Richardson resigns, opens up to GOP House members

Speaker Glenn Richardson resigns in frank phone call to GOP House members

As they say, there are two sides to every story.

And this afternoon, in a conference call to the House Republican Caucus, Speaker Glenn Richardson told his.

“I think everybody was surprised by the level of detail the Speaker went into about his personal life,” said one lawmaker who was in on the legislator-only phone call.

Another described Richardson’s frank revelations as “the most personal phone call possible — it was his explanation to all of us.”

Please excuse the uncharacteristic sensitivity here, but I’ll touch on just a couple of those details. For additional servings of tawdriness, please consult your local TV listings.

In an interview that aired Monday on Fox5, Richardson’s ex-wife, Susan, had portrayed him as something of a possessive stalker bent on bullying and “guilting” her into reconciling with him. For instance, she told reporter Dale Russell, Richardson had sent her 49 text messages while she was out of town with another man, accusing her of abandoning their children and threatening to use the Georgia State Patrol to find her.