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==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||
| − | * February, | + | * February, 2008: [[Carl Stanley McGee]] (D), a Leftist gay official in Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration, is arrested for sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy in the steam room of a Florida resort. [http://www.examiner.com/a-1207714~Gov_s_Aide_Accused_of_Sex_Assault_on_Boy.html] [http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/02/gay_massachuset.html] |
* February 2008: Leftist New York Governor Eliot Spitzer breaks wife's heart when discovered to have solicited prostitutes while in office. [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/11/2008-03-11_spitzer_may_have_spent_tens_of_thousands-2.html] | * February 2008: Leftist New York Governor Eliot Spitzer breaks wife's heart when discovered to have solicited prostitutes while in office. [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/11/2008-03-11_spitzer_may_have_spent_tens_of_thousands-2.html] | ||
* March, 2008: Leftist Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick charged in text-messaging sex scandal. [http://www.kswo.com/global/story.asp?s=8060071] | * March, 2008: Leftist Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick charged in text-messaging sex scandal. [http://www.kswo.com/global/story.asp?s=8060071] | ||
Revision as of 16:51, April 19, 2008
Instances when conduct of a public official brings great discredit and embarrassment to oneself and one's office.
Examples
- February, 2008: Carl Stanley McGee (D), a Leftist gay official in Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration, is arrested for sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy in the steam room of a Florida resort. [1] [2]
- February 2008: Leftist New York Governor Eliot Spitzer breaks wife's heart when discovered to have solicited prostitutes while in office. [3]
- March, 2008: Leftist Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick charged in text-messaging sex scandal. [4]
- April, 2008: Thomas Athans, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network and a married Michigan Democrat is charged with soliciting a prostitute. [5]
- April, 2008: Oklahoma state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against Democrat Sheriff Mike Burgess of Custer County for running a sex-slave operation out of his jail using female inmates he bribed for the purpose. Charges include 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official. [6]