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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s longest-serving state senator says he’ll resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. Republican Ray Holmberg already had stepped down as head of a powerful panel that oversees the Legislature\u2019s business between sessions<\/strong> after a published report that he had exchanged scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. Holmberg’s resignation is effective June 1. He had risen to become one of the state\u2019s most powerful lawmakers in a career that spanned 46 years.<\/p>\n Previously…<\/p>\n BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg has resigned as head of a panel that oversees the Legislature\u2019s business between sessions.<\/strong> The resignation comes just days after a published report that Holmberg had exchanged scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. The 79-year-old Holmberg is the state\u2019s longest-serving senator. The Forum of Fargo reported Holmberg exchanged 72 text messages with Nicholas James Morgan-Derosier as Morgan-Derosier was in jail on state child pornography charges. He told the Forum that his text messages with Morgan-Derosier were related to \u201ca variety of things\u201d but that he no longer has them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Update BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s longest-serving state senator says he’ll resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. Republican Ray Holmberg already had stepped down as head of a powerful panel that oversees the Legislature\u2019s business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":245075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247665,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247662\/revisions\/247665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/245075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}