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[DandyDon]

Anti-LGBT politician resigns after being 'caught having sex with man in his office'


An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office.

Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.

The right-wing legislator, who pushed “family values”, was reportedly witnessed having sex with a man inside his office who was not employed by the legislator.

According to the Columbus Dispatch, the observer told Ohio House Chief of Staff Mike Dittoe what had happened on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Dittoe responded by telling House Speaker Republican Cliff Rosenberger who in turn met with Mr Goodman.

The 33-year-old, who has been branded the “conscience of the conservative movement”, resigned for “inappropriate conduct” shortly after the meeting took place.

Mr Goodman, whose Twitter biography describes him as “Christian. American. Conservative. Republican. Husband to @Beth1027”, has regularly claimed "natural marriage" occurs between a man and a woman.

"Healthy, vibrant, thriving, values-driven families are the source of Ohio's proud history and the key to Ohio's future greatness,” reads his campaign website which has now been taken offline.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 60631.html

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Anti-gay GOP ex-congressman Aaron Schock photographed making out with another man at Coachella







The GOP ex-congressman whose sexuality was DC’s worst-kept secret has been spotted making out with another man at Coachella. Former Representative Aaron Schock who made a splash in the nation’s capital with his clothing choices, Instagram photos, and interior decorating choices, resigned after being accused of illegally using campaign funds to finance his over-the-top lifestyle.

Schock was a reliably anti-gay vote for Republicans, despite the parade of young men who visited his DC apartment, and his outing by journalist Itay Hod in 2014. Hod claimed he had walked in on his male roommate and Schock showering together.

But the former Congressman is back on social media after moving to West Hollywood where’s he’s been spotted doing some of the most stereotypical gay things possible – hanging out in gay bars, posing shirtless with gay fitness junkies, and enjoying quiet dinners with other men.


This dude is a straight up flamer..lol Not that there is anything wrong with that.

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GOP party of hypocrisy

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GOP party of hypocrisy

And guess who's the Hypocrite in Charge?

P.S. Countdown to standard "but..but...but Hillary-Obama etc. etc. ad nauseam" hypocritical "excuses" parroted right out of the stupid talking points

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GOP party of hypocrisy

And guess who's the Hypocrite in Charge?

P.S. Countdown to standard "but..but...but Hillary-Obama etc. etc. ad nauseam" hypocritical "excuses" parroted right out of the stupid talking points

So in a thread about hypocrisy you're saying we shouldnt point out instances of hypocrisy?

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Shaming a corrupt lying criminal

In February 2015, The Washington Post reported that Schock's congressional offices had been lavishly redecorated in a style inspired by the aristocratic homes in the television show Downton Abbey.[134][135][136] In response to that story, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint alleging Schock could have received an improper gift. CREW's executive director, Anne Weismann, stated, "Again and again, Rep. Schock's seeming obsession with his image impedes his ability to conduct himself in [an] ethical manner."[137] Schock dismissed the criticism with the statement "Haters gonna hate", which was in turn criticized for its apparent flippancy.[111][138] Schock later stated he intended to pay the decorator.[139] Another investigation had discovered he had spent campaign money on workout DVDs.[137]

Further media scrutiny of congressional expenditure reports showed that Schock had spent over $100,000 in government funds on office decorating and renovations between January 2009 and late 2014, mostly during his first term.[140] Other media[clarification needed] reported Schock had charged thousands of dollars for private flights, legal expenses, new cars, tickets to the Super Bowl and Country Music Awards,[141] as well as cufflinks, massage, "gold equipment" and cigars[142] to his government-funded office account. The Associated Press accessed the location metadata on Schock's Instagram photos and correlated it with private flight records to identify flights that did not correspond to his campaign finance disclosures.[143] In response, Schock's office stated it had begun an internal review of the reimbursements.[141]

In March 2015 there were further reports of spending and disclosure irregularities,[144][145] including that Schock had accepted money from an outside group, the Global Poverty Project, to cover the cost of bringing a photographer on an all-expenses-paid trip to India organized to discuss sanitation and access to clean water.[146][147] The Associated Press also reported that much of Schock's personal wealth had been built with the assistance of political donors.[148][149] Conservative commentators began calling for Schock's replacement.[150][151] National Review called him "a crook" and stated: "Politics shouldn't be a ticket to a celebrity lifestyle on the public's dime. For a man who has enjoyed such a short and undistinguished career, Illinois's Representative Aaron Schock (R) has sure packed in a lot of corruption."[152]

On March 16, Politico reported that Schock had requested the federal government and his campaign reimburse him for a total of 170,000 miles that were driven on his personal car, a Chevrolet Tahoe, between January 2010 and July 2014. But when he transferred that car back to the dealer in July 2014, he signed documents saying it had only been driven 80,000 miles.[153] A subsequent investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times of reimbursements on Schock's previous vehicle, a GMC Envoy, revealed a similar discrepancy. He bought the Envoy in 2007 while still in the state house. The Envoy had 24,300 miles on its odometer when he bought it. When he sold it in 2009, he'd put an additional 53,100 miles on it in a little over two years. However, during 2009 he billed the federal government and his campaign for a total of 42,300 miles.[154]

On March 17, 2015, Schock announced his resignation from Congress, effective March 31, 2015.[155] The resignation came less than 12 hours after the Politico report about the questionable reimbursements went online. On the day he announced his resignation, his spokesman said that Schock had refunded all reimbursements he had received for mileage on his car.[153] By resigning, he avoided an impending congressional ethics inquiry. On March 20, the Chicago Tribune reported that federal investigators had opened a "preliminary investigation" into the activities of Schock.[156] In October 2016, Schock agreed to pay a $10,000 civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission for having asked Rep. Eric Cantor to contribute $25,000 to pay for advertisements for Rep. Adam Kinzinger.[157]

Prosecution
On November 10, 2016, the United States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois announced that a federal grand jury had indicted Schock on 24 criminal counts including theft of government funds, fraud, making false statements and filing false tax returns.[158] The charges arose in connection with the spending scandal.[3]

Schock pleaded not guilty to all charges when arraigned on December 12, 2016.[159] A trial date was set for July 11, 2017.[160] In March 2017, Schock's attorneys, led by George J. Terwilliger III of McGuire Woods, filed public documents criticizing activities of an FBI confidential informant, a former Schock staffer enlisted after Schock's indictment.[161][162] On May 19, 2017, Judge Colin S. Bruce set a new trial date for January 22, 2018, but the trial was delayed again in November 2017.[163][164] On October 23, 2017, Judge Bruce dismissed two of the 24 counts against Schock, but denied Schock's motion to dismiss the entire indictment.[165] On May 30, 2018, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's denial of Schock's motion to dismiss the entire indictment and dismissed his appeal.[166][167]

On June 26, 2018, Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Bass was removed from the Schock case, and that was followed, in mid-August 2018, by Judge Bruce being bumped from all of his criminal cases for commenting in emails about a trial he was overseeing, thus causing the U.S. Department of Justice to transfer the case to United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois Matthew Kennelly who, on August 30, 2018, was informed by U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois John Childress that the Justice Department was replacing the prosecutors overseeing the Schock case, that were not named, other than Childress noting that the new prosecution team would be from outside of the Central District of Illinois.[168][169][170]

In March 2019 prosecutors reached an agreement with Schock where all charges against him were dropped in exchange for him paying $42,000 to the IRS and $68,000 to his congressional campaign fund.[4][171] As part of the deal, Schock’s campaign committee, Schock for Congress, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of failing to properly report expenses.[4]

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Another instance about how the left really supports gays by shaming gays who are Republicans. Classy

No, they're shaming hypocrites that are attacking gays who are themselves gay, making the hypocrisy even more inexcusable.

Nothing wrong with him being gay. Being hypocritical and a crook, yeah there's something wrong with that. Or is that acceptable to Republicans who clearly go out of their way to fully support gay folks? :sarcasm in case you don't recognize it:

P.S. Congratulations on using a tired talking point accusing Democrats of being anti-gay when supporting a group that has many members who actually are.

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Biker must giggle and shake his head when he posts the shit he comes up with.

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“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

― Jean Paul-Sartre

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“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

― Jean Paul-Sartre

Well that pretty much sums up most of the trolls. Then they roll out the same shit again, rinse, repeat.

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“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

― Jean Paul-Sartre

Well that pretty much sums up most of the trolls. Then they roll out the same shit again, rinse, repeat.

You know the liberals have a long history of being intolerant to homosexuals

[PimpDaddy]

Lots of gay bashing in this thread. You Dems should be ashamed of yourselves.

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Lots of gay bashing in this thread. You Dems should be ashamed of yourselves.

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