South Dakota lawmaker quits over sexual contact with interns
PIERRE, S.D. — A South Dakota legislator who admitted having sexual contact with two interns resigned on Monday, saying he regretted his actions during the past two legislative sessions.
Republican Rep. Mathew Wollmann, 26, said last week that both interns were over age 21 and that the contact during the 2015 and 2016 legislative sessions was consensual. But his colleagues voted to set up a committee to investigate his actions, and they were scheduled to meet Tuesday.
Wollmann announced his resignation in a letter first reported by the Mitchell Daily Republic newspaper. The former Marine didn’t immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press, but the Legislative Research Council provided a copy of his letter.
The meeting on Wollmann’s conduct is still planned, said Republican Rep. Timothy Johns, chairman of the House Select Committee on Discipline and Expulsion.