Glen Casada

Glen Casada

Richard Glen Casada Jr. is an American politician. He was the Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from January 8, 2019 through August 2, 2019, whereupon he resigned his post amid scandal. Casada voted for Ted Cruz in the Republican primary of the 2016 presidential election, and he voted for Donald Trump in the general election.

About Glen Casada in brief

Summary Glen CasadaRichard Glen Casada Jr. is an American politician. He was the Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from January 8, 2019 through August 2, 2019, whereupon he resigned his post amid scandal. Casada was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit in federal court, Captain Pamela Barnett v. Barack Hussein Obama, which claimed that Barack Obama was not an American citizen and therefore ineligible to be President of the United States. In November 2015, Casada said he wanted to stop admitting Syrian refugees in Tennessee.

He voted for Ted Cruz in the Republican primary of the 2016 presidential election, and he voted for Donald Trump in the general election. In October 2016, he ran for re-election against Democratic candidate Courtenay Rogers. He won the election by more than 17,000 votes. In February 2017, he was selected as the Republican Majority leader. In May 2019, several scandals broke out in the speaker’s office from investigations that were conducted by WTVF.