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House speaker calls for legislator to resign after misconduct allegations involving students
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| Last Edited | BrentinCO Aug 03, 2018 06:39pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, August 4, 2018 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | House Speaker Sara Gideon said Friday she has asked state Rep. Dillon Bates of Westbrook to resign his seat in the Legislature, citing allegations in a published report that he engaged in inappropriate behavior with several female students.
“The allegations made against Rep. Bates are deeply troubling,” Gideon said in a statement issued Friday. “I cannot condone this behavior, I value the voices of the young women who came forward and I have requested that Rep. Bates resign from office immediately.”
Bates, 30, is a longtime coach and teacher who resigned abruptly last fall from his job as drama teacher at Maine Girls Academy in Portland. He told a reporter at the time that he resigned for family reasons.
An attorney for Bates said Friday that the allegations are untrue, and that Bates would not step down.
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