Republican Ray Holmberg, North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator, announced that he would resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.
Republican Ray Holmberg, who rose to become one of the state’s most powerful lawmakers in a career that spanned 46 years, said he would resign effective June. 1. His term was scheduled to end on Nov. 30 and he had already announced in November that it would be his last.
When he announced on April 20 that he was quitting his leadership post on the Management Committee, he had referred questions from the AP to his attorneys. He told the Forum that his text messages with Morgan-Derosier were related to “a variety of things,” including patio work Morgan-Derosier did for him. He also told the newspaper that he no longer has the text messages.Democratic Party Chairman Patrick Hart had called for Holmberg to step down from Legislative Management and to release the text messages.
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