Governor Eric Greitens announces resignation, effective Friday
Source: Fox News (sorry)
POSTED 4:29 PM, MAY 29, 2018, BY KEVIN S. HELD, UPDATED AT 04:30 PM, MAY 29, 2018
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Missouri Governor Eric Greitens announced his resignation Tuesday afternoon amid a pair of scandals involving separate allegations of invasion of privacy and campaign finance violations. The resignation will be effective Friday afternoon.
The governor gave a news conference from his office at the Missouri Capitol at 4:25 p.m. Greitens said personal and political attacks affected his decision to step down.
I will let the fairness of this process to be judged by history, Greitens said.
The governor did not take any questions from the assembled media.
Read more: http://fox2now.com/2018/05/29/governor-eric-greitens-announces-resignation/
(Sorry for the source. Heard the breaking news while listening to MSNBC's "Meet the Press," looked for an article, and this was the only one I could find.)
jpak
(41,756 posts)Blamed everyone else but himself.
Fuck him.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)deurbano
(2,894 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)RIGGED against me!
AZ8theist
(5,406 posts)Neema
(1,151 posts)Hahaha! Double-schadenfreude!
benld74
(9,901 posts)who took back his re-enlistment around same time as his hair dresser fiasco happened. He lost pay, retirement bonuses, his spouses trust, his familys respect. BUT still blames others for his problems. All I know is,,,I didnt vote for him!!
Wawannabe
(5,631 posts)Second that!
No on Greitens.
Never should have happened.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Be warned, the trump criminal family is in our fights now
dlk
(11,509 posts)Another member of the party of evangelicals & "family values" bites the dust.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)has spoken. Get these Cretins, including the Russian troll in our WH, out to pasture. (rump is a 300 plus pound of pure insanity)
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Bad day for Trumpanzees and good day for everyone else.
rurallib
(62,373 posts)and he was gone in a couple of hours.
What a difference when the accused is a Republican.
UpInArms
(51,279 posts)💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Missouri's governor Eric Greitens resigns following assault allegations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/29/missouris-governor-eric-greitens-resigns-following-assault-allegations
Wawannabe
(5,631 posts)A friend from Iowa texted me in the mid of the day! Bout time!