Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigns after late-night calls exposed

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Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigns after late-night calls exposed
By Alissa Skelton and Grant Schulte, The Associated Press

Nati Harnik / Associated Press photo

Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned Saturday. Last July, his wife filed for divorce after nearly 29 years of marriage. Her divorce filing stated the "marriage of the parties is irretrievably broken."

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned abruptly Saturday in a scandal involving thousands of calls to four women on his state-issued cellphone, including one woman who said she had a romantic relationship with the politician.

Gov. Dave Heineman announced Sheehy's resignation in a hastily called news conference Saturday morning. Sheehy, a Republican, had been considered the front-runner in the 2014 gubernatorial race and had been endorsed by Heineman.

"As public officials, we are rightly held to a higher standard," Heineman said. "I had trusted him, and that trust was broken."

Sheehy resigned after questions were raised about the cellphone calls with four women, none of whom were his wife, who filed for divorce last year. The calls, made over the last four years, were first reported by the Omaha World-Herald, which had made a public records request for Sheehy's phone records.

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Oh, look. His party affiliation is given early in the story. And accurately, too. How unusual.

For a Republican.

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1. Another randy Republican?

How can this be? They are all church going and everything. Fox "News" will have D next to his name when they do the story.

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2. Maybe they just won't do the story.

Thousands of late night calls.

Sanford jumping the ship of state to "hike the Appalachian trial" where no one could reach him.

Threatening emails to Petraeus's "other other woman."

Thousand of emails from the other other woman, a Florida "socialite," to some other general.

Obsessive much?



BTW, when did "socialite come to mean some random Florida doctor's wife who is fixated on the military?

I loved how she vindicated herself, too. "It wasnt thousands of emails, only hundreds."

Oh, well, when you put it that way.....

It still sounds batshit crazy.