What is up with these Republicans????

[Seahawks]

http://www.komotv.com/news/10895226.html

[lI1|1!]

care to clarify there seahawks? i was kinda guessing you were a republican. or do you think he was framed?

[Off_White]

Has nothing to do with the political party, there's just a high correlation between homophobia and closet cases.

[ericb]

all to save $800 bucks? what a dumbass

[kevbone]

"There have been no arrests in the case and no charges filed"

 

 

Nuff said...who cares.....

[tvashtarkatena]

all to save $800 bucks? what a dumbass

 

Financial management isn't exactly a Republican's strong suite.

[ericb]

touché

[lI1|1!]

i'm thinking this year it's republican polititians getting outed as be homos, next year it will be democratic polititians being outed as wealthy.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

i'm thinking this year it's republican polititians getting outed as be homos, next year it will be democratic polititians being outed as wealthy.

 

dude, they are mostly wealthy

 

one linky

[Peter_Puget]

You lefties are so fucked up sometimes it’s hard to take. You and your narrow minded divisions. Republicans tend to be energetic optimistic passionate lovers of life. They refuse to be caught in your web of discrete definitions. He’s not gay he’s bi-sexual. His optimistic nature combined with his intense passion led him into a trap. Rather than see it as weakness, view it as a strength. By 3am I’m a sleep no matter what and he is alive, kickin’ and reachion’ out to his fellow citizen.

[Dave_Schuldt]

More jucey details heare

http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/richard_curtis_more_shocking_details

ENJOY!

[olyclimber]

You lefties are so fucked up sometimes it’s hard to take. You and your narrow minded divisions. Republicans tend to be energetic optimistic passionate lovers of life. They refuse to be caught in your web of discrete definitions. He’s not gay he’s bi-sexual. His optimistic nature combined with his intense passion led him into a trap. Rather than see it as weakness, view it as a strength. By 3am I’m a sleep no matter what and he is alive, kickin’ and reachion’ out to his fellow citizen.

 

oh contraire...i think he was asking his fellow citizen to reach in to him. he was the one wearing the dress after all....

[billcoe]

Another non-story.

 

I think that most of us don't care in the sense that ones sex life shouldn't or will not dictate the persons intelligence or public polices. Certainly many Christians voted for Clinton or he wouldn't have been elected, and there was allegations and strong evidence all through the primaries of his dilances so him doing the babysitter with a cigar should not have been a surprise to anyone. (Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers anyone?)

 

The only part that bothers me is the lieing part. I don't care if Hilary is gay and doing her girlfriend hairdresser (you heard it here folks), just don't be a F*ing lieng hypocrite about it.

 

Other than that, in my mind this is for his wife to worry about (can you say STD and Aids?) and maybe she knew and is OK with it? It's her call and her concern.

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Full story:

 

"Cross-dressing state lawmaker blackmailed following late night tryst

Rob Kauder

Last updated: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 08:38:59 AM

 

 

Detectives investigating blackmail attempt against lawmaker

 

State lawmaker blackmailed following gay tryst

 

 

SPOKANE -- State Representative Richard Curtis says he's not gay, but police reports and court records indicate the Republican lawmaker from southwestern Washington dressed up in women's lingerie and met a Medical Lake man in a local erotic video store which led to consensual sex at a downtown hotel and a threat to expose Curtis' activities publicly.

 

A search warrant unsealed Tuesday morning disclosed that State Representative Richard Curtis (R - La Center) had sex in his room at the Davenport Tower with a man identified as Cody Castagna, 26, of Medical Lake, who he met at the Hollywood Erotic Boutique on October 26th.

 

Curtis, according to a search warrant unsealed Tuesday, went to the Hollywood Erotic Boutique on East Sprague on October 26th at approximately 12:45 a.m. The store clerk, who had talked with Curtis, referred to him as "The Cross-Dresser" and said that during their conversations he confirmed he was gay and was married with children at home.

 

During his visit to the video store Curtis was observed wearing women's lingerie while receiving oral sex from an unidentified man in one of the movie viewing booths inside the store.

 

Afterward he met Cody Castagna, and they talked about getting together at Curtis' hotel room to have sex. Curtis left Castagna his cellphone number and went to Northern Quest Casino and receiving a call from him around 3 a.m., and planned to get together at the hotel a short while later.

 

The two met at the Davenport Tower around 3:34 a.m. and police reports confirm Curtis and Castagna had anal intercourse after which Curtis fell asleep. Castagna, according to court records, then allegedly took Curtis' wallet out of his jacket pocket and left the room.

 

Around 7 a.m. he called Curtis and told him he knew he was a member of the Washington State House of Representatives and was married, that he had taken pictures of Curtis with a camera on his cellphone and he offered to return the wallet in exchange for $1,000. In police reports it is claimed that Curtis offered Castagna that sum of money in exchange for having unprotected anal intercourse.

 

Curtis, during an interview with a Spokane detective, claimed that he gave Castagna $100 for "gas money" and insisted that the money was not payment for sex. During that phone conversation he claimed he only had $200 and left the money in an envelope at the front desk at the Davenport Tower for Castagna in exchange for the return of his wallet.

 

The attempt to get his wallet back proved unsuccessful as Castagna called Curtis back later on the 26th and demanded the remaining $800 from him. Unbeknownst to Castagna at the time Curtis had already contacted Spokane police and a detective was present with Curtis when Castagna called again.

 

When he contacted police, Curtis told detectives he wanted to keep the incident quiet and didn't want to press charges against Castagna and that all he wanted was his wallet back.

 

During the call Castagna not only demanded $800 for the return of Curtis' wallet but also said the money would buy his silence, implying that without the money he would expose Curtis' gay lifestyle to his wife. Curtis admitted to police that if details of the incident became public he would have to tell his wife and would need to hire a divorce attorney.

 

Following the phone call arranging for the return of the wallet police officers set up surveillance of the location where Curtis' billfold was to be dropped and subsequently recovered it.

 

Castagna offered a completely different view of the events that happened on October 26th in several interviews with detectives. Castagna claimed that Curtis had met him at the Hollywood Erotic Boutique and later at Curtis' hotel room offered him $1,000 in exchange for sex, adding that while he was in Curtis' room at the Davenport Tower Curtis rented two XXX-rated gay movies for the two to watch. After the two had sex, Castagna claimed that Curtis gave him his wallet as collateral to hold on to until he gave him the remainder of the $1,000.

 

He also admitted to detectives he had threatening to publicly expose Curtis to his wife.

 

According to his personal page on MySpace.com early Tuesday morning, Castagna claims he's a 26-year-old Wyoming native now living in Medical Lake and working locally as a server. His MySpace page has since been set to private.

 

The Columbian newspaper in southwestern Washington where Rep. Curtis lives confirmed that Castagna has faced multiple charges in juvenile court in Spokane and King County involving assault, theft, burglary and malicious mischief and that in 2001 he pled guilty to a forgery charge as an adult and was sentenced to two months in jail followed by a year in community custody.

 

Aside from his statements to the police, Rep. Curtis' only public statement about the incident on October 26th was to The Columbian. He told the newspaper Monday he did not solicit anyone for sex, that he is not gay and that he got into this mess just trying to help someone out.

 

KXLY4's Jeff Humphrey and Melissa Luck contributed to this report."

[Bug]

It doesn't get me that Republicans made a big deal of the fact that Clinton lied about having sex.

It does get me that they don't care about Bush lying about WMD, and torture.

Hypocrasy. Stupidity. These are few of their favorite things...

Edited November 1, 2007 by Bug

[Bug]

But to stay on topic,

If you dig into anyone's life you will find some kind of dirt.

If you remove anyone who has "SINNED" then you are garuanteeing that there are only liars in office.

[Seahawks]

i'm thinking this year it's republican polititians getting outed as be homos, next year it will be democratic polititians being outed as wealthy.

 

dude, they are mostly wealthy

 

one linky

 

I'd be willing to bet that list doesn't include $$$ in trust funds they control.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

i'm thinking this year it's republican polititians getting outed as be homos, next year it will be democratic polititians being outed as wealthy.

 

dude, they are mostly wealthy

 

one linky

 

I'd be willing to bet that list doesn't include $$$ in trust funds they control.

 

who cares? the point is the democrat congressman are just as rich as the republicans. so if you hate the rich, better hate "your" party too.

 

[Seahawks]

i'm thinking this year it's republican polititians getting outed as be homos, next year it will be democratic polititians being outed as wealthy.

 

dude, they are mostly wealthy

 

one linky

 

I'd be willing to bet that list doesn't include $$$ in trust funds they control.

 

who cares? the point is the democrat congressman are just as rich as the republicans. so if you hate the rich, better hate "your" party too.

 

Duh, they actually are same party, they just get us fooled thinking there is a difference. That way we don't really go after there control.

Edited November 1, 2007 by Seahawks

[Bug]

There used to be a clear difference.

Back in the day,Reagan years, Republicans were right no matter what and Democrats were wrong no matter what.

[Bug]

Then during the Bush years, you know, when we were starting illegal wars n stuff, it was basically illegal to be a democrat.

We exposed CIA operatives and called congress people "unpatriotic" if they did not vote to kill women and children.

 

History will remember us.

 

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Then during the Bush years, you know, when we were starting illegal wars n stuff, it was basically illegal to be a democrat.

We exposed CIA operatives and called congress people "unpatriotic" if they did not vote to kill women and children.

 

History will remember us.

 

what's a "legal war" you moron? and women and children die in every war, including those Clinton jumped on, and all your favorite pantheon of democratic heros participated in: LBJ and Vietnam, Truman and Korea, FDR and WWII.

 

[ericb]

i'm thinking this year it's republican polititians getting outed as be homos, next year it will be democratic polititians being outed as wealthy.

 

dude, they are mostly wealthy

 

one linky

 

I'd be willing to bet that list doesn't include $$$ in trust funds they control.

 

Trusts, investments, investments in trusts, etc. The reality is that the reason the Democratic congress people are claiming to be advocates for the middle and lower classes by fingering income tax and estate tax is because they aren't going to be paying it, except for on their moderate politician salaries (small relative to their earlier amassed fortunes). Far less barking about capital gains taxes and the relative safety of trusts.

[chucK]

I won't put words in Bugs mouth (please give us your take too Bug!),

 

But for my part, characteristics of illegal wars would be:

1. invading another country that has not attacked us.

2. lieing to the people fronting the war about the reasons for going to war.

3. leaders consciously deciding to disregard articles of the geneva convention.

 

There could be others too, but I'm just listing the characteristics I think the Iraq war has.

 

In hindsight it appears that the Vietnam War was illegal according to characteristic #2. I don't know enough of my history about Vietnam to be sure about #1 (but didn't NV invade SV and we were helping them out?).

 

North Korea seems legal as did WWII.

 

And yes, women and children die in just about any war (except maybe that lovely conquest of Grenada). That's one reason why we should be a bit less cavalier about starting them (note "starting", that logically implies violating characteristic #1 above)

 

 

[Bug]

Then during the Bush years, you know, when we were starting illegal wars n stuff, it was basically illegal to be a democrat.

We exposed CIA operatives and called congress people "unpatriotic" if they did not vote to kill women and children.

 

History will remember us.

 

what's a "legal war" you moron? and women and children die in every war, including those Clinton jumped on, and all your favorite pantheon of democratic heros participated in: LBJ and Vietnam, Truman and Korea, FDR and WWII.

Do you have any reccolection of there being a United Nations and stuff like that? or are you too busy thinking up witty insults like "you moron"? Legal is clearly realative but let's see if I can spell it out for you so that even a sub-moron (witty eh?) can understand it. First, take what Chuck said, nice work Chuck, then add this.

The world supported us in invading Afganistan to dismantle the camps that trained the people who attacked us.

The world condemned us for invading Iraq.

 

Are you cowering in the corner yet?

 

 

[KaskadskyjKozak]

I won't put words in Bugs mouth (please give us your take too Bug!),

 

But for my part, characteristics of illegal wars would be:

1. invading another country that has not attacked us.

 

North Korea seems legal as did WWII.

 

North Korea never attacked us.

 

Anyway, Illegal War is a bullshit PC liberal term. Legal according to whose laws? An attacked country will never say the war is "legal", now will they? The war in Iraq is just as "legal" as any other war the US has started, or any other country for that matter.