News Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada to resign position after sexually charged texts May 21, 2019 Joel Ebert and Natalie Allison, Nashville Tennessean Comments Off on Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada to resign position after sexually charged texts Tennesssee state House Speaker Glen Casada lost a vote of confidence of Republicans on Monday, weeks after a Tennessean investigation found Casada had exchanged sexually charged text messages with his former chief of staff.