That was quick. Mike Duvall has resigned from public office.
In a statement on his campaign website, he wrote:
I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distraction for my colleagues in the Assembly, who are working hard on the very serious problems facing our state. I have come to the conclusion that it would not be fair to my family, my constituents or to my friends on both sides of the aisle to remain in office. Therefore, I have decided to resign my office, effective immediately, so that the Assembly can get back to work.
Duvall's action came after the married California GOP lawmaker and family values champion was caught on a hot mic bragging graphically to a colleague about his affairs with two women -- one of whom is an energy lobbyist.

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Doofus
September 9, 2009 4:12 PM
Now he's available to run for national office as a Rethug. He's got the right "background" (Think: Larry Craig and David Vitter).
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davidduck
September 9, 2009 4:16 PM
Who was he talking with? Who was the "other guy" who knew that his colleague in the assembly was utterly corrupt and kept quiet?
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SqueakyRat
September 9, 2009 5:27 PM in reply to davidduck
Banging lobbyists is corrupt now?
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DrToast
September 9, 2009 6:02 PM in reply to SqueakyRat
Now the lobbyists can get back to screwing the voters.
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eve cairo
September 9, 2009 4:17 PM
His wife of the non eye patch panties probably filed for divorce. Maybe he can be on Mark Foley's sex chat show? Oops I mean radio programme.
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Nora
September 9, 2009 4:40 PM in reply to eve cairo
So messy!
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Snarky
September 9, 2009 6:11 PM in reply to Nora
Fairly dripping with humiliation...LOL
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Matt Jones
September 9, 2009 4:19 PM
Now he'll have plenty of time for speaking engagements where he can explain how gay marriage caused him to cheat on his wife and mistress!
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septictank
September 9, 2009 4:20 PM
Gotta love these guys. Didn't McCain have a buxom energy lobbyist "friend" and "frequent traveling companion?"
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714Day
September 9, 2009 4:21 PM
He is indeed a banner for the morality code of the Republicans; "Will I get away with it, or will I get caught?"
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traitorjoe
September 9, 2009 4:26 PM
McCain's defense was "I'm a Maverick!" and besides, I'm too old to get it up. Oh and uh, family values.
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Johann
September 10, 2009 8:26 AM in reply to traitorjoe
Is that why Sarah Palin kept saying she was "Mavericky"?
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rbeats
September 9, 2009 4:27 PM
Anybody know if this guy was for Prop 8?
I bet while he was banging these sluts, his wife and kids were at home watching Fox News tell them that a marriage between to members of the same sex will undermine the sanctity of marriage.
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Doofus
September 9, 2009 4:37 PM in reply to rbeats
Blue ribbon for that post, friend.
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diamondjoe
September 9, 2009 5:06 PM in reply to rbeats
Quote from Duvall Dispatch, Vol.2 Issue 9, Nov. 2008:
"As a supporter of Prop 8, I will be among the state legislators committed to defending California voters' definition of marriage."
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Snarky
September 9, 2009 6:12 PM in reply to diamondjoe
Oh Lord....how does he reconcile all this? Does his brain ever get used?
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BegoniaBuzzkill
September 9, 2009 4:27 PM
Note.... he didn't resign because of his lack of ethics and family values hypocrisy. Says his "comments were inappropriate" but doesn't admit his BEHAVIOR is inappropriate for a family values bible thumping right wing propagandist pol.
Nor did he apologize for being a low class school drop out who got into office based upon being an illiterate homophobic propagandist.
He resigned as he says because he's a "distraction". Apparently he, like the rest caught in their zippers, isn't man enough to resign with class.
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twirling fartknocker
September 9, 2009 4:28 PM
Props to this hypocritical (family values) and unethical (sleeping with lobbyist).
Usually, they go out kicking and screaming. He saw the damage on a few different levels and bailed. Maybe he's hoping the press will move on if he's out of limelight.
I wonder how long before last night's news broadcast he knew this was going to blow up and how (in)complete his plans are now. o
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twirling fartknocker
September 9, 2009 4:30 PM in reply to twirling fartknocker
er, that is, "hypocritical and unethical ASS," or any label of contempt or derision
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DaleD
September 9, 2009 4:29 PM
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...it's the "inappropriate comments" that have become a distraction. Apparently, his behavior isn't an issue.
I'm no prude, but this is the kind of thing one would think one keeps to oneself, and if caught, pay the consequences. But it's the comments that were the problem...
I need to stop rolling my eyes now, cuz I'm getting dizzy....
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diamondjoe
September 9, 2009 4:31 PM
Great! Now he can spend more time in his "authentic Western saloon" doing authentic-Western-saloon things like, well you know...
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clandesdun
September 9, 2009 5:20 PM in reply to diamondjoe
Like practicing his quick draw?
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Snarky
September 9, 2009 6:14 PM in reply to clandesdun
Funny-looking holster, that
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Winston Smith
September 9, 2009 4:32 PM
I'm sure this will bring his family closer together and he only did it because God wants imperfect messengers.
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twirling fartknocker
September 9, 2009 4:43 PM in reply to Winston Smith
maybe it was the prospect of obama-care and the anti-family socialist gay agenda that drove him to it
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Stiggs
September 9, 2009 4:55 PM in reply to twirling fartknocker
He should have at least floated the "a ventriloquist was trying to undermine my career" balloon before resigning. The "I was drunk when I said that" defense would have been worth a shot to.
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SqueakyRat
September 9, 2009 5:31 PM in reply to Stiggs
How about "I was making it all up?" Could even be true.
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BegoniaBuzzkill
September 9, 2009 4:33 PM
PS:
www.sacbee.com has updates and articles.
Any guess as to how many million$ his vote$ on chamber floors cost the tax payers so he could brag about dripping married tootsie down the stairs?
And since Sacramento is atwitter with the 'common knowledge' he's got mistress(es) and no one bothered to give a heads up on this family values hypocrite ....obviously values are not valued in the State Assembly's GOP membership.
The guy who sat rapt and even asked if he liked spanking during the hot mike mania -- didn't bother to remind Duvall he's married during the event either.
Duvall's own bragging outed the man beside him and the party who now confess Duvall's affairs "were the worst kept secret" in Sacramento
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Walter Mitty
September 9, 2009 4:37 PM
There should be a criminal investigation - shagging folks 20 years younger than you usually means you're paying for it one way or another.
And if this was common knowledge then why was it allowed given the epic conflict of interest.
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oleeb
September 9, 2009 4:41 PM in reply to Walter Mitty
No, he wasn't paying for it. Sempra Energy was paying for it, and for the skimpy panties, etc...
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Johann
September 10, 2009 8:32 AM in reply to oleeb
Wrong oleeb - the California taxpayers were paying for it. It was probably one of the most expensive affairs in history.
But, why should any legislator care? It was not their money.
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SqueakyRat
September 9, 2009 5:33 PM in reply to Walter Mitty
Hey, they were lobbyists, OK?
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traitorjoe
September 9, 2009 4:45 PM
Sempra Energy paid for the panties? Outrageous! No wonder our natural gas prices are so high in California.
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KY Yellow Dog
September 9, 2009 4:46 PM
WAY too quick. Gotta be more to this. Guy who brags about fucking lobbyists on the assembly floor to an obviously uninterested colleague - mike or no mike - has no shame and would never resign just from embarassment.
There's far more going on here that he's hoping to hide by quitting fast.
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traitorjoe
September 9, 2009 4:50 PM
KY, maybe the state Republican leadership never liked this guy, or didn't need his vote like the Repubs needed in the Senate with Vitter.
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regulararmyfool
September 9, 2009 4:56 PM
I agree with KY Yellow Dog, this is way too fast. Republicans don't simply do this. This has to be the result of bribery that will be uncovered by a simple check of campaign contributions and expenditures. When he drew fire and folded like a wimp, there is definitely something fishy. I'd say his corporate owners told him to get out NOW.
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Powkat
September 9, 2009 4:59 PM
He'll debut his radio talk show within 3 months.
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traitorjoe
September 9, 2009 5:14 PM
Our first caller is David from Louisiana. Your question? "About those eye-patch panties ... "
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NobleCommentDecider
September 9, 2009 5:19 PM
"I am a Republican Real American who wants to protect my Freedom, save Granny, defend marriage from gays who would destroy the family, cut taxes and GET THE SAME PERKS Duvall got, where do I apply for his job?
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smcsong
September 9, 2009 5:22 PM
After jumping over to look at the TPM photo Gallery of Conservative Scandals, I noticed we have 11 shots. Maybe when the 12th morality crusader bites the dust of lust we could produce a TPM 2010 Republican Leadership Calendar. It would spread the word more widely, hanging in barber shops and fire halls around the land.
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clandesdun
September 9, 2009 5:26 PM
I'm pretty sure this post is from his son:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090719204322AAG1uL6
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jeffgee
September 9, 2009 5:42 PM
Now he can hook up the C-street gang so they can help him put his libido in a Biblical context.
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JCH
September 9, 2009 5:44 PM
Who is the assemblyman on the receiving end of that conversation and why isn't he being dragged into this? Once his colleague told him he was having sex with lobbyists it seems to me he had a clear ethical obligation to report it.
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subliminalkid
September 9, 2009 6:07 PM
His political career is over. Why not open a new line of lingerie. What else could this lummox possibly do? Sell bug spray or lawn sprinklers- the Dog food industry is already tainted.
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midnight rambler
September 9, 2009 6:16 PM in reply to subliminalkid
Tom Delay already has the bug spray racket nailed down.
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Snarky
September 9, 2009 6:10 PM
It wouldn't be fair to his family to stay in office? What about it's not fair to his family to be screwing two other married women?
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Greg P
September 10, 2009 1:23 AM in reply to Snarky
I think it's more that he thinks it would be unfair to the rest of the assembly to remain and hog all the quality lobbyist ass.
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Johann
September 10, 2009 8:38 AM in reply to Greg P
Which raises the question of Which other legislators was this "lobbyist" "lobbying" with?
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witty1
September 9, 2009 6:11 PM
He will be celebrated by the rightwing.
Each one of us has to hit rock bottom before we can really know God.
For those of us who don't fail as human beings, we're "elite" because we aren't "sinful" enough to really know God, not like they do anyway.
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traitorjoe
September 9, 2009 6:18 PM
As a Californian, I'm worried. Who's qualified in the State Senate to replace him as Vice Chairman?
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ScottW
September 9, 2009 6:26 PM
Any guess who is going to offer his a fat-daddy job ?
My money is on Sempra Energy, the lobbying firm his spanking girl works for. He got some spailin' to do at home, but I doubt his career will suffer.
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Technowitch
September 9, 2009 6:47 PM
I notice he doesn't even come close to apologizing for cheating on his wife, having unprotected sex with multiple women, or being exposed as a blatant hypocrite in matters of ethics and morality. No, he apologizes only for "being a distraction".
What a self-involved ass.
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Peter Principle
September 9, 2009 7:02 PM
Definitely the most satisfying asshole conservative flame out since Randy Cunningham belly flopped off the stern of the Duke-stir.
Just when I'm convinced that God doesn't exist, he goes and dishes out some instant karma to these creeps.
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barryashe
September 9, 2009 7:53 PM
Divine Intervention Pt. III
God Got Involved Again
The Lord promised me that He would continue to reveal Satan's tools in all their glorious deceit and hypocrisy as He did earlier first with the "C" Street coven of Sanford, Ensign, Coburn, and Pickering, then following up with His recent round of disclosures about the GOP's two main "Great White Hopes" in this year's elections, Christie and McDonnell, but I didn't realize that He was going to pick up the pace and ratchet up the intensity of His Divine Intervention.
Even the greatest skeptic must now understand that God got involved, as Jules Winfield of Inglewood put it, because this latest revelation could not have been so perfectly engineered by mere mortals to shine the brightest possible clean light of day into the black heart of darkness, the squalid rat's nest that is today's Republican Party. (As in "Party Hearty" as Mike Duvall might put it.) The Lord said He meant to make the GOP's utter depravity undeniable to even the dimmest bulb, the most closed mind in the fetid pool of Republican dupes, but I did not fully comprehend the intensity of His wrath at the GOP's continual taking of His Name in vain until now.
The Lord told me He would not relent until He uncovered every one of Satan's minions as the dissolute demon he is if they dared enter the public arena, but now He has revealed to me that He will not stop until the Republican Party has been banished from this earth forever. It has been more than forty years now since the GOP made its last great contribution to the public life of our great nation when Dirksen and Halleck delivered the large majority of their Republican votes in Congress to combine with the Northern Democrats to overcome the Dixiecrats' filibusters of LBJ's Civil Rights Bills of the 1960's. Since that time, the GOP has been relentlessly negative with not one redeeming moment of public virtue or democratic resolve to its credit.
As The Lord revealed to me, He allowed Satan to use the Republican Party and the fundamentalist churches to try to destroy the American experiment of trusting the divine gifts of compassion and rationality in every human being. God imposed this sore trial upon His New Chosen People to test their faith, but He now is satisfied that sufficient of His New Chosen People have held steadfast in their faith in the Divine Spirit in every human being. He sees that they have confirmed His faith in them by resisting every temptation in Satan's evil Republican repetoire of racism, sexism, nativism, homophobia, greed, selfishness, and control for lo these forty years. Now the day of deliverance is upon us.
Oh, ye of little faith, Behold the Work of The Lord!
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bluesplashy
September 9, 2009 9:42 PM in reply to barryashe
Yessssssssss!!
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davemartin7777
September 9, 2009 8:05 PM
Heidi Dejong Barsuglia
SEMPRA ENERGY AND ITS AFFILIATES, SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC, SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY & SEMPRA ENERGY GLOBAL ENTERPRISES
http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/Lobbying/Lobbyists/D etail.aspx?id=1268268&session=2009
If you’re an old, fat, white, Republican in government on an energy committee, give her a call she may service you.
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ivy22
September 9, 2009 10:28 PM
Let's see how much he gets from this corporate hooker, now that he is out of office.
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ivy22
September 9, 2009 10:29 PM
A new California energy program: "Cash For Spankers"
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steve3443
September 9, 2009 11:46 PM
Apparently CBS had the video removed from YouTube, citing copyright violations. Did anyone get to download it?
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locutus13
September 10, 2009 7:59 AM
The public being screwed by proxy, nice.
The best I can say about Duvall is at least he did one thing that was honorable and resign.
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