The catalyst was the whole Ronda Storms situation.

Can you work with me on this? I've got some major issues here. I'm not asking for special treatment. I'm really not.

In addition, I am instructing my attorney to continue to defend me in court on the merits of the case and to only use strategies that are available to any Georgia citizen. I do not want to be treated differently because of my status as a state legislator.

I want to take full responsibility for my actions, and to that end, I am submitting a letter of resignation as Chairman of the House Regulated Industries Committee to Speaker Glenn Richardson.

It was not a called meeting, but there were several committee chairs there, probably six or eight people,

It might be a teacher that teaches, you know, driver's ed. And that's not going to matter that much to me what the driver's ed teacher says.

There was some evidence when we filed the update last week that there was some question as to whether even the revised reduction was appropriate, given what's going on in the energy markets.

Strictly natural gas and oil, that's what's driving up prices everywhere.

It would be a tremendous honor to serve my community. There are a lot of factors I need to consider.

Five miles of utility poles were taken out along Route 123 in Alstead and there's no road left. So where do we put the poles?