Years of infighting among Clark County Republicans took another turn this week, with concern over an appointment leading to at least one resignation and several other denouncements from party officials.

Dan Clark, a precinct committee officer with the party, was previously convicted after repeatedly sneaking into a teenage girl’s bedroom and giving her alcohol.

On Tuesday, he was elected chair of the party’s Bylaws and Resolutions Committee with 70 percent of the vote in a secret ballot, according to an email from Clark County Republican Chair Earl Bowerman obtained by The Columbian.

The 10 voters had previous knowledge of Clark’s criminal past, the email said.

Clark emailed a statement saying “no comment” late Thursday in response to an inquiry from The Columbian. Bowerman could not be reached for additional comment.

Over a two-month period in 2010, and despite a previously filed restraining order preventing him from contacting her, Clark repeatedly snuck into a 15-year-old girl’s bedroom in the Sherwood neighborhood, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed in Clark County Superior Court.