Another one just showed up. Third one this month. Egads.
10/07Senate Rep.
Richard Curtis R-La allegedly donned women’s clothing, red stockings and a black sequined lingerie top before engaging in a sex act at the store. He continued to wear them throughout the night under his clothing. According to the police report, Curtis allegedly offered to pay $1,000 to have unprotected sex with a 26-year-old waiter from the Spokane area who allegedly tried to blackmail Curtis for $1,000 and threatened to reveal his “gay lifestyle” to the lawmaker’s wife if he did not pay.
Curtis resigns. 10/07Donald Fleishman,
Brown County GOP Chairman, found with a 17 year old runaway boy in his house "
where he was provided with alcohol and cannabis, and regularly fondled".no photo
10/07
Joey DiFatta, New Orleans councilman of St. Bernard Parish, withdrew from his Senat campaign after being
detained by police twice since 1996 for lewd behavior in public restrooms.
8/07
Bob Allen, McCain Florida campaign co-chairman and Florida Representative who
offered to blow a policeman in a bathroom for $20, then said he did it because
he was afraid of black people, then said
he was sucking cock to avoid getting hit by lightning.
8/07
Glenn Murphy, chairman of the Clark County Republican Party, arrested for "criminal deviate conduct" after
giving a blowjob to a nonconsenting, sleeping 22 year old man.
8/07
Larry Craig, senator from Idaho, and his now-famous
"wide-stance", toe-tapping, guilty-plea-producing bathroom sex solicitation.
11/06Ted Haggard, Colorado evangelical preacher,
accused of hiring a prostitute and purchasing methamphetamine, called his homosexuality "a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I've been warring against it all of my adult life".
08/06
Mark Foley, Florida Representative, who
sent explicit emails and photos to barely-legal (and barely-illegal) boys.
5/05
James West, mayor of Spokane, Washington, recalled in a special election after
using his office to (among other things) seduce barely-legal male interns.
1/05
Jeff Gannon, conservative reporter for Talon News, Bush favorite in White House press room and
former male escort.
I'll say it again: if your political party has a more open and accepting attitude toward alternative lifestyles maybe the people in those alternative lifestyles won't have to sneak around and get caught or won't be susceptible to blackmail.