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A pro-family values California lawmaker who resigned after being caught on tape boasting about his sexual conquests denied Thursday that he had extramarital affairs, saying that "my offense was engaging in inappropriate storytelling."
Mike Duvall stepped down Wednesday after a videotape surfaced in which was overheard telling a lawmaker about having sex with a lobbyist and another woman, including salacious details about how one mistress wears skimpy underwear and likes to be spanked. The 54-year-old Republican is married with two adult children.
But Duvall said Thursday that his "decision to resign is in no way an admission that I had an affair or affairs."
"My offense was engaging in inappropriate storytelling and I regret my language and choice of words. The resulting media coverage was proving to be an unneeded distraction to my colleagues and I resigned in the hope that my decision would allow them to return to the business of the state," he said in a statement posted on his Web site.
SACRAMENTO A day after Yorba Linda Assemblyman Mike Duvall resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, fellow Orange County lawmaker Jeff Miller was temporarily removed from the committee investigating the matter because of a conflict of interest.
Miller, a Republican Assemblyman from Corona whose district also includes part of Orange County, was taken off the Assembly Legislative Ethics Committee because he was the lawmaker Duvall was talking to when he made his explicit comments.
In the video, which can be seen here, Duvall can be heard bragging about sexual relationships with two women – who according to some news reports are Sacramento lobbyists.
In the KCAL-TV news report where portions of the video first aired, Miller's face was fuzzed out, the reporter said, "to protect our sources." Miller's office confirmed that it obtained a copy of the proceedings where Duvall made his comments long before the story broke Tuesday evening.
