whoa! Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring

Discussion in 'Politics' started by itcanbedone, Mar 10, 2008.

  1. Republicans could only wish their scandals just involved heterosexual prostitution rings. Unfortunately, theirs have been a bit more lurid lately. Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, Bob Allen come to mind just in the last couple of years. Looks like a good group of family values Republicans to me.
     
    #51     Mar 10, 2008
  2. avarus

    avarus

    They should start a new exchange in NY. Thay can call it "NYCC",
    New York City Corruption exchange. Lots of movement and volatility for sure.
     
    #52     Mar 10, 2008
  3. [​IMG]
     
    #53     Mar 10, 2008
  4. What if Hillary is on the clients' list?
     
    #54     Mar 10, 2008
  5. http://pride.barackobama.com/page/content/lgbthome
     
    #55     Mar 10, 2008
  6. What if it were Hillary he was meeting in DC (cigars provided)?
     
    #56     Mar 10, 2008
  7. BFD. I can't stand repubs or dems. At least dems don't try to cater to evangelicals and bible-thumpers, while they engage in orgiastic and sometimes pedophiliac lewdness behind closed doors.

    Spitzer had consensual sex with another adult (and a woman, at that). Whoop-dee-doo.

    http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/13117-the-republican-sex-deviant-s-hall-of-shame

    Here's some real scandal (and yes, I'm independent):

    * GOP Senator Vitter exposed having sex numerous times with prostitutes.

    * GOP Senator Larry Craig arrested. He plead guilty to soliciting sex with an undercover cop in a public restroom.

    * Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after sexually explicit emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.

    * Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.

    * Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.

    * 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.

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

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

    . . . . read on for many, many more.

    * Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.

    * Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl.

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

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

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

    * Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the internet.

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

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

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

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

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

    * 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.

    * 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.

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

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

    * 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.

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

    * Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.

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

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

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

    * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

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

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

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

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

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

    * 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.

    * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

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

    * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

    * 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.

    * Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

    * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

    * Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

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

    * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

    * Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

    * Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

    * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

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

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

    * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

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

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

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

    * 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.

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

    * 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.

    * 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.

    * 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.

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

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

    * Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.

    * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. 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.
     
    #57     Mar 10, 2008
  8. Newsday.com March 6th.!
    "
    Prostitution ring catered to wealthy clients in U.S., Europe

    By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Associated Press Writer
    12:04 PM EST, March 6, 2008

    NEW YORK - Four organizers and managers of an international ring were arrested after they ranked prostitutes on a Web site with one to seven diamonds -- charging wealthy clients $2,000 extra for a seven-diamond woman, prosecutors said Thursday.

    U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia announced that charges were unsealed in Manhattan accusing the four of participating in a prostitution ring that called itself Emperors Club VIP.

    Authorities said the defendants arranged connections between wealthy men and more than 50 prostitutes in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, London and Paris. Clients paid between $1,000 and $5,500 per hour for services.

    The defendants were charged with conspiracy to violate federal prostitution laws. Two of those charged were also accused of conspiring to launder more than $1 million in illicit proceeds from the prostitution crimes.

    All four were arrested Thursday morning and were expected to make an initial court appearance later in the day."
     
    #58     Mar 10, 2008
  9. You seem very honest and "independent" minded.
     
    #59     Mar 10, 2008
  10. And? I'm not for or against gay issues and could care less either way. I do care about hypocritical bible thumping politicians who think they have the right to legislate their "values" and morality from Washington D.C. That's all.
     
    #60     Mar 10, 2008