The resignation of state Sen. Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, becomes official Friday. He’s going out like a boor.

Kruse, who began his legislative career in the state House in 1997 and who moved to the Senate in 2005, was the target of two formal complaints made in November 2017 by female state Senators about sexual misconduct.

Those complaints led to a formal investigation, the results of which could hardly have pleased the Senator. The investigator found that Kruse behaved in a “longstanding pattern” of “unwelcome physical contact” in the workplace, despite warnings not to touch women while at work.

As a result, Kruse decided to sit out the recently concluded 2018 short session of the Legislature and resign effective March 15, the day the session was expected to wrap up.

Kruse is not going quietly. Last week he sent out what he called “My Final Newsletter (Maybe).” In it, he blamed pretty much everyone but himself for his political demise. It’s clear he still doesn’t get it.

He apparently still doesn’t understand that sexual harassment need not involve sex, per se. Rather, it can be inappropriate hugging (that’s hugging of someone who doesn’t want to be hugged), jokes or other behavior that makes a woman uncomfortable in the workplace.

He certainly didn’t get it back in 2016, when, on March 3, he was given specific guidelines about what was and wasn’t appropriate behavior at work, according to the Portland Tribune newspaper. He admitted during the current investigation he did not change, because he didn’t know who had complained.

Kruse thinks his current problems are the result of a combination of Democrats and the #MeToo movement. They’re not. They’re the result of his boorish behavior. He still doesn’t get it. Let’s keep it simple for him: Hands off.