Idaho Rep. Christy Perry and husband to divorce

Rep. Christy Perry’s husband has filed for divorce, two months after disclosure of an extramarital affair between the three-term Nampa lawmaker and a Senate colleague that triggered an ethics review of their travel expenses.

Matthew Perry filed divorce papers Oct. 17, according to online court records first reported late Monday by the Idaho Press-Tribune. The couple had earlier moved to divorce in April but the proceedings were dismissed in June when the couple sought to reconcile.

Perry’s affair with Sen. Jim Guthrie, R-Inkom, was disclosed by an eastern Idaho blogger in August, based on the blogger’s interview with Guthrie’s estranged wife. Perry, in a statement, cited a “profound crisis in my life” in 2014 during which she “turned to a friend in the Legislature and ultimately made a terrible mistake for which I am truly sorry for.”

Guthrie, in a statement he issued three weeks after the disclosure, acknowledged events that were “private in nature” and said how “profoundly sorry I am for any embarrassment my shortcomings may have caused.”

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