Exactly one week ago, I ran a strip pondering when the next GOP sex scandal would happen (see Hot Buttery GOP Action). Well, it didn’t take long.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – A state lawmaker who has voted against gay rights resigned Wednesday, days after he was quoted in police reports as saying a man he had sex with after they met at an erotic video store was trying to blackmail him.
Rep. Richard Curtis, 48, said he was resigning immediately to spare his wife and children more public embarrassment. In a written statement, Curtis said, “Events that have recently come to light have hurt a lot of people. I sincerely apologize for any pain my actions may have caused.”
Curtis, a Republican, told a newspaper in his southwest Washington district on Monday that sex was not involved in what he said was an extortion attempt. He also declared he was not gay.
But in police reports, Curtis said he was being extorted by a man he had sex with at a hotel room in Spokane, where Curtis was attending a GOP retreat. The other man, Cody Castagna, 26, contends Curtis reneged on a promise to pay $1,000 for sex.
CNN is reporting that the police report on this incident is FIFTY PAGES LONG! That I must find. It will make great reading.
So where does that leave us? Well more proof that the GOP has suckered the Religious Right all this time. I wonder when they will wake up? The rest of us have our eyes open.
UPDATE: CNN’s reporting of a 50 page police report was in error. Why am I not surprised? However the REAL 15 page police report can be downloaded HERE. A MUST READ!!!!
I dunno…
Just because he boned a guy in the ass and was suppposed to pay for it does not make him a homosexual. He could be Bi or curous or something…or just have the occasional homosexual tendancies.
Regardless, this goes against the GOP’s standard MO and, of course against the Fundys in general. God how I love hypocrasy =/
Is this what it means when someone talks about GOP legislators having a “colorful” concept of “family values”?
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/archives/2007/10/curtis_told_cops_a_lot_but_tried_to_keep_tryst_quiet.html
http://www.columbian.com/documents/curtis2.pdf
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en_US&ncl=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hi5eZOrtHs2NAhldX5tp4so8EROgD8SKHU800
http://www.kxly.com/news/?sect_rank=1§ion_id=559&story_id=15433
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2007/10/10302007_Police-report-sheds-new-light-on-Curtis-encounter.cfm
“The police report contains an account of how Curtis 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.”
The police documents are only 14 pages, and most of that relate to search warrants for surveillance videos from an adult store, and the same plus hotel electronic door lock use and PPV gay XXX porn rental records at the hotel. The police are investigating this as felony extortion, but there’s a very fine semantic line between that and a request for a contractually agreed payment, made messier by the fact that prostitution laws drive such contracts outside the legal system.
At least this shows middle aged GOP legislators aren’t entirely out of touch. The anti-gay GOP legisliar used MySpace to initiate the original contact, prior to the in person meeting, where he apparently wanted more forms of sex than the younger guy agreed to share, and so suggested a payment to encourage cooperation. This case really needs to go to trial, after which the guy contacted via MySpace, who disclaims reports of being a male escort or to have hooked up for money at all initially, can write a book to recover his far higher than $1000 likely legal costs.
Does a Dirty Sanchez go with red stockings and black sequines? Did the GOP policy manual confuse “teabagging” with serving tea? How can comics compete with real life with these corrupt GOP’ers?
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Actually, refusing to pay the pros fits right in with Neocom newthink. If he’d paid the pros, he’d be committing a criminal act, and aiding and abetting the pros in a crime. By not paying, he’s just engaging in consensual sex, just not on the agreed-to terms.