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Republican Sexual Deviants

by BooMan
Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 04:20:00 PM EST

I wish there was a way to convince the vast majority of Americans that people that run for political office on a platform of addressing some defect in society's sexuality almost definitely have something wrong with their own sexuality...and should not be trusted around children. I don't really care if you are some kind of pervert as long as you keep everything consensual and don't dabble with underage people. If you want to use an escort service, it's really none of my business...I just hope you are courteous and don't cause a disturbance. But, it seems like there is an unhealthy correlation between those that rail against homosexuality and those that pick up underage boys. Or between those that talk about the sanctity of marriage and abstinence and those that cheat on their wives and molest their daughter's friends. If you see a headline that a politician has done something illegal with a child you can bet the politician was a Republican. It's not that there aren't Democratic sexual deviants, it's just the vast majority of creeps and predators are members of the GOP. And they're hypocrites.

I'm not just talking about adultery. I'm talking about sick twisted shit like this:

Richard A. Delgaudio, Republican fundraiser and Bush pioneer, was found guilty of child porn charges.

Nicholas Elizondo, Director of the Young Republican Federation molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Larry Dale Floyd, Republican Constable in Denton County, Texas Precinct Two. Arrested for allegedly crossing state lines to have sex with an 8-year old child and was charged with 7 related offenses.

Jon Grunseth, Republican businessman and candidate for Minnesota governor, withdrew his candidacy after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter, and tried to grope one. "I've made some mistakes" he said.

Neal Horsley has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. Admitted on the Fox News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show, that he's had sex with mules.

Paul Ingram, Republican Party leader of Thurston County, Washington, pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman, was arrested for distributing what experts call "some of the most offensive material in the child pornography world" - a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

John Scmitz, right-wing republican congressman, who had had his committee chairship taken away from him in the California State Senate after issuing a press release attacking Jews, feminists and gays. Forced out of office in 1982 for having an adulterous affair and fathering two children out of wedlock with one of his students. He was caught because his baby was admitted to hospital for having hair tied so tightly around his penis that it was almost severed. His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to two of his children.

What explains this Republican proclivity to abuse children? I don't know. But if a political ideology is this closely tied to the endangerment of children, it should come as no surprise that these people can't take care of adults.

Americans need to learn: if someone tells you how to act sexually, hide your children and vote for the other party.



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Amen!
by americanforliberty on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 04:41:15 PM EST
So many small children to fondle but so little time.

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-
by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 04:47:29 PM EST
His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to two of his children.

A wingnut former congressman and borderline Chester is her father? Oh, holy cow. The apple didn't fall far from THAT particular tree, now did it? Ew. And according to his Wiki, he was a Bircher, too. Damn.

These are some sick, demented people. Really. You really cannot make this up.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 04:51:31 PM EST
Here is the list I post when a wingnut screeches about liberals being so deviant or immoral....

Republican Hypocrisy Revealed

Not Every Republican is a Pedophile but Every pedophile IS A REPUBLICAN.

G.O.P: God's Only Perverts. Another Republican pervert goes down in shame.

STOP REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA

  1.  Serial killer/rapist Ted Bundy campaigned for the Republican Party

  2.  Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

  3.  Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

  4.  Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

  5.  Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

  6.  Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

  7.  Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges.

  8.  Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

  9.  Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five years later on the same charge.

  10. Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a minor working as a congressional page.

  11. Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

  12. Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

  13. Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a juvenile and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

  14. Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks, an advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

  15. Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

  16. Republican preacher Stephen White was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

  17. Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17.  The star of Houston's 24/7 Right-wing line up on Christian owned KSEV, this Law & Order advocate was recently sentenced to 3 years in prison for breaking his probation from a 2004 conviction of exposing himself to an 11 year old girl.

  18. Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

  19. Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington, pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

  20. Republican St. Louis Election Board official Kevin Coan was arrested and charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet.

  21. Republican politician Andrew Buhr, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

  22. Republican politician Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative, was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

  23. Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15 year old girl.

  24. Republican legislator, Richard Gardner, a Nevada state representative, admitted to molesting his two daughters.

  25. Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

  26. Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

  27. Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

  28. Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

  29. Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

  30. Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

  31. Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

  32. Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

  33. Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

  34. Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

  35. Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

  36. Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey

 was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

  1. Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

  2. Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

  3. Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

  4. Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

  5. Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

  6. Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having
sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

43. Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in
the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

44. Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six
years in prison.

45. Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of
young women.

46.Clifton Bennett, 18, the son of Arizona Senate Republican President Ken Bennett, and his co-defendant, Kyle Wheeler, 19, were charged in January with 18 counts of aggravated assault and 18 counts of kidnapping for the incidents, which happened at a youth camp last June. The younger Bennett confessed to police that he and Wheeler sodomized the 11- to 14-year-old boys with broomsticks and flashlights in at least 40 incidents, court documents show. Yavapai County prosecutors now say they'll drop all but one assault charge and likely recommend little or no jail time if Bennett agrees to plead guilty. Wheeler has been offered a similar deal but faces an additional assault charge for choking three boys until they passed out. The plea agreements were presented in court last week and could be finalized Monday.

47. Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was charged with molesting his 9-year old step-daughter after including her in an anti-Gore television commercial and convicted of pedophilia and found guilty of "aggravated sexual assault of a child, two counts of indecency with a child by contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure."
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  1. Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

  2. Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.

  3.  Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

  4. Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

  5.  Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.

  6.  Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls and convicted.

  7.  Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

  8.   Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.

  9.   Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

  10. Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he was 28.

  11.  Thomas Adams, longtime Green Oaks, Illinois, mayor and former chairman of the Lake County Republican Central Committee, was charged Monday with possession and distribution of child pornography. Adams, 67, faces 11 counts of disseminating child pornography and two counts of possession. Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti set his bond at $100,000. 7/26

  12. The head of the Christian Coalition of Oregon,  Lou Beres, "readily admitted sexually touching" the plaintiff in the lawsuit when she was 13 or 14 years old, according to the report. He also acknowledged sexually touching a 16 or 17-year-old friend of his daughter in 1976 or 1977.  Beres denied allegations of sexual molestation when they first came to light in The Oregonian last October. Gresham police last fall investigated allegations Beres had molested underage family members, but Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Shrunk said the allegations occurred so long ago that Beres couldn't face charges under the statute of limitations.  In March, Beres, 70, was sued in Multnomah County Circuit Court for $2.1 million by a relative who said he molested her repeatedly between 1963 and 1966.

  13. On September 28, 2006, ABC News reported that in 2005 Foley had sent email messages, from his personal AOL account, to a then-16-year-old former Congressional page, asking the page to send a photo of himself to Foley, among other things. Foley submitted a letter of resignation from Congress on September 29, 2006 in the wake of news reports about the communications. Foley issued a statement, saying "I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I have had the privilege to represent."

  14. Metropolitan Police today charged the director of human resources at The Washington Times with one count of attempting to entice a minor on the Internet. Randall Casseday, 53, was arrested at 9:45 p.m. yesterday in the 1300 block of Brentwood Road NE, where police said he had arranged to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. He had actually exchanged Internet messages and photographs with a male police officer posing as a girl.

  15. Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, a Christian fundamentalist activist lawyer who was a legislative aide for California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and a close associate of Orange County GOP chairman Scott Baugh, has been charged by Orange County, California police with repeatedly engaging in sex with a 14-year old Westminster, California high school freshman male in 2003 and amassing a large amount of child pornography in his Ladera Ranch condo.

  16. Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged withsexually assaulting young girls (26 counts).

  17.  William Irey, 49, of Orlando, president and CEO of Frank Irey Construction Inc., a major Walt Disney World building contractor, is accused of traveling overseas earlier this year to meet children and coerce them "to engage in sexually explicit conduct," according to an indictment approved Dec. 13 by a grand jury in Orlando.

  18.   A grand jury in Cleveland returned a 17-count indictment Wednesday against 32-year-old Michael Flory, including charges of rape, kidnapping and aggravated burglary. Flory is chairman of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans, an organization for members of the party between 18 and 40.

  19.  Ted Klaudt, 49 year old former South Dakota republican state representative    was charged with eight counts of rape, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, two counts of witness tampering, sexual contact with a person under 16, and stalking. Court documents mention five possible victims. Three were foster children between the ages of 15 and 19 who lived with Klaudt's family. One is a cousin of one of those girls, and the fifth is a friend of Klaudt's daughter. In the most disturbing accusation, the girls say Klaudt had them convinced they could earn up to $20,000 by donating their eggs to a fertility clinic. And even though he has no medical training, the girls say Klaudt did all the supposed "exams" and "procedures" himself.

  20.  Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.

  21.  Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.

  22.  Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr.  was found guilty of fondling underage girls.

  23.  Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year-old girl.

  24.  Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

  25.  John Scmitz, right-wing republican congressman, who had had his committee chairship taken away from him in the California State Senate after issuing a press release attacking Jews, feminists and gays. Forced out of office in 1982 for having an adulterous affair and fathering two children out of wedlock with one of his students. He was caught because his baby was admitted to hospital for having hair tied so tightly around his penis that it was almost severed. His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to two of his children.

GOP = GRAND OLD PEDOPHILES.
Oh Yeah, these guys represent Moral integrity and `Christian values'

Not pedophiles but good repug hypocrites just they same...

Republican activist Matthew Glavin, who preached family values, was caught masturbating in public and fondling an undercover park ranger

Republican anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley admitted to having sex with a mule

Republican Congressman Edward Schrock resigned from Congress after he was caught searching for sex on a gay telephone service. Listen to his telephone calls by clicking these files: File 1, File 2, File 3

Republican Mayor Jim West championed an anti-gay agenda, but was later found to be gay himself

Republican preacher Jimmy Swaggart preached fidelity, but cheated on his wife with a prostitute

Republican Congressman Bob Livingston was about to vote for impeaching President Clinton for sexual improprieties until it was disclosed he was an adulterer

Republican Congressman Henry Hyde denounced President Clinton's extramarital affair, but was later found to be an adulterer himself

Republican Senator Bob Packwood resigned from Congress after 29 women accused him of sexual harrassment

 Several newspapers are now reporting that Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is dating and basically living with Callista Bisek, a "willowy blond Congressional aide 23 years his junior." Biske, 33, has been spending nights at Gingrich's apartment near the Capitol and has her own key. In an amazing act of hypocrisy, Gingrich was apparently dating Bisek all during Clinton-Lewinsky adultery scandal, even as he proclaimed family values and bitterly criticized the President for his adultery.

Reporters and other Washington insiders have known about this relationship since 1994, even before Gingrich became Speaker of the House, but did not have any solid proof to report. In 1995, Vanity Fair magazine described Bisek as Gingrich's "frequent breakfast companion." Gingrich was married to Marianne Gingrich during all of that time, and just filed for divorce in August 1999.

Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." But his second marriage hasn't been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated - "frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time."

The hospital visit wasn't the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off.

John McCain  has acknowledged engaging in extramarital affairs upon returning from Vietnam. While he was in Vietnam, his wife Carol had been severely injured in a car accident. Upon returning home in 1973, McCain found his wife to be very different from when he had married her. He soon began engaging in extramarital affairs and in 1979, he met Cindy Hensley. A year later, McCain sought a divorce from Carol and a month after that, he married Cindy.

Rudy Giuliani had a high profile divorce from Donna Hanover , which he announced on public TV even before informing her. On May 10, 2000 Mr. Giuliani announced at a press conference that he was seeking a separation from his wife, Donna Hanover -- without first informing her of his decision. The reason? Judith Stish Nathan Giuliani, he began dating her before his divorce from Donna Hanover, his second wife, was final.

Defense contractor, Mitchell Wade, admitted that he paid California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (republican) more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for millions more in government contracts.

Jessica Cutler, the former Senate aide who posted details of her sex life on the Internet. The case brought by REPUBLICAN Sen. Mike DeWine's former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Robert Steinbuch, alleges that Cutler engaged in an invasion of his privacy in 2004 by publishing sexually explicit facts about a relationship with Steinbuch.

Harvey Pitt, SEC Chief under George W. Bush until he was forced to resign in 2002. Worked for New Frontier Media, a firm which distributed teen sex videos

Rep. Jon Hinson (R-Miss.)
On Aug. 8, 1980, during his first reelection bid, Hinson stunned everyone by announcing that in 1976 he had been accused of committing an obscene act at a gay haunt in Virginia. Hinson, married and a strong conservative, added that in 1977 he had survived a fire in a gay D.C. movie theater. He was making the disclosure, he said, because he needed to clear his conscience. But he denied he was a homosexual and refused GOP demands that he resign. Hinson won reelection in a three-way race, with 39 percent of the vote. But three months later, he was arrested on charges of attempted oral sodomy in the restroom of a House office building. He resigned his seat on April 13, 1981.

Rep. Ernie Konnyu (R-Calif.)
In August 1987, two former Konnyu aides complained to the San Jose Mercury News that the freshman Republican had sexually harassed them.

A pastor who worked with young adults at New Life Church has admitted sexual misconduct and resigned just weeks after former church leader Ted Haggard stepped down over sexual immorality. Christopher Beard, who headed the ''twentyfourseven'' ministry that taught leadership skills to young adults, resigned Friday, said Rob Brendle, an associate pastor at the 14,000-member church.

On November 3, 2006, he resigned his leadership of the National Association of Evangelicals and stepped aside as pastor of his church after allegations of homosexual sex and drug abuse were made by a former male prostitute and masseur Mike Jones. Mr Jones alleged to the press that Haggard engaged in sex with him for three years and used crystal methamphetamine.

Republican Party Chairman Sam Walls, who is married, was urged to drop his candidacy for Congress when it was found he likes to dress up in women's clothing.

 Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.

 A South Carolina lawmaker pleaded no contest Thursday to threatening to beat and sexually assault a man dating his estranged wife. He was fined $500.  State Rep. Thad Viers (R), 29, left court immediately and declined to comment. The misdemeanor unlawful communication charge carried a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail.

Let the wingnuts know who some of their fellow travelers really are........

by clif on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 06:07:13 PM EST
See "The Franklin Coverup Hoax" in wikipedia. Of course, on the basis of such a short and easy trip to wikipedia, I'm very suspicious of your entire list.

I'm important, and everyone else is too. G.K. Chesterton
by fairleft (fairleft(at)yahoo.com) on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 07:08:39 PM EST
[ Parent ]
There's more to that whole story than a mere Grand Jury dismassal.
by northcountry on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 07:33:51 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I think Real History Lisa wrote a diary about the cover-up.
by americanforliberty on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 01:15:55 AM EST
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by americanforliberty on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 01:20:56 AM EST
[ Parent ]
The video linked in Lisa's diary doesn't work. After the recantations and the grand jury dismissal of all 'sex' charges, I think we should not continue to believe the charges are true (even though ya never know, right?). The list should not include any items that are widely and credibly called hoaxes.

I'm important, and everyone else is too. G.K. Chesterton
by fairleft (fairleft(at)yahoo.com) on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 10:26:59 AM EST
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And OJ is not guilty also...hmm.
by americanforliberty on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 03:42:43 PM EST
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It seems a lot more likely that the grand jury was a sham than that hundreds of people were involved in concocting this story. Some of the people who recanted did so out of fear for their lives. Read this and try to maintain it was all a hoax...
by methodishca (methodishca at netscape.net) on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 05:06:26 AM EST
[ Parent ]
You missed Philip Giordano, the former Repulican Waterbury, CT mayor:
Philip Giordano, the former Waterbury mayor convicted of violating the civil rights of two girls he sexually abused, has been sentenced Friday morning.

snip

"This case is the worst I have ever seen," said U.S. District Judge Alan Nevas in passing sentence. "Your conduct is the worst I have ever seen. I've seen drug dealers, murderers. What you did is indescribable."

snip

Nevas said Giordano had been "preying on two small, innocent children."

"They knew nothing. You, sir, are a sexual predator."

Giordano also was convicted in March of conspiring with a prostitute, who is the mother of one of the girls and an aunt of the other. Jurors convicted him on 14 of 15 counts of using an interstate device -- a cell phone -- to arrange the meetings with the girls.

Prosecutors said that Giordano used his cellular phone -- an interstate device -- to set up liaisons with the children and a convicted prostitute, Guitana Jones. Jones pleaded guilty to federal charges and testified at Giordano's federal trial.

snip

On one of the taped conversations, Giordano talks with Jones while his sons can be heard in the background playing. On another call, Giordano told her, "I want one of the little girls."

That republican family values story was from June 2003. In 2000 Giordano ran as a the GOP Senate candidate against Lieberman.

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by Connecticut Man1 (connecticutman1 AT gmail DOT com) on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 07:40:39 PM EST
Almost forgot... The two young girls were 8 and 10 years old at the time.

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by Connecticut Man1 (connecticutman1 AT gmail DOT com) on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 07:48:17 PM EST
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Check out #5 on the list, he's there......
by clif on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 09:21:56 PM EST
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has had sex with mules?

that is so funny on so many levels.

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by clammyc (clam227atyahoo) on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 05:48:37 PM EST
Even poor little Scooter wrote a porn novel.

O.T.:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/hedges

via noquarter.

by 1watt on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 05:52:19 PM EST
So did Lynn Cheney.. http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/sisters.asp

One way or the other, this darkness has to give....
by Denim Blue on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 09:59:19 PM EST
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Tucker Carlson says that Vitter isn't a hypocrite because he says that Vitter said adultery was wrong and he still is saying it is wrong.
by BooMan on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 09:05:05 PM EST
But Vitter demanded Clinton resign, so there is the hypocrisy.

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) first got his start in Congress after replacing former Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA), who "abruptly resigned after disclosures of numerous affairs" in 1998. At the time, Vitter argued that an extramarital affair was grounds for resignation:

"I think Livingston's stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess," he said. [Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 12/20/98]

Vitter can't be much of a man if he can't live up to his own standards.

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by Connecticut Man1 (connecticutman1 AT gmail DOT com) on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 02:37:01 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Good point Boo, and commenters -- but I would leave Mary Kay LeTourneau out of it, it's not the same thing ...
by priscianus jr on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 09:22:35 PM EST
I'm with you.  Digging things up about politician's family members is going to far.

Cheney/Voldemort '08
by wolverine writer on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 07:24:49 AM EST
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Wolverine and Priscianus, where have you two been for the past 11 years or so?

Under normal circumstances, I'd agree with wolverine writer's observation about "digging up dirt on family members."

But MK Letourneau is an entirely different story.

Surely you won't suggest that just because MK's vic was a boy, she was any less guilty of child abuse than her daddy?

Nope, the old "boys will be boys" nonsense doesn't fly any more. It's still child abuse.

by richmiles on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 09:17:51 AM EST
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Legally it comes under that category. And certainly women can be involved in sexually abusive behavior with boys. But this particular case is psychologically way more complex than that, and very unusual. She was not a serial abuser, which is typical of sex offenders. She paid her debt to society, married the guy, bore his children. I don't believe she was ever a politician or that she went around hypocritically pontificated about sexual morality.
     There is the virtue of prudence (phronesis -- an understanding leading to right action), but also, closely allied to it, the virtue that Aquinas calls "gnomé" --the ability to recognize exceptional circumstances.
by priscianus jr on Thu Jul 12th, 2007 at 08:16:57 AM EST
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It mirrors the Islamic fundamentalists' warped beliefs about sex.
by bob h (robert.hall10@att.net) on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 06:57:27 AM EST
Queens pol is eyed in sexual assault

Cop raid hunts blood, women's items

BY CHRISTINA BOYLE, ERNIE NASPRETTO and FRANK LOMBARDI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Posted Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 4:00 AM
Police raided the office of Queens Councilman Dennis Gallagher looking for evidence that he sexually assaulted a woman, authorities said yesterday.

Gallagher, 43, who is married with two teenage sons, is accused - but not formally charged - of assaulting a woman Sunday night in his Middle Village office at 78-25 Metropolitan Ave.

The Monday search included checking for "blood and women's articles" and going through the Republican lawmaker's garbage, two sources said.

[There's more at this link

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/07/11/2007-07-11_queens_pol_is_eyed_in_sexual_assault.html,

but wait for it . . . .]

Gallagher is one of three Republicans on the 51-member body. He was first elected in 2001 and will be forced to leave office in 2009 due to term limits.

Queens GOP Chairman Phil Ragusa said he found the news reports about Gallagher "shocking" and hard to believe.

flombardi@nydailynews.com

by sienna1843 on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 10:34:37 AM EST
Transcript from Fox News Radio:
"Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I..."

AC: "You had sex with animals?"

NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."

AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so."

NH: "You didn't grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?"

AC: "Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?"

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm..."

VERY DISTURBING.....VERY DISTURBING!

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

by Kilgore Trout on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 12:03:01 PM EST
Isn't that hilarious?
by BooMan on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 12:27:21 PM EST
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not any more hilarious than J.Edgar Hoover dressing up in women's underwear.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
by Kilgore Trout on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 12:34:37 PM EST
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by BooMan on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 01:25:26 PM EST
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I'm sure the following duplicates -- for the most part -- what has already been posted/listed here....but just in case it doesn't:

http://www.armchairsubversive.com

It was particularly interesting, e.g., when I first read it, that our illustrous Attorney General Abu Gonzo was ALSO a part of a cover-up of the HUGE Texas state pedophile SCANDAL at the reform schools (children being used by the guards, etc.)....in which he (and Chimp?) saw to it that all the indictments that the entire Texas Commissioners had worked hard on to get and bring....were dropped ....in hopes the whole SCANDAL would just fade away.   Apparently it has.  

Except in the minds of those children....forever.

But, hey, it's what Chimpy wants.   Whatever Chimpy wants, Chimpy gets.  He's the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF you know.   As he constantly...puffily....strutingly....reminds everyone....at every turn.

Also of interest, the following Glenn Greenwald:

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/increasing-desperation.html

Saturday, October 07, 2006
 Increasing desperation

There is a palpable desperation among Republicans as a result of the Foley scandal and related election troubles, which is giving rise to a significant increase in their willingness to peddle blatantly dishonest and irrational claims in order to save themselves. Let us begin with Bill Kristol, who uttered what I think is the single most despicable statement yet in the Foley scandal, when he was asked by Brit Hume on Fox News what Democrats might do if they takeover the House:

KRISTOL: Well, Democrats care about the children, Brit, and so I think they should pressure states to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18 so that it's clearly illegal for people like Mark Foley to hit on 17-year- old pages. . . . They could certainly pass a resolution supporting the Boy Scouts in their effort to keep people like Mark Foley from becoming scout masters, I think the Democrats could really do a lot of good for our children.

The controversial Boy Scouts policy to which Kristol is referring, of course, is one which bans gay men generally -- not "people like Mark Foley" -- from being scoutmasters, but Kristol's statement purposely recognizes no such distinction. Kristol is overtly arguing that the Mark Foley case proves that gay men cannot be trusted around young children. Many of the basest right-wing commentators have subtly implied that equivalence, but none has so overtly equated the two as explicitly as Kristol did Thursday night...."   excerpt

These -- ReTHUGlicans.....are truly despicable....no question about it.

by Sandy on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 02:45:52 PM EST
And, when you establish a policy that says...shows....that "ANYTHING GOES".....then....ANYTHING GOES:

Here is a video you will be hearing about in the days ahead -- about, among other things, the shocking rapes of a 15-year-old virgin girl (I assume Iraqi) ...who then hanged herself.

These are War Crimes, and I only hope George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney are held responsible for them....by someone with actual courage.

If there is anyone like that -- maybe in some other country somewhere.

by Sandy on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 03:43:01 PM EST
Oops!  

I forgot to put the video site on my last post:

http://tinyurl.com/2jwaxr

by Sandy on Wed Jul 11th, 2007 at 03:44:30 PM EST


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