Conservative Values Highlighted

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Brand X wrote:

Thanks, you're a kind virtual being. :wink:

Proposing to purchase you as a slave is an act of kindness? I think you should get those self-esteem issues checked out. Either that or find yourself a Dom.

Another GOP Adulterous Hypocrite: Rep. Sherwood Was in Alleged Long-Term Extramarital Affair When He Voted 2004 "Marriage Protection Act"Posted May 4th, 2005 by Jon
Rep. Don Sherwood, right, who has represented Pennsylvania's 10th District since 1998, is a wingnut conservative who voted for the 2004 "Marriage Protection Act" at the same time he was allegedly involved in on-going an extra-marital affair with a woman half his age.

The affair came to light when the girlfriend called the DC police claiming that Sherwood assaulted her:

Police responded to a 911 call on Sept. 15 from Cynthia Ore, 29, of Rockville, Md. She locked herself in a bathroom in Sherwood's D Street apartment and told operators that Sherwood "choked her for no apparent reason" while giving her a backrub.

Sherwood, 64, told police he was giving Ore a backrub when she "jumped up" and ran to the bathroom.

Police said they saw no visible injuries on Ore's neck, and Ore later backed off her story when questioned by police.

"Both parties have left out significant information or are not willing to discuss in detail what actually happened," Washington Metropolitan Police stated in the incident report.

Ore said that she and Sherwood, who is married, have had an ongoing relationship since 1999, when the two met at a Young Republicans meeting. Sherwood has refused to specify the nature of their relationship, calling Ore "an acquaintance."

As an adulterer who voted for a measure that supposedly protects the sanctity of marriage, Rep. Sherwood is in illustrious company. Then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich helped move the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) through the House of Representatives in 1996 while simultaneously conducting an adulterous affair with an aide. His counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, left his first wife for another woman, whom he gave a do-nothing job on his Senate staff. Additionally on DOMA, Rep. Bob Barr, who drafted the legislation, has been married three times. Rep. Bob Livingstone, who was tapped to take the Speakership from Gingrich, lost the position when it was revealed he had been involved in multiple kink-filled orgies, to which his wife was not invited, while supporting the GOP "values" agenda.

When asked about the political future for Rep. Sherwood - who allegedly physically abused his girlfriend and appears to be a typical hypocritical adulterous GOP sleazebag - Marge Matisko, an activist with the Luzerne County [PA] Republican Party said: "The congressman is a family man. When I think about family values, I think about the Don Sherwoods and Rick Santorums of the world."

On that last point, Ms. Matisko, we wholeheartedly agree.

West's public policy conflicts with private life

Karen Dorn Steele / Staff writer
May 5, 2005
© The Spokesman-Review 2005

In an Internet chat room last New Year's Eve where he discussed his recent date with an 18-year-old man, Spokane Mayor Jim West criticized the "sex Nazis" who try to regulate private sexual behavior.


For years, that's exactly what West tried to do in Olympia.


Over two decades, West rose to power in the Washington Legislature with a carefully cultivated image as a fiscally conservative Republican opposed to gay rights, abortion rights and teenage sex.

...Because of his clout as the former Senate majority leader and his reputation for attacking his enemies, no one has publicly confronted West about any discrepancy between his private sexual behavior and his political stances, people in politics and in Spokane's gay community have said.

While members of Spokane's gay community said it's widely rumored that West is a closeted gay man, they also said his sexual orientation is only an issue when his behavior intrudes on the legislative process and public policy.


..."People wanted to believe that Jim represented family values," Dolan added.


..."The Republicans represent two camps," Benson said. "One camp is about individual liberty and the economy. For them, whether you're gay or not doesn't make a difference. But for the conservative wing, adultery and homosexuality plays bad. They want to look at their leaders and say, these are people we can admire," Benson said.


...In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday night, West acknowledged he'd recently begun to seek out young men on the Internet and said he couldn't explain why. "I don't want to go into the whole issue, but I wouldn't characterize me as ?'gay,'." West said.


...In 1986, West voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS during sex. He said such instruction "is something people go buy at dirty bookstores."


West became chairman of the Senate Health and Long Term Care Committee in 1990, a key post for legislation involving medicine and public health issues. That year, the Washington State Medical Association named him legislator of the year.


During a 1990 hearing on AIDS education, West proposed that teen sex be criminalized. The bill, written by the abstinence group Teen Aid, would have made sexual contact - not just sexual intercourse - a misdemeanor for unmarried teenagers 18 or younger. It defined sexual contact as "any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person."


During the Gay.com chat on New Year's Eve, when West had been Spokane's mayor for a year, the 18-year-old man who'd had a sexual encounter with West on a date in June 2004 said "you wouldn't be in the position you are in today if the right-winged supporters knew you like to mess around with guys."


West replied: "Two consenting adults must have the ability to protect their privacy or else the damn sex Nazis will be telling everyone what to do."


In 1995, when allegations of sexual harassment involving Democratic Gov. Mike Lowry and a female aide were published in an independent counsel's report, West called on the House to launch impeachment proceedings against Lowry.


"The governor should not be held to any lower standard than anyone else in our society. Governors cannot and should not flout the law," West said. He was dressed down by his own caucus for making the proposal without consulting other Republican leaders.


...In an April 9 Internet chat, West sent his photo to "Moto-Brock," the person he believed was an 18-year-old Spokane high school senior. Instead, Moto-Brock was a forensic computer consultant hired by the newspaper to verify the mayor's identity and presence on Gay.com.


According to the Internet dialogue with the consultant, West repeated his earlier offer of an internship at City Hall for Moto-Brock. West told Moto-Brock he had to be extremely careful about not revealing "a part of my life I don't share at all," the transcripts show.


"Someday I may run for governor and this would be bad if you know what I mean."

After 3-Year Probe, Spokane Paper Alleges Sex Abuse by Mayor
By E&P Staff

Published: May 05, 2005 12:35 PM ET

NEW YORK After three years of investigation, the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., today presented a package of stories that include allegations of sexual misconduct by the city's mayor, Jim West.

The probe grew out of the paper's reporting on a sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in 2002. Rumors circulated then that West had sexually molested young boys when he served as a Boy Scout leader (and a sheriff's deputy) in the late 1970s. Two of his closest friends then, one a sheriff's deputy and the other a Scout leader, committed suicide after those earlier allegations of sex abuse were raised.

Today, the newspaper revealed that Robert J. Galliher claimed in a court deposition that West molested him in the mid-1970s, when he was a boy. A second man, Michael G. Grant Jr., also accused West of sexual abuse during the same period at a Boy Scout.

Stories by the newspaper in 2003 generated tips about West that staff reporters Bill Morlin and Karen Dorn Steele then spent two years investigating, using public records, court documents, interviews, and forensic evidence.

It led them to conclude, as the paper's editor, Steven A. Smith, described it, "that West has led a secret life for more than 25 years. Beyond the serious allegations of sexual abuse, West had been using his position in the Legislature to block gay-rights legislation. And he has been trolling the Internet for young lovers while serving as mayor of Spokane, offering gifts and favors."