Overview

• Armagost quit Thursday during a special session, stepping down ahead of a Friday censure vote and earlier than his previously announced Sept. 1 departure.
• The planned censure followed his photographing Zokaie on the House floor and sharing the image in a GOP Signal chat where colleagues mocked her attire before it surfaced on anonymous accounts.
• Posts tied to the image escalated into racist and misogynistic attacks, rape threats, and violent threats directed at Zokaie and her children, according to the censure resolution.
• Armagost had chaired the House Workplace Harassment Committee at the time and was later removed from that role.
• Democrats held the votes for a simple-majority censure, and leaders are now consulting on whether they can censure a former member as GOP leader Rose Pugliese and Majority Leader Monica Duran publicly dispute who informed whom in April.