaker Kent Williams by Rep. Brian Kelsey.

In it Lynn recounts the now well-reported incidents of alleged sexual harassment between her and Rep. Kent Williams as well as her reported contacts with the media over the allegations. Her account is consistent with the Mumpower memo

The only new information iss that the reported apology by Williams after the first incident didn’t go quite as smoothly as described in the Mumpower memo.

“During the apology, the legislator tried once more to assure me of the sincerity of his remarks. This upset me and I expressed to Leader Mumpower that this was not really an apology. Leader Mumpower stated to the freshman legislator than this was upsetting me and that he should stop repeating his sincerity over his original ‘offer.”

If true, of course, this would but a little dent in the “he was just drunk” defense. Drunken misplaced stumblings of a lonely legislator in a parking garage during the late hours of the evening are easier to forgive and forget than than those same stumblings are repeated in the cold, sobering light of day, in the legislative office of the Minority Leader.

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