just within the last five minutes, council president ingrid turner called the council back into session and she says that effective immediately, the council is taking away leslie johnson's car and staff and calling for her immediate resignation. that's after about an hour and a half executive session where the entire thing was left hanging this morning. council came in as usual and leslie johnson took her seat shortly after the prayer and the pledge of allegiance, she stood up abruptly and left the room leaving the chair empty. at that point, the county council went into session. leslie johnson issued a statement saying she was going to resign effective july 31st, the end of this council session. she later issued a written statement to that effect calling on her district 6 to move forward and then just a few moments ago, the council president came out and said effective immediately that council is suspending johnson's privileges to a car and ordering her staff to start reporting directly to the council president effectively taking any resources that leslie johnson has to continue functi

county executive, but the other four have not said a thing one of them is the chair of the council, ingrid turner and she and karen tolls are allies, political allies of leslie johnson they have been in the past they are also fellow members of the aka sorority these sororities and fraternitys in some jury dictions in the region are of some civic and political importance. i think there is some loyalty there to a sorority sister we don't really know until after this meeting today where things stand it could be turner and the other three who haven't said anything yet are in fact, hoping and intending to do something top with leslie johnson we should wait and see what comes out of this meeting but i personally thing i wrote in my column sunday, that if the prince georges county which hates its reputation, as the haven, kind of haven for public corruption if it wants to do something, to help dispel that image, then they really need to build a bonfire of outrage, public outrage, under her and force her to step down from her seat. it is appalling some body who pleaded guilty to corruption, a felony in f