The Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly Mike Sheridan disclosed a relationship with a payday loan industry lobbyist, according to this report.

Sheridan, who has served as speaker since Democrats took control of the Assembly after the 2008 election, said he and Shanna Wycoff dated off and on for several months starting last year.

“We had a friendship,” Sheridan said Monday. “I would never let my personal life impact the work that I do in the state Assembly.”