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“People were overdosing and dying from a product that they could buy off the shelf without any regulations or any age restrictions. That’s why we took it off the shelves until you all could be convened,”

I urge the Republican-led Legislature to ban kratom in all its forms, calling it unregulated and unsafe.

This presidential declaration will help our communities and utilities with their considerable recovery costs.

I can acknowledge poor judgment, regret the discomfort that some of my actions may have caused, and apologize to those who were hurt by this episode, while still disputing a conclusion that the evidence simply does not support.

Mr. Speaker, regret is not an admission of sexual harassment.

And conduct that is otherwise permissible does not automatically become misconduct, simply because enough individual moments are assembled together and viewed through the darkest possible ends.

The factual findings of this investigation do not justify branding me as though I did.

I am imperfect. I have made mistakes, but I do not believe I committed sexual harassment.

I respect the House vote. I do not accept the conclusion that it produced.

I want to say something directly and publicly to the two women who have been at the center of all of this. I am sorry. I'm sorry that my actions, my judgment or the way that I expressed a friendship ever put either of you in an…

We have good open records law.

Last month, Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong temporarily banned all kratom products for 30 days and called the special session for the Legislature to enact kratom regulations, prohibitions and criminal penalties.

A censure by this House carries the weight of history.

Generosity is not sexual harassment.

Regret is not an admission of sexual harassment.

I recognize now that my understanding of those relationships may not have always matched yours.

Judge me on the facts, not on the inference, insinuation or headlines.

They plug that into the software and then that software cascades down so all the map providers would do that.