Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday praised Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) as a “faithful colleague,” however urged the Ethics Committee will examine after a Florida decide issued a restraining order in opposition to Mills over allegations that he threatened a former girlfriend.
“I’ve not heard or appeared into any of the small print of that. I have been slightly busy,” Johnson instructed reporters within the Capitol, the place he’s been all through the federal government shutdown. “We have a House Ethics Committee. If it warrants that, I’m sure they’ll look into that.”
Pressed on the difficulty, Johnson deferred to Mills.
“You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He’s been a faithful colleague here. I know his work on the Hill. I don’t know all the details of all the individual allegations, and what he’s doing — things outside life,” Johnson mentioned.
“Let’s simply discuss in regards to the issues which can be actually critical.”
On Tuesday, a county decide in Florida had issued a restraining order in opposition to Mills sought by a former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican state committeewoman and final 12 months’s Miss United States. Langston had petitioned for the emergency order in August after accusing Mills of threatening to launch specific movies of her and commit violence in opposition to future boyfriends.
Mills, who’s married, was additionally relationship one other lady in Washington. Information stories a couple of bodily altercation between Mills and the second girlfriend prompted Langston to interrupt off her relationship with him. That, she mentioned, prompted Mills to challenge a sequence of menacing messages threatening to launch specific pictures and movies of her.
“May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy,” Mills wrote to Langston on Might 15.
“I can send him a few videos of you as well[.] Oh, I still have them.”
Mills denied the fees, saying the messages had been designed “to determine whether the parties were reconciling or ‘unwinding’ the relationship.”
Columbia County, Fla., Circuit Decide James M. Swisher Jr. rejected Mills’s argument, writing in a 14 web page determination that the reason was “difficult to comprehend and for the most part incomprehensible.”
His restraining order bars Mills from contacting Langston or going inside 500 toes of her residence or place of employment.
