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" The Oklahoma lawmaker who was charged with child prostitution after being a caught in a motel room with a teenage boy resigned Wednesday from the state senate.
Ralph Shortey said he was quitting because he did not want to be a "distraction" to his colleagues in the state senate. But he did not admit to any wrongdoing in his resignation letters to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and State Sen. Mike Schulz.
"My resignation is evidence of my respect for public service and the duties of our elected officials," the 35-year-old Republican said in a statement.
Shortey was already being shunned by his peers. Even before he was charged with a crime, the Oklahoma Senate passed a resolution that suspended nearly all his privileges and scrubbed his name off any legislation he had a hand in —as well as his office door.
Ostensibly a conservative-family-values politician, Shortey was busted after police were notified that he had checked into a Super 8 Motel in Moore, Oklahoma — using his own name — around midnight on March 9 and a boy was with him. "
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-pol-hit-child-prostitution-charges-quits-state-senate-n737246?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Ralph Shortey said he was quitting because he did not want to be a "distraction" to his colleagues in the state senate. But he did not admit to any wrongdoing in his resignation letters to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and State Sen. Mike Schulz.
"My resignation is evidence of my respect for public service and the duties of our elected officials," the 35-year-old Republican said in a statement.
Shortey was already being shunned by his peers. Even before he was charged with a crime, the Oklahoma Senate passed a resolution that suspended nearly all his privileges and scrubbed his name off any legislation he had a hand in —as well as his office door.
Ostensibly a conservative-family-values politician, Shortey was busted after police were notified that he had checked into a Super 8 Motel in Moore, Oklahoma — using his own name — around midnight on March 9 and a boy was with him. "
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-pol-hit-child-prostitution-charges-quits-state-senate-n737246?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
