Missouri House Sanctions Democratic Rep. Jeremy Dean over Obscene Texts ...

MO House sanctions Springfield Democrat over obscene text to colleague

State Rep. Cecelie Williams said the messages resurfaced trauma from past abuse as lawmakers voted 138-10 to punish Springfield Rep. Jeremy Dean.

Missouri House sanctions Rep. Dean for obscene harassment

State Rep. Cecelie Williams said the messages resurfaced trauma from past abuse as lawmakers voted 138–10 to punish Dean. The post Missouri House sanctions Democratic Rep. Jeremy Dean over obscene texts to colleague appeared first on Springfield Daily Citizen.

Missouri House sanctions Democratic Rep. Jeremy Dean over obscene texts to colleague

State Rep. Cecelie Williams, R-Dittmer, speaks in 2025 during Missouri House debate (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications)The text messages were brief, but state Rep. Cecelie Williams told the Missouri House on Thursday that they carried her backward in time. She thought she had worked through the feelings of fear, self-doubt and the instinct to shrink and stay quiet. Last year, she publicly shared her history of domestic abuse for the first…

Missouri House sanctions Democratic Rep. Jeremy Dean over obscene texts ...

Missouri House votes to sanction Democrat who texted lewd insult to GOP colleague

The Missouri House of Representatives voted 138 to 10 Thursday to sanction Democrat state Rep. Jeremy Dean for ethical misconduct following an investigation into an obscene text message he sent to a colleague last year. The disciplinary action stems from a Sept. 4 incident in which the Springfield Democrat sent a lewd text message to Republican Rep. Cecelie Williams of Dittmer.  In Dean’s text to Williams he feigned surprise that “You [Republica…