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TexasTowelie

(112,080 posts)
Tue May 28, 2019, 12:22 PM May 2019

Mississippi Rep Charged With Punching Wife Could be Removed

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House speaker said Friday that he is asking lawyers to research how to remove a lawmaker if it's true that the man punched his own wife and does not resign voluntarily.

Second-term Republican Rep. Doug McLeod of Lucedale was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic violence after deputies were called to his home late Saturday.

George County sheriff's deputies said McLeod, 58, was drunk and bloodied his wife's nose after she didn't undress quickly enough when he wanted to have sex.

Republican Speaker Philip Gunn said Friday that the House Ethics Committee will "closely monitor this case."

Read more: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/may/24/mississippi-rep-charged-punching-wife-could-be-rem/

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Mississippi Rep Charged With Punching Wife Could be Removed (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP
The punch was bad enough, but he was also abusive if it is true that he spooky3 May 2019 #1

spooky3

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1. The punch was bad enough, but he was also abusive if it is true that he
Tue May 28, 2019, 12:30 PM
May 2019

threatened to kill his wife's dog.

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