Rep. Donna Rowland’s attorney has dropped his subpoenas against a Daily News Journal reporter. The attorney feared state and national attention over First Amendment issues that would arise in a complaint filed against Rep. Rowland in the state legislature. The attention would have also negatively focused on Rep. Rowland’s messy divorce and controversial new boyfriend.

Rep. Rowland finds herself at the center of questions filed in a complaint over whether she actually lives in the district she represents. The question before the state legislature now is whether Rep. Rowland lives at a new home she purchased on Faldo Drive or whether she is a live-in girlfriend at gun manufacturer Ronnie Barrett’s home outside the district.

In a letter to the House Speaker, somebody named Kathy Adams, a voter in Rowland’s district, elaborates. Adams apparently did a little detective work:

I drove by Ms. Rowland’s so-called house on 237 Faldo Dr. I saw uncut grass, lawn strewed [sic] with newspapers of several days, shades of the house drawn, no car in the driveway, etc. It had a look of an unlived dwelling.

But when Adams phoned a reporter and ratted out Rowland, suddenly the lawn was manicured and the old newspapers disappeared. A Rowland campaign yard sign even sprang up in the front yard. “I find this very suspicious,” Adams reports in her letter.

Rep. Rowland contends she does not live with her new boyfriend but occasionally visits his home. Barrett is a major donor to Republicans and currently has a lawsuit against the state claiming they promised to build a road to his gun factory.