From The Tennessean:

Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams has been in power only a week, but on Tuesday he was facing down allegations that he sexually harassed a female lawmaker in 2007 when he told her he would give a week’s pay to see her naked.

Williams refused an interview request to address charges laid out in a memo by House Republican leader Jason Mumpower dated April 11, 2007. Williams, also a Republican, issued a statement Tuesday saying, “I have never sexually harassed anyone nor have I been reprimanded for any such behavior.”

Mumpower’s memo lays out in detail the allegations Williams faced only months after taking office as a freshman lawmaker from Elizabethton in East Tennessee. Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mt. Juliet, said Williams told her she was a beautiful woman, according to the memo.

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Tennessee’s own blogging State Rep. Stacey Campfield has some behind the scenes bits and pieces here, here, and here.