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 Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: Steven A. Baden, former Republican Mayor arrested. |
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Steven A. Baden, former Republican Mayor of Hamler, Ohio says,"Come here little girl," but she got away!
| Quote: | Henry County leader is held after girl is chased; suspect is accused of abduction try
By JANE SCHMUCKER
BLADE STAFF WRITER
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NAPOLEON - Henry County Commissioner Steven A. Baden was led out of his office in handcuffs yesterday by county Sheriff John Nye, who arrested him on a warrant charging him with the attempted abduction of a 14-year-old girl in South Toledo on Jan. 31.
Mr. Baden, 39, of Hamler - where he is a former mayor - was booked into the Lucas County jail at 1:30 p.m. and remained there until 8 p.m. when he was released on a $2,500 bond posted by a bondsman. He is to appear this morning in Toledo Municipal Court on the charge, a fourth-degree felony.
"This is a first," Sheriff Nye said of the arrest of a county official during his 25 years in the sheriff's office.
Toledo police accuse Mr. Baden of following a girl in his car and then running after her.
The girl was convinced that he was going to attack her, Toledo Police Sgt. George Kral said.
About 4:30 p.m. on that Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Baden was in his red Mustang in the area of, coincidentally, Baden Street and Walbridge Avenue, Sergeant Kral said.
The girl and a friend of the same age were walking home from school. Mr. Baden allegedly drove around the block four or five times, watching them in such a way that they were scared, Sergeant Kral said.
The victim went to her home, changed clothes, and after about a half hour, left to walk to a friend's home. She saw Mr. Baden in his car, Sergeant Kral said.
At the nearby Broadway Food Center, Mr. Baden got out of his car and called, "Come here little girl," Sergeant Kral said. The girl instead ran "in fear of her life," according to the arrest warrant. The suspect chased her for a short time on foot before he returned to his car, Sergeant Kral said.
The girl ran to a friend's home and dialed 911.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that his intentions were less than honorable," Sergeant Kral said.
The girl had memorized the suspect's license plate number and identified his driver's license picture when police showed it to her in a selection of pictures, the sergeant said.
If convicted of attempted abduction, Mr. Baden could face up to 18 months in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
Sergeant Kral said he talked to Mr. Baden for several hours yesterday after he was arrested, but would not discuss that interview.
Mr. Baden was the only commissioner in the commissioners' offices at the time of his arrest. President of the commissioners Richard Bennett and Vice President Rita Franz were at a meeting in Defiance County.
"Naturally, I was shocked," Mrs. Franz said of the phone call from the commissioners' office that she received at the meeting. "He's a very good man."
Mr. Baden, who is married and has two preschool-age sons, is a hard worker, she said, repeating, "Steve's a very good man."
Mr. Bennett said he could not comment because he knew nothing about the case.
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Franz will go ahead, they said, with a public hearing on a proposed sales tax at 9:30 this morning in the commissioners' offices.
The hearing, along with a second session Feb. 13, was scheduled for the commissioners to listen to the public's comments about putting a 0.5 percent sales tax on the May ballot. Voters had overwhelmingly repealed the tax in November after the commissioners put it on the books in the summer without first asking voters.
Mr. Baden's arrest is one of numerous jolts to the county during the last two weeks.
The county, which is in such a financial crunch that the sheriff laid off four road deputies this winter, has run up $12,000 in late penalties and finance charges from the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System because county Auditor Ida Bostelman had been late with payments. Last week, commissioners learned the auditor had overcharged property tax rolls by $700,000 on a courthouse renovation levy. The commissioners decided to put the extra money toward other debt, saying they did not know of a way they could return it to taxpayers.
Mr. Baden was president of the county commissioners last year and has been a commissioner since 2003, when he was appointed by the county Republican Central Committee to replace Richard Bertz, who resigned because of ill health.
Mr. Baden's term on the board of commissioners expires in 2008. He ran unopposed for the seat in 2004. He was previously mayor of Hamler from 2000 to 2003.
Mr. Baden is not the first Ohio county commissioner to be held in jail while holding office in recent years.
David F. Swartz, a former commissioner in Richland County, is in Mansfield Correctional Institution on an eight-year sentence imposed in 2004 for two felony counts of sexual battery of two teenage girls. He resigned from the board of commissioners a few months before he was sentenced.
Ohio law does not specifically prohibit a commissioner convicted of a felony from remaining in office, unless that felony is a theft. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:04 am Post subject: Antiabortion extremist arrested for child pornography |
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Antiabortion extremist arrested for child pornography.
| Quote: | Extremist Arrested: Four Years Ago Today
by Kara Loewentheil
03.09.05
Planned Parenthood.org
In early 1999, Nicholas Morency, then 28, a cashier for Caesar's in Atlantic City, logged on to the Internet. But instead of checking his e-mail, Morency, who lived in Cape May County, NJ, created a Web site that offered a $1.5 million bounty (a sum he did not possess) to anyone who would kill an abortion provider. He even had a specific target in his sights — a provider in Kansas, later referred to by law enforcement officials as "G.T."
The Web site not only told visitors whom to kill but included instructions for claiming the "reward." To drive traffic to his site, Morency posted messages on Internet newsgroups and other electronic bulletin boards, advising people to visit his site if they "respected money."
The FBI traced the site to Morency and in March 2000 confiscated his computer.
Approximately a month later, staff at the National Abortion Federation (NAF) discovered the site and contacted the FBI. Within 48 hours the site was shut down. The FBI traced the site to Morency and in March 2000 confiscated his computer.
When FBI agents examined the computer, they found something they hadn't expected: child pornography. In October 2000, they returned to search Morency's home, where they found two computer disks that, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, contained "numerous sexually explicit images of children [that] depict sexual violence against children." According to the story, Assistant U.S. Attorney Diana Carrig estimated that Morency had 1,000 to 2,000 images, some showing children as young as five to seven years old.
Morency was arrested and pled guilty on March 9, 2001, in U.S. District Court in Camden, NJ, to charges of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and of possessing child pornography. He cried as the charges were read. Morency surrendered his computer and software to the government and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and three years under supervision after his release.
Morency was the first defendant in New Jersey to be prosecuted and convicted under the 1994 FACE statute. It was also the first time a reward had been offered for the murder of an abortion provider. Unfortunately, it would not be the last.
Kara Loewentheil is a writer in the PPFA Media Relations Department.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: Republican Oswego Mayor John Gosek arrested |
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"Gosek’s term wasn’t due to expire until 2007, but he resigned from office five days after his arrest. That put the city in the hands of the president of Oswego's common council, William Dunsmoor. Dunsmoor and three other Republican councilors were then voted out of office in the 2005 general election. A Democratic council was put in its place, which named Randolph Bateman Council President and thus acting mayor. It is widely believed that the four Republican aldermen lost due to the scandals surrounding Gosek, also a Republican."
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Former Oswego Mayor John GosekHeads to Jail.
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Jul 18, 2006
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. Former Oswego Mayor John Gosek was sentenced to more than three years in prison for trying to arrange a sexual encounter with two teenage girls.
The 59-year-old Gosek pleaded guilty to the charge in March. He was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 37 months in prison.
Gosek admitted he paid $250 to a woman who was supposed to arrange for two 15-year-old girls to have sex with him at a suburban Syracuse motel.
The FBI arrested Gosek before he got in the room. |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: Pedophile Russell Harding (Republican-former top Giuliani ad |
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Pedophile Russell Harding (Republican-former top Giuliani administration official) sentenced 62 months for possessing child pornography and embezzelment.
Called to account: Russell Harding leaves Federal Court Monday.
photo: Keith Bedford
| Quote: | Russell Harding's Vanity Fair
'Voice' Trail Led to Charges
by Tom Robbins
March 19 - 25, 2003
Villagevoice.com
Like thousands of other New Yorkers, Russell Harding never made it to work on September 11, 2001. He was still at his East Side co-op apartment when the towers were struck. But at the Williams Street offices of the New York City Housing Development Corporation, where Harding was then president, his terrified staff, sitting only blocks from where the towers were crumbling, fearfully awaited his instructions."The people inside at HDC were waiting for Russell's call saying it was all right to leave,"said Jackie Wolfe-Enrione, a former marketing officer at the corporation. "They thought if they did something on their own they'd be fired. Everyone was afraid."
Expense records, obtained by the Voice after an 18-month tug-of-war with Harding and his aides, later showed that while his boss, Rudy Giuliani, was desperately seeking to hold the city together that day, Harding held a business lunch at a burger joint near his apartment—with his driver—and billed it to the city.
That kind of arrogance of power seemed to run like a steady thread through the 17-page, six-count indictment unsealed Monday against Harding, charging him with an array of financial crimes and two child-pornography violations. Saying that the Voice's records request had spurred their inquiry, federal and city law enforcement officials described a laundry list of unchecked and high-powered abuses. Harding had created "his own lifestyle of the rich and famous," spending "hundreds of thousands of dollars in HDC funds for the personal benefit of himself and his friends," said United States Attorney James Comey at a press conference, turning "his presidency of HDC into a virtual Roman holiday."
Money that was supposed to go for affordable housing had been spent on lavish travel junkets to Hong Kong, Vancouver, Portland, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, officials said.
"Russell Harding's perks were on par with your average CEO's," said Department of Investigations commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. "He willfully and shamelessly took advantage of his position."
Along with the big-ticket items, the trips and a new SUV bought for a friend's use, there was a litany of other things Harding had bought: Palm Pilots; laptop computers; audio players; spa treatments; tickets to performances by Siegfried and Roy, and the Cirque de Soleil in Las Vegas; a cookbook; The Beatles Anthology; complete DVD sets of the The Sopranos and Sex and the City; language guides for speaking Croatian (the native tongue of his father, Liberal Party leader Raymond Harding); a two-year subscription to Vanity Fair. Even bed linens were charged to the corporation.
In addition, as the Voice reported in detail in a series of articles last year, Harding gave himself illegal salary hikes and bonuses. The indictment also charges that Harding had the agency reimburse him $8597—the cost of the early withdrawal penalty he'd been forced to pay for closing out his city retirement account after he voluntarily resigned.
"I knew 100 percent those payouts were wrong," said Beverly Ratcliffe, a former administrator at the agency, who said she quit rather than go along with Harding's plan.
Like Harding's reimbursement for his two-pack-a-day cigarette habit and his daily dipping into his office's petty cash to pay for his morning bagel—neither of which were listed in the indictment—it was the little conceits that stood out in the federal charges.
In a last-minute spending spree, days before the end of his term as president of the corporation in January 2002, Harding went to Borders Books & Music and, as the Voice reported last year, charged travel guides to Bali and Singapore. What we didn't know then, but do know now—after a year-long investigation by the federal Customs Department and the city's Department of Investigation—is that he charged the $98.32 expense to a Christmas party for children of the corporation's employees.
When the Voice sought Harding's expense records in 2000, he initially doled out a meager group of documents. When the newspaper pressed for more, he stalled for months, then, in a letter he compelled underlings to sign, swore that they had all been lost. This week, those actions became counts in a federal indictment. Harding had directed his aides to conceal detailed Diner's Club bills, the charges state. He had also allegedly told another HDC employee—believed to be his former top aide and traveling companion, Luke Cusack—to put the boss's expenses on his own credit card.
Further, he ordered corporation employees to "shred paper records and erase computer files in such a way that they could not be recovered," according to the indictment. Combined with the disturbing charges of receipt and possession of child pornography (the indictment alleges he had 10 still photographs and a movie), those accusations lent an air of shame to Monday's proceedings, one far deeper than that which usually surrounds scoundrels caught feasting at the public trough.
All this occurred on the watch of the administration of Rudy Giuliani, who rose to fame as a prosecutor by catching municipal crooks. In June 1998, when a Daily News article reported that Harding, who lacked both a college degree and financial know-how, had been appointed to the post by Giuliani, the then mayor barked back that Harding would do his job with "exceptional skill and ability." He insisted that Harding's well-connected father, Giuliani's political mentor, had nothing to do with the hire. On Monday, Giuliani marched in the St. Patrick's Day Parade but refused all comment through his spokesperson.
City and federal agents arrested Harding at his East 62nd Street home at a little after seven that morning. Harding spent the rest of the morning and much of the afternoon in holding pens at U.S. District Court. At a little after 4 p.m., he emerged through a side door into the courtroom of Judge Lewis Kaplan. Harding had been able to don a dark suit before the agents took him away, but there had been no time to shave, and he wore a heavy weekend's worth of beard and a hangdog expression as he took a seat alongside his lawyer, Gerald Shargel. Behind him, his father, Raymond, sat in the second row, courteously declining all comment to the reporters who besieged him.
After a not-guilty plea was entered into the record, defense and prosecution attorneys told the court that they had agreed on a bail package consisting of $500,000 in bonds co-signed by Harding's father and mother (who was away on a trip and blissfully spared the sight of her son in the dock). There was also an agreement that Harding, 38, would continue to see his own therapist and be evaluated by an outside doctor. In an indication of the family's tense situation, it was made a condition of bail that Russell Harding be in "daily telephone contact with his father."
After the hearings, lawyer Shargel criticized the government as "somewhat brutish" for having arrested his client at home, instead of allowing him to surrender. "He's known for months that this day would come," Shargel said. But some officials familiar with the case said that the decision not to give Harding the usual prior notice accorded white collar defendants was motivated less by fear that he might flee than by concern for his mental state and worry that he might do harm to himself once he knew indictment was certain.
Shargel, however, said his client was in "strong mental health" and fully competent to stand trial. At one point several weeks ago, law enforcement officials were hopeful that a deal would be struck in which Harding would have agreed to plead guilty and serve a substantial prison term. That plan collapsed, however. And as one watched Harding trailing behind Shargel into a welter of TV cameras on Worth Street outside the federal court on Monday, the suspicion lingered that, despite his troubles, he didn't mind the cameras' steady attention.
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| Quote: | Included in that potential for harm, said Sawyers, was Harding's alleged pursuit of sex with children.
Shargel declined to comment about the child-sex allegations concerning his client. He declined as well to respond to questions about troubling Internet postings from someone using screen names listed to Harding—postings that had nothing to do with Sawyers.
One such listing was posted in October 1997 on a bulletin board called "nyc.personal." A person using the screen name "JockCop7@aol.com" posted a notice with the heading "Looking for Dads&Sons in NYC." The message read, "If ur a dad w/a yng son, I'm looking to hook with u. Please im [instant message] me." (Another visitor to the bulletin board responded, "You are SICK!!!!!")
The JockCop7 screen name is listed on the Switchboard.com e-mail directory as one of five names used by an R.A. Harding with the same home address as Russell Harding. Also listed for the same name and address are several other logons, including "Dadsons711," "Nyc1711," and "Edc16309." Prior to joining HDC, Harding worked for the city's Economic Development Corporation, commonly referred to by its initials, EDC.
Another ad, seeking "teenage muscle," was posted on a Web bulletin board called "Muscle-Minded Married Men" by the Nyc1711@aol.com screen name.
According to Sawyers, Harding often spoke of his interest in sex with young boys during their chats, and spoke of plans to re-visit Thailand, where he had once taken a sex tour. This January, in his last days on the job, Harding booked a $10,000 trip to Southeast Asia, including several stops in Thailand, and billed it to the housing corporation. The reservation was later canceled after the Voice obtained Harding's travel records through a Freedom of Information request, and Harding later repaid the city for $500 in cancellation penalties.
In a December 1999 exchange with Sawyers, Harding allegedly stated his interests directly: "I sometimes wonder if you fully understand that I'm a pedophile who needs yng boys to be totally happy." Sawyers responded in an e-mail, asking Harding not to discuss the issue with him. "I am willing to be your friend, but I really don't want any part of your personal life where boys are concerned. . . . I don't judge you or anything for who you are, but please understand I do not want a part of it."
Harding allegedly responded by saying he understood and they would remain friends. But Harding persisited. In May 2001, he expressed his frustration at not finding boys. "I'd love to find a kid in high school still though or younger . . . but [it's] just too risky looking for that yng anymore."
The Private Lives of Russell Harding |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: Repub. anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling a |
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Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
| Quote: | Thwarted adoption strands child in abusive home
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By Rex W. Huppke, Associated Press writer
INDIANAPOLIS -- Finally Craig Peterson was going to be a father. Four adopted children would soon fill the empty halls of his two-story suburban Indianapolis home, share the comfortable life he'd built as a successful salesman.
The hard part of adopting a family was over, or so he thought.
When Peterson started the adoption process, he knew he would have to overcome the stigma of being single and gay. He found a group of siblings, three boys and a girl, all black and all brain-damaged from fetal alcohol syndrome. They were kids that required special attention, kids others looking to adopt might pass over.
Peterson, who is white, went through months of interviews and training. He picked out schools, learned how the kids' disabilities, including short attention spans and learning problems, could be handled. His effort paid off. The adoption board voted unanimously to place the kids with him.
But then the little girl's foster parents, Saundra and Earl "Butch" Kimmerling, learned about Peterson's sexual orientation. They protested, rallying state and local politicians to their side.
They were certain they were right -- certain that a homosexual could not be a good parent, and that a heterosexual would be.
But this is not an age of certainty.
The story of this little girl (call her Mary, though that is not her name) is a cautionary tale about assumptions made at a time when the definition of a family is elastic and blurred.
You see, the Kimmerlings fought to keep Peterson from adopting the girl, and they won. As it turns out, Mary didn't.
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Peterson remembers the excitement he felt in August, 1998, as the adoption was coming together, before the debate over his parenting ability began.
Mary, now 9, was to be the first to move in. The boys, who lived together in a separate foster home in Anderson, were to follow a week later. Mary's upstairs room was ready: flowered wallpaper, a desk for studying and a pile of pillows on the bed.
But then the Kimmerlings -- who have shared their home with nearly 50 foster children -- learned Peterson is gay. That was too much for the churchgoing couple to bear.
The story hit the local newspaper, with Earl Kimmerling saying adoption by a homosexual was against God's will and it would be unjust to place Mary in an "immoral" household.
In a letter to the editor of The Indianapolis Star, the Kimmerlings wrote: "Girls need mothers so they can learn what it is to be a woman; they need fathers so they know how to interact with the opposite sex."
The Kimmerlings' pastor, Brad Brizendine of Center of Faith Church, had started sending letters to churches throughout Madison County, urging them to oppose the adoption. Anderson Mayor Mark Lawler publicly supported the Kimmerlings.
So did Republican state Reps. Woody Burton and Jack Lutz, who sponsored a bill to ban adoptions by homosexuals in Indiana. It was defeated in the Senate last year.
Within a week of learning that Peterson is gay, the Kimmerlings filed to adopt Mary.
"We have her and we're a family," Saundra Kimmerling said at the time. "We've been a family and now it's going to be official."
Peterson couldn't believe what was happening. Fearing he might lose all four kids, he pushed ahead with adopting the three boys, ages 4 to 6, who were placed with him over Labor Day weekend 1998. Peterson's homosexuality was never an issue in getting the boys, perhaps because the boys' foster parents never expressed concern about it.
In December 1998, at proceedings attended by Mayor Lawler, the Kimmerlings' adoption of Mary was made final.
Despite a push by adoption agencies to keep siblings together, Mary and her brothers were separated, and there was little Peterson could do.
"The whole things was just like a real odd movie," Peterson said. "Like a scary movie or something."
He believed Bruce Stansberry, director of Madison County's Division of Family and Children, had caved in to public pressure surrounding the case. Stansberry referred all questions to the state office; representatives there said the adoption was handled appropriately.
What nobody was aware of at the time was what had been going on for months inside Mary's pink-walled bedroom.
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The last time it happened was May 10, 1998.
It was morning, just like always. Mary's mother left for work, her father came into her bedroom, sat on the bed and touched her, made her touch him as well.
She had wanted to tell her mother for nearly a year; but every time the 8-year-old tried, Earl Kimmerling was there, giving a look that scared her.
It was a Tuesday evening, May 11, 1999, when Mary finally told Saundra Kimmerling what had been happening.
According to Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings, the mother went into the little girl's room and found what she believed to be secretions from sexual activity on the bed sheets. She stripped the bed and put the sheets in the washing machine. But she didn't turn it on. Instead, she took Mary to the Anderson Police Department.
Before Detective Dale Koons, Mary gave videotaped testimony of the abuse. "She told about her father, Earl Kimmerling, engaging her in sexual activities quite frequently, most often in the morning upon waking her for school," according to a supplemental case report.
The same day, Earl Kimmerling, who worked for the Indiana Department of Transportation, met with Koons and admitted to many of the abuse charges, saying he started molesting her in April or May of 1998 and had continued the encounters about once every two or three weeks since.
The unwashed bed sheets were found during a police search of the Kimmerling home. Kimmerling's DNA matched that found on the sheets.
On Jan. 13 of this year, with Peterson present, Kimmerling pleaded guilty to four counts of child molestation. Peterson wept as the charges were read.
The Kimmerlings separated after the charges were filed, and Mary remains with Saundra Kimmerling, who has refused any comment. Earl Kimmerling, 52, is serving a 40-year sentence. |
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| Quote: | TODD CUNNINGHAM--SON OF U.S. REP. RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM (R-CA):
In Boston, Todd Cunningham, 29, was sentenced on November 17 to 2-1/2 years in federal prison for marijuana smuggling. Rep. Cunningham, who has supported the death penalty for drug traffickers, made a tearful plea to U.S. Judge Reginald C. Lindsay for leniency for his son. Prosecutors supported the sentence, which is half the mandatory five-year term for such an offense, because Cunningham provided information about other offenders involved in the smuggling operation. It was Cunningham's first conviction (Bill Murphy, "Son of lawmaker sentenced to prison," SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE, November 18, 1998).
Prosecutors had agreed to recommend a 14-to-18-month term in boot camp and a halfway house for Cunningham, but the Representative's son tested positive three times for cocaine while released on bail. On the day of the third failed drug test, Cunningham tried to escape authorities by jumping out a window onto a restaurant roof, breaking his leg. He is scheduled to participate in drug treatment while in prison, which, if successful, may reduce his sentence by as much as a year.
Todd Cunningham was arrested on January 17, 1997, by DEA agents for flying more than 400 pounds of marijuana into Lawrence Municipal Airport in North Andover, Massachusetts (see "U.S. Rep. Cunp;ningham's Son Charged With Drug Trafficking," NEWSBRIEFS, February 1997, p. 30).
On August 14, 1997, Cunningham pleaded guilty to possession and conspiracy to sell marijuana. He also admitted to helping smuggle two other shipments of marijuana out of California (Bill Murphy, "Lawp;maker's son pleads guilty," SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE,, August 15, 1998). sonic.net |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject: CLAUDE SHELBY--SON OF SEN. RICHARD SHELBY ARRESTED |
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| Quote: | CLAUDE SHELBY--SON OF SEN. RICHARD SHELBY (R-AL)
On July 24, authorities at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport arrested Claude Shelby, the youngest son of US Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), for possession of 13.8 grams of hashish. Claude Shelby, 32, is married and has one child. Sen. Shelby is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ("Drug Charge," USA TODAY, July 29, 1998, p. 6A).
U.S. Customs Service inspectors found the hashish in Shelby's possession using a drug-sniffing dog. Shelby, who had arrived on a flight from London, was issued a $500 fine, which he paid on the spot. He was then turned over to the Clayton County Sheriff's Department for state prosecution.
Responding to the incident, Sen. Richard Shelby said that he and his family were "shocked and saddened" by the charge but that he would "stand by him through this difficult ordeal." The senior Shelby added, "My position on fighting drugs is well known. It continues to be a priority for me regardless of personal circumstances."
"The senator may find it hard to be stoic if his drug-fighting colleagues in the House have their way," said Monica Pratt, communications director for Families Against Mandatory Minimums, in an op-ed in the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. Pratt was referring to the "Drug Importer Death Penalty Act" (HR 41), introduced by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), which would mandate a life sentence without parole for offenders who import "100 usual dosage amounts" of a controlled substance, and a death sentence for such offenders with a prior conviction for a similar drug offense. The measure does not define what amounts constitute "100 usual dosages." Pratt said, "Under this broad definition, Claude Shelby's 13.8 grams of hashish could be enough to qualify him for life imprisonment (Monica Pratt, "Congress Comes into the Courtroom," ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, August 12, 1998). The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines provide that 1 gram of hashish is the equivalent of 5 grams of marijuana and that 1 gram of marijuana is two doses.
"Luckily for the senior Shelby, he will not know the pain of visiting his son in prison for the rest of his life. . . . Perhaps his son's brush with the law will convince the senator that life-and-death sentencing policies are not trifling matters to be bandied about during election-year politicking," said Pratt.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: DARLENE WATTS--SISTER OF U.S. REP. J.C. WATTS ARRESTED |
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| Quote: | DARLENE WATTS--SISTER OF U.S. REP. J.C. WATTS (R-OK), the new House Republican Caucus Chairman, the number-four position in the House leadership: Darlene Watts, 34, was given a seven-year suspended sentence after successfully completing a boot camp program for nonviolent offenders. Darlene Watts was charged with possession and distribution of marijuana, methamphetamine, and drug paraphernalia, and maintaining a property where drugs were kept. She pleaded guilty to six drug-related counts in March 1998 (Associated Press, "Watts' Kin Gets Term Suspended," July 20, 1998).
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: CINDY McCAIN--Wife of Sen. John McCain steals drugs. |
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| Quote: | CINDY McCAIN--Wife of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ):
In 1995, Cindy McCain admitted to stealing Percocet® and Vicodin® from the American Voluntary Medical Team, which provides humanitarian aid to Third World countries. The two narcotic painkillers are Schedule II drugs, in the same category as cocaine and opium. Sen. McCain is the chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Cindy McCain became addicted to the drugs after undergoing back surgery. However, instead of prosecution, the senator's wife was allowed to enter a pretrial diversion program. An editorial writer in the Arizona Republic noted: "Conservatives seemed to achieve some sort of drug-rehab epiphany when Ms. McCain made her announcement. Newspapers that often used words such as drug addict and thug as describing the same person suddenly had a new sensitivity to the problem" (Doug MacEachern, "Painkillers Took Over Her Life," SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, August 23, 1995, p. 8A; James Bovard, "Prison Sentences of the Politically Connected," PLAYBOY, April 1997, p. 46).
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:48 am Post subject: “Flat Daddy” and “Flat Mommy” |
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Hey Dad, I'm hungry...hey...Dad....Dad!
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“Maine National Guard members in Iraq and Afghanistan are never far from the thoughts of their loved ones.
But now, thanks to a popular family-support program, they’re even closer.
Welcome to the “Flat Daddy” and “Flat Mommy” phenomenon, in which life-size cutouts of deployed service members are given by the Maine National Guard to spouses, children, and relatives back home.
The Flat Daddies ride in cars, sit at the dinner table, visit the dentist, and even are brought to confession, according to their significant others on the home front.”
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:38 am Post subject: DAN BURTON II--Son of U.S. Rep. Dan Burton |
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| Quote: | DAN BURTON II--Son of U.S. Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN):
In January 1994, Dan Burton, Jr., was arrested in Louisiana for transporting nearly eight pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his car. Rep. Burton is the chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. Six months later, Burton was arrested again, this time at his Indianapolis apartment, where police found thirty marijuana plants and a shotgun with ammunition. Federal prosecutors declined to prosecute the case; Indiana prosecutors recommended dismissal of the charges against Burton; and a Louisiana judge sentenced him to community service (Associated Press, "Congressman's Son Arrested With 7 Pounds of Marijuana," GARY POST-TRIBUNE, January 14, 1994, p. B5; Eric Schlosser, "More Reefer Madness," ATLANTIC MONTHLY, April 1997, pp. 90-102).
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:50 am Post subject: Novak, Vice Chairman,Treasurer of Republican Party arrested. |
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| Quote: | GOP figure faces charges of money laundering
By Shelley Murphy and Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff
Boston.com
September 14, 2005
The vice chairman and former treasurer of the Massachusetts Republican Party was arrested yesterday on federal money-laundering charges after he allegedly deposited thousands of dollars in drug profits in a Brockton bank for a jailed client.
Lawrence P. Novak, a 54-year-old lawyer who is running for the Brockton City Council on an anticrime platform, was secretly recorded arranging to hide $107,000 for his client, an accused drug dealer, according to an affidavit filed in US District Court in Boston by an Internal Revenue Service agent.
''You need to cleanse the money," Novak allegedly told Scott Holyoke, who is jailed without bail while awaiting trial on federal drug charges, according to the affidavit.
Novak also boasted that he could help Holyoke get his prior state conviction overturned by falsely claiming that the judge who presided over the case never advised him of his rights, according to the affidavit.
After appearing in court briefly yesterday, Novak was released on a $25,000 unsecured bond by US Magistrate Judge Robert B. Collings, who set an Oct. 3 hearing date in the case.
Novak, who left the courthouse with his lawyer, Scott Lopez, refused to comment on the charges. ''On the advice of counsel, I can say nothing," he said.
But the charges against Novak immediately sent ripples through the state's Republican establishment, prompting Governor Mitt Romney to call for him to step aside until his case is resolved.
''The charges against Larry Novak are very troubling, and Governor Romney believes that it's appropriate while these charges are pending for Mr. Novak to step aside as vice chairman of the state party," said Romney's communications director, Eric Fehrnstrom.
Ron Kaufman -- the state GOP's national committeeman, who beat back a spirited challenge for his position from Novak eight years ago -- agreed with Romney that Novak should leave his post for the good of the party.
''Politics is about serving, and when you hurt the system, it's time to leave the system," Kaufman said. ''Larry should clearly resign and step aside until this thing works its way out."
Novak, while popular among many longtime rank-and-file Republicans, is hardly close to the current Republican Party leadership. Romney backed another candidate, Jeanne Kangas, to be the party's vice chair in January 2004, although the 80-member state committee supported Novak.
Novak lost a bid last year to unseat incumbent state Senator Robert Creedon Jr., a Brockton Democrat who won with 67 percent of the vote.
In the late 1990s, while Novak was serving as party treasurer, the Republicans were accused by several small businesses of failing to pay their bills. A number of GOP politicians said checks written by Novak on behalf of the party had bounced.
Tim O'Brien, executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party, said, ''We were all shocked to learn of the charges that were brought against Mr. Novak, and it's something that we will be following very closely." |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: Republican Swartz arrested for molesting 6 & 11 yr. olds |
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| Quote: | More charges for Swartz?
Police: Ex-commissioner had sex with second girl
By Joel Moroney
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Swartz timeline
1996 -- A Republican, Dave Swartz is first elected a Richland County commissioner.
2000 -- Swartz is re-elected commissioner.
2003 -- Swartz registers for the March 2 election primaries to run for a third term as commissioner.
Jan. 19 -- Swartz resigns his position as county commissioner the same day he is in Shelby Municipal Court facing a charge of sexual battery involving a child.
Feb. 2 -- Swartz pleads guilty in court to felony sex charges involving a teenage girl. He faces up to 10 years in prison at an upcoming sentencing.
Feb. 18 -- Washington Township Trustee Tim Wert is picked to take over Swartz's commissioner seat, which ends January 2005.
MANSFIELD -- Former Richland County Commissioner David Swartz is under investigation after being accused of sexual involvement with a second child for five years, according to the sheriff's department.
Swartz, 66, of 6847 Bowman Street Road, Shelby, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery Feb. 2 and awaits sentencing that could land him in prison for up to 10 years.
Swartz resigned his position as commissioner Jan. 19, the same day he was forced to make an initial court appearance to face those charges. He was accused of sexually abusing a now-17-year-old girl for more than a decade.
Authorities have information that Swartz sexually abused a second girl, now 19, from 1990 to 1995, according to Richland County Sheriff's Sgt. Jeff McBride, a detective for children's services.
McBride said the allegations that Swartz abused the second girl did not stem from the initial investigation, but he would not reveal how he received the second complaint.
He said the second investigation began in mid-February.
"Another investigation is going on against him involving another minor child," McBride said. He said Swartz had long-term access to both girls, but his alleged abuse of the second girl is believed to have stopped in 1995.
The dates make the girl 6 to 11 years of age during the reported abuse. McBride said the investigation is basically complete, and he anticipates meeting with Knox County Prosecutor John Baker to discuss charges. Baker has been appointed special prosecutor in the Swartz case because of the former commissioner's relationship with local authorities.
The charges Swartz admitted to in the initial case are for sexually abusing the first girl from 2000 to 2004. Swartz admitted in court to engaging in sex with the girl.
He told investigators the abuse started when the child was about 6 years old, according to paperwork filed in the first case. McBride said that conversation occurred when he confronted Swartz in his commissioner's office.
Visiting Knox County Common Pleas Judge Otho Eyster has not set a sentencing date for the first case, according to his office.
Swartz, a potato farmer, has not been charged in the second case, and Baker did not return a call seeking comment.
"I'm going to have to take a look at it," Swartz's attorney Bob Whitney said Wednesday. "I haven't seen any paperwork on it or anything."
Swartz is free on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:14 am Post subject: Columber, a Republican, sexually harassed 5 women. |
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| Quote: | 5 women allege harassment by Marion County commissioner
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Dana Wilson
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Five women say they were sexually harassed by a Marion County commissioner.
Prosecutor Jim Slagle confirmed yesterday that his office conducted an internal investigation into the complaints against Commissioner Dave Columber after the county auditor contacted Slagle last month on behalf of two of his employees.
The allegations range from physical contact, such as hugs and touching, to repeated sexual comments, Slagle said. Four of the women work for the county. The fifth is a county resident who works regularly with the commissioners.
One woman said in a written statement that she initially didn’t report the incidents because she feared losing her job. "It would be his word against mine," she said.
"We have spent a fair amount of time looking into this," Slagle said. "We have taken it seriously."
Columber, 60, of Marion, began his fouryear term in January 2003 and is up for re- election in November. He did not return phone calls to his office yesterday.
No civil or criminal complaints have been filed against Columber, but Slagle met with the commissioners Aug. 8 in private to discuss possible solutions.
The commissioners have not taken any public action since that meeting. Because Columber is an elected official, their options are limited, Slagle said.
Commissioners do not have the authority to discipline or fire one another. Only voters have the power to remove an elected official from office.
Still, the county has a duty to prevent such harassment in the future, Slagle said.
"We have encouraged Commissioner Columber to make some changes and we have not reached a complete resolution," Slagle said.
His suggestions include limiting Columber’s unsupervised contact with female employees and restricting his access to nonpublic areas of county offices. The board, Slagle said, could also choose to publicly criticize his conduct.
Larry Long, executive director of the County Commissioners’ Association of Ohio, said he recalled two similar cases in his 30-year career.
"All these things eventually may go to the courts," Long said. "I guess the commissioner is treated like any other citizen. They’re innocent until proven guilty of the charge."
Columber, a Republican, is a divorced father of five with two grandchildren, according to his biography on the commissioners’ Web site.
Marion County Auditor Joseph Campbell said yesterday that Columber created a hostile working environment in his office.
He said he’s been informed that the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will visit the county.
In a letter to Slagle dated July 26, Campbell said he witnessed two incidents in his office that involved Columber making sexual remarks and gestures to female employees.
"I have heard many people say, ‘That’s just Dave’ or ‘That’s the way Dave is’ and don’t think anything about it," Campbell wrote. "I do believe this is the way Dave is, and there is no room in county government for this kind of behavior."
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:25 am Post subject: Ohio Republican Linnen 40 times jumps out nake. |
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Weirrrrrrdooooooooo.
| Quote: | Ohio Republican lawyer sentenced to prison on morality charges
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Stephen P. Linnen, 33, who was a lawyer for the Ohio House Republican state legislators' caucus, was sentenced in September [2004] to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to 53 misdemeanors, including 40 times springing out from hiding places while naked and photographing the faces of women reacting to the surprise (and also for fondling 13 of them). However, the judge refused to label Linnen a "sexual offender" and said he poses "absolutely no risk to public safety." See Bruce Cadwallader, "'Naked Photographer' gets 18 months in jail," Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 28, 2004. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: RepublicanCounty Commissioner Jean McClintock steals drugs |
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| Quote: | Another Republican accused of running afoul of the law
July 18, 2006
We've been waiting on this one for awhile, and prosecutors finally filed charges this week against Republican Morrow County Commissioner Jean McClintock for forging a prescription for painkillers.
McClintock stands accused of altering the prescription so she could receive more Vicodin. She makes the bizarre claim the prescription was intercepted and altered in the mail by an unknown person.
McClintock joins a laundry list of current and former Republican Party officials who have run afoul of the law in the past six or so years:
Delaware County Coroner David Rath - resigned after being found guilty to stealing a bottle of Morphine from the scene of a death. Rath later disclosed he was addicted to the pain medication.
Fayette County Auditor Penny Johnson - guilty of misuuse of public funds, for her habit of taking cash from county coffers and replacing it with IOUs. Running for re-election.
Fairfield County Judge Don McAuliffe - resigned after being found guilty of burning down his house to collect insurance money.
Fairfield County Sherrif Gary DeMastry - DeMastry was forced to resign after pleading guilty to 32 counts including theft in office, tampering with evidence and obstructing justice.
Franklin County Clerk of Courts Mike Pirik - found guilty of theft in office after he paid a special employee for time she didn't work.
Franklin County Clerk of Courts Jessi Oddi - resigned and found guilty of stealing over $190,000 in traffic fines.
Henry County Commissioner Steve Baden - resigned after a no contest plea to charges he stalked a 14-year old girl through a Toledo neighborhood and tried to lure her into his car.
Ohio Governor Bob Taft - pleaded no contest to charges of failing to report gifts and golf outings.
Ohio Republican House Caucus Attorney Stephen Linnen - sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of jumping out of bushes naked and photographing his victims' reactions.
Lucas County Republican Party Chair Tom Noe - pled guilty to violating federal campaign finance law, sentence pending
Donna Owens, Sally Perz, Betty Schultz, Maggie Thurber - Toledo-area Republicans who all pled no contest to failing to report gifts of more than $75 dollars.
Richland County Commissioner David Swartz - resigned and pled guilty to charges he molested two girls under the age of 11. |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:08 am Post subject: Republican for the Delaware David Rath arrested. |
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David Rath ran as a Republican for the Delaware County coroner's office.
| Quote: | Police find drugs, guns, FBI gear in homes of ex-coroner
A search of the ex-coroner's homes turned up FBI-related gear, three guns and a cache of prescription drugs.
David Rath
By KELLEY YOUMAN
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What began as a routine death investigation resulted in a police search of the homes of former Delaware County Coroner Dr. David A. Rath.
Rath abruptly resigned two weeks ago and now could face additional criminal charges as a result of the searches of his two homes, which turned up more questions than answers, police said.
Rath, 50, was indicted in Delaware County Common Pleas Court Friday on four counts of falsification, a first degree misdemeanor. The charges came after he allegedly lied to police about taking a bottle of morphine from the scene of a Delaware death investigation July 25, blaming the missing pills on his assistant, Dr. Anton Freihofner, court records show.
Freihofner, who told police he knew nothing about the pills, was appointed acting coroner after Rath resigned.
Rath was not jailed and is not considered a flight risk, officials said.
"We believe it was an isolated incident and have no reason to believe that any death investigations were compromised," said Russ Martin, Delaware City Police chief.
However, police are looking into why the ex-coroner had numerous prescription drugs, guns, identification belonging to a dead person and FBI gear at his homes.
"We have a continued suspicion...of drug dependency," said Bruce Pijanowski, the lead detective on the case. Many of the drugs found by police in Rath's Westerville home were not prescribed to him, unsealed search warrants show. Additional medications not prescribed to Rath were found in his home at 6000 state Route 656 in Sunbury, warrants show.
Pijanowski did not rule out the possibility of additional charges against Rath. One warrant indicated Rath is being investigated for drug trafficking and drug abuse.
According to the search warrants, police took three handguns and medications including Vicodin, Xanax, Voltaren, hydrocodone and bags of pills yet to be identified from Rath's two homes and a vehicle.
Police also confiscated a receipt dated Aug. 2 from Darby Drug Company Inc., a Tennessee company that shipped 56 bottles of Vicodin containing 100 pills each to Rath's Westerville home, court records show.
Rath is employed by the Bureau of Disability Determination, but Pijanowski said he doesn't believe Rath's duties at either job required him to prescribe or dispense medications.
Police also found police and FBI paraphernalia, including a non-dangerous hand grenade, a copy of an e-mail in which Rath claimed to be FBI agent and an Ohio driver's license belonging to a dead Sunbury man, according to warrants.
Pijanowski said he believes that man died of an auto accident, and there was no reason to believe that Rath would have investigated his death or have any reason to have the license.
Martin said the investigation is ongoing, and Rath has been cooperating with investigators.
The indictment came just nine days after Rath resigned as coroner, citing pay as the reason for his resignation. Delaware County Commissioners accepted his resignation Aug. 4.
At the time they accepted the resignation, Commissioner Kris Jordan said they believed it was for the reasons Rath stated.
"We did not know really...any of the details," Jordan said. "We were a little surprised when we got his resignation."
Michael Wintering, the Columbus attorney representing Rath, said he didn't know if Rath's resignation and the investigation were connected.
"I don't believe that that's been established," Wintering said.
Wintering said he didn't know if Rath knew he was being investigated at the time of his resignation.
"We're confident that the charges will resolved in Dr. Rath's favor," he said.
Despite police finding packed boxes at Rath's Westerville home, they said he is not a flight risk. Rath told police he was in the process of moving to his other home on Route 656.
"His roots are deep here," Martin said.
Rath is scheduled to be arraigned on the falsification charges in Delaware Common Pleas Court at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 14. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: GOP Mike McGavick arrest : .17 % blood Alcohol. |
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| Quote: | GOP Senate challenger's arrest detailed
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press Writer
Fri Sep 1, 2006
WASHINGTON - Republican Senate candidate Mike McGavick ran a red light before being stopped for drunken driving, failed a roadside sobriety test and fell asleep during processing, according to a police report on the 1993 incident.
McGavick, seeking the Senate seat in Washington state, confessed to the previously unknown incident last week in an interview with The Associated Press. He later covered the same topics in an "open letter" on his campaign Web site in which he said he "cut a yellow light too close" before being stopped.
The police report, obtained by AP, says that McGavick registered a 0.17 percent blood alcohol level — twice the current limit of 0.08 percent. McGavick told the arresting officer he had "two, maybe three beers" that night.
The report from the Montgomery County, Md., police, says the responding officer detected a "strong odor" of alcohol after stopping McGavick and a female passenger about 2 a.m. on Nov. 21, 1993.
"He appears to have been very cooperative," Montgomery County Police spokesman Derek Baliles told The Herald of Everett, Wash.
McGavick, who is challenging Sen. Maria Cantwell (news, bio, voting record), wrote on his Web site that he was driving his now-wife, Gaelynn, home "from several celebrations honoring our new relationship and should not have gotten behind the wheel."
He was stopped after running a red light in Chevy Chase, Md., just outside Washington, the report said.
"Thankfully, there was no accident, but it still haunts me that I put other people at risk by driving while impaired," McGavick wrote in his Aug. 24 posting. "All in all, it was and remains a humbling and powerful event in my life."
McGavick's spokesman, Elliott Bundy, denied that McGavick had misled voters by saying he had "cut a yellow light" rather than a red one.
"It was based on his memory of the event 13 years ago," Bundy said, adding that the logical implication of McGavick's statement is that the signal was red by the time he crossed it.
The report described McGavick, then 35, as having a flushed face, slurred speech and a swaying body. His demeanor was described as polite, cooperative and sleepy.
McGavick failed sobriety tests in which the officer moved his finger side to side and up and down. McGavick did better when he was asked to walk heel-to-toe on a line and stand on one leg.
After the tests, the officer drove McGavick to a nearby police station, where he fell asleep while waiting to have his blood alcohol level measured, the report said. His car, a 1991 Mazda Miata, was towed from the scene.
The citation did not appear on McGavick's driving record. In Maryland, a legal process known as probation before judgment allows first-time DUI offenders who aren't involved in an accident to keep their record clean by complying with all court-ordered activities.
McGavick has said he paid an undetermined fine and completed alcohol awareness classes as part of his probation. His record was later cleared.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:31 am Post subject: Randall Terry's Family Values |
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| Quote: | Randall Terry's Family Values: Putting Image Over Reality
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Christian Nationalists use the phrase 'family values' at every turn. They claim to be defending and promoting family values, but quite often their efforts are more a matter of image and ideals rather than reality - that is to say, their efforts ignore the reality of families and values in America in favor of an ideal image that makes for good sound bites. Sometimes, this is more literal than figurative.
The Bradenton Herald reports on a recent campaign mailing sent out by Randall Terry which depicted a smiling, happy "family" which conveniently left out those members of Terry's family which are inconvenient for this political agenda:
Terry's adopted son Jamiel says the picture is missing two people: he and his sister Tila, also adopted. Both have been estranged from Terry since Jamiel came out as a gay man and Tila had a child out of wedlock.
Jamiel Terry said the self-image that his father is crafting and the campaign message about strong families ignores part of his own family history. He said voters have a right to know about that.
"He is very big on image," Jamiel Terry said. "In a large way Tila and I mess up that image." Randall Terry is trying to defeat Jim King for the Republican nomination in an upcoming primary. What would Republican voters in northeast Florida say if they knew the truth? I'd like to think that they would be more upset over the fact that he seems to be hiding members of his family who are inconvenient than they would be over the fact that a son is gay and a daughter is an unwed mother.
Randall Terry said he's upfront about his whole family and has never tried to hide anything about his children, even those with whom he has deep disagreements. He said voters don't care anyway.
"I don't think it would affect one vote, one way or another. Everybody has problems in their family," said Terry, who founded Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion protest group. That might be true. If those members of his family are estranged from him, then it's unlikely that they would appear in a campaign photo " but that doesn't explain why he allows voters to develop the impression that this is all of his family. He should be up front and honest about the rest of his family and the troubles he has. For example, maybe he could be honest about the fact that he divorced his wife of 19 years and, just 7 months later, married his 22-year-old assistant. Guess which of the two appears in his campaign pictures?
Jamiel Terry said his father's policy ideas don't always fit his own behavior.
"He has tried to say abortion should not exist because families and churches should step in," Jamiel Terry said. "When his own daughter is pregnant, he refuses to help her." ...
"Both Tila and I have tried to revive or rekindle our relationship with my father and we've been shut out," Jamiel Terry said. "So maybe if we had been invited for Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc., we would be in a family photo." Randall Terry insists that his children haven't really been trying to reconnect and instead say mean things to him. Maybe they have done so occasionally, but given his statements about gays that's hardly surprising. Moreover, it seems plausible that simply being honest about his homosexuality might make Jamiel appear to be "mean" " after all, he's rejecting and denying most or all of what Randall Terry preaches.
Still, it is interesting that Randall Terry's campaign mailings are creating an image which isn't consistent with reality even as he promotes a political and religious agenda which relies heavily on image while having little to no relation with reality. I don't think that this is a coincidence. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: GOP Glavin to disbar Clinton arrested for public masturbatio |
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GOP Glavin to disbar Clinton is arrested for public masturbation
| Quote: | Glavin Sentenced for Incedency
Republican activist Matthew Glavin, who preached family values, was caught masturbating in public and fondling an undercover park ranger
The former president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation has now been sentenced for his public indecency conviction.
A federal judge handed Matt Glavin one year of probation and fined him $1,000 Thursday.
A federal officer arrested Glavin during an undercover operation in a Gwinnett County park. The officer said he caught Glavin masturbating.
Glavin entered a guilty plea to the charges two months ago. As part of his probation, he is banned from federal parks.
Glavin led the foundation in its efforts to abolish Atlanta's affirmative action programs. The foundation also filed suit to have President Clinton disbarred for lying under oath. |
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