SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state.
Republican Rep. Kevin Garn, in an e-mail message to House Speaker David Clark, apologized for becoming a distraction.
''After discussing this matter with my family, I have decided that it is in the best interests of them, my colleagues and the people of Utah,'' he wrote.
Garn said he paid the woman, Cheryl Maher, $150,000 to keep quiet about the episode when he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2002.
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NYT
Nothing like the "Family Values" party to display exemplary personal behavior. Add this to ex-congressman and ex-GOP member Massa's revelation on Glenn Beck's show this week:
And you have a perfect storm of seriously creepy perverts.
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