Idiot of the Week: Bill Dix, Iowa Republican Senate Majority Leader

This week's Idiot of the Week is a conservative, married Republican man with 3 children. At first I thought "well, he just kissed a woman." But he passionately kissed her in a bar, and this is AFTER the same Senator was involved in a Senate harassment scandal, where the woman he harassed received a big settlement. So, he didn't learn his lesson.
  Here's the really irritating thing... he ran a campaign on "FAMILY VALUES" and was anti-gay marriage.It's yet ANOTHER Conservative who HATES Gay people and fought Against Gay Marriage, and said he stands for family values. Then he sexually harassed a co-worker (and makes a massive pay-out for it). Then he was caught cheating on his wife.
   This guy is one of MANY conservative "family Values" guys who have done the same thing. When will conservatives understand they've all been taken for a ride?

Here's the story from the Des Moines Register:

Republican Bill Dix swiftly resigns after video of him kissing lobbyist appears online

Jason Noble,Brianne Pfannenstiel and William Petroski,
The Des Moines Register Updated 7:12 p.m. CT March 12, 2018

Family Values guy commits Sexual harassment, cheats

Iowa Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix resigned from office on March 12, hours after the publication of a video and photographs showing him kissing a female lobbyist in a Des Moines tavern. His exit from the Capitol leaves Senate Republicans without their most powerful leader.

Dix, an 18-year veteran of the Legislature provided no explanation for his abrupt resignation. But the timing and subsequent statements from fellow lawmakers made clear his decision was linked to the report published Monday morning by the Iowa Starting Line political website. That report included a 52-second video in which Dix, a Shell Rock Republican, and a woman sit next to each other on barstools at the Waveland Tap bar in Des Moines.

The Des Moines Register on Monday independently obtained the photos and video, which depict Dix and the woman engaging in close conversation at the bar and then show the woman leaning over to kiss Dix on the mouth. Dix, 55, is married with three children, according to his legislative biography.

The Register has identified the woman in the bar with Dix as Lindsey McCune, a registered lobbyist for the Iowa League of Cities.

Encounter follows Senate harassment scandal
Whatever the ethical dimensions of the situation, the political reality of engaging in a romantic relationship with a lobbyist was fraught for Dix, who in recent months has become the face of the Republican response to allegations of sexual harassment in the Senate.

Former Senate GOP caucus communications staffer Kirsten Anderson received $1.75 million to settle a sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit last year. Dix faced calls for his resignation over the Senate's handling of that case and saw protesters demonstrate outside his Shell Rock home.

The case led to internal and independent reviews of the Statehouse culture and reporting systems for harassment, leading to the creation of a new human resources manager position to handle workplace complaints. That human resources manager, Kate Murphy, on Monday directed questions about the Dix situation to Secretary of the Senate Charlie Smithson.