First of all, House Speaker Greg Hughes deserves a shout-out. While he has not shared the details of his conversations, he has had to deal with some unfortunate and certainly awkward situations with a couple of members of the House. He accepted the resignation of Rep. Jon Stanard swiftly, without any public praise for all the good things he’s done in the legislature and without any semblance of excusing the poor behavior of Stanard. And for that, I applaud him.
Hughes also followed through on an alleged pattern of impropriety by removing a legislator from his leadership role, showing me that Hughes takes #MeToo issues seriously.