Brown County (WI) Republican Chairman Faces Charges in (Gay) Sex and Drugs Scandal wi

Brown County (WI) Republican Chairman Faces Charges in (Gay) Sex and Drugs Scandal with Teen

Green Bay Press-Gazette - Brown County Republican Party chairman faces sex charges

This is becoming an epidemic. Another week and yet another Republican sex scandal and the details are even more disgusting and sordid than the last round or two?including felony counts in connection with the alleged abuse of an teen-aged runaway.

Thirty-seven-year-old Donald Fleischman resigns his post as chairman of the Brown County Republican Party?which pretty much runs the political establishment in and around Green Bay?after it was revealed police are investigating him for sheltering a runaway juvenile delinquent twice last year and plying him with marijuana and alcohol. Prosecutors are throwing the book at Fleischman with "two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing himself to a child."

The first time, in November 2006, police report finding the now 17-year-old "hiding on the floor of a walk-in closet wearing only underwear and a T-shirt." The next month in December, they again found the teen at the older man's home. The teen says ...

Fleischman took him to a hotel in Appleton during that time and then to a cabin near Florence for several days before returning to Fleischman's home. The boy said Fleischman provided him with beer and marijuana, the complaint said. The boy told police that when he would go to bed, Fleischman would fondle him and that on one occasion he awoke to find Fleischman at the foot of his bed masturbating.

Conveniently, the Brown County Republican Party Chairman lived directly across the street from a home for at-risk youth: "Fleischman allegedly allowed at least two 16-year-old boys to stay at his house and told one of them he could 'smoke pot and drink alcohol' at his house and not have to worry about anything...Fleischman allegedly offered the boys marijuana, and one of the juveniles alleged that Fleischman said he could stay at his house if he ever ran away. One of the victims said Fleischman allegedly told him 'it would be cool for him to have two 16-year-old roommates and he stated he would even do their laundry for them.' "

Unfortunately, encouraging juvenile delinquents to runaway from halfway homes does not qualify as "family values" ... even if you promise to do their laundry.