Report: Leader of Virtue Arizona GOP Candidate Got Topless Photo From Female Staffer

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[Report: Arizona GOP Candidate Got Topless Photo From Staffer]


A Republican congressional candidate who is billing himself as a “leader of virtue” in his bid to take over former Republican congressman Trent Franks’ vacant seat received a topless photo from a female legislative staffer, 12 News reports. Former Arizona state senator Steve Montenegro, a married minister, exchanged a series of messages with the unnamed staffer prior to the scandal that erupted last winter when Franks was accused of sexual misconduct. In one message reviewed by 12 News, Montenegro reportedly urged the woman to use Snapchat to ensure their exchange would be erased after she sent a topless selfie. ................................

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Virtue seems to escape Montenegro




Flirtatious texts, topless photo roil Steve Montenegro's campaign; he blasts 'false tabloid trash'


https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/02/21/steve-montenegro-congress-campaign-roiled-flirty-text/357581002/

Ronald J. Hansen and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 12:05 a.m. MT Feb. 21, 2018 | Updated 12:06 a.m. MT Feb. 21, 2018
Texts discuss travel plans that match his trip, also include photo with warning: 'You have to delete these'



Steve Montenegro

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Days before Steve Montenegro decided to run for Congress, a state Senate staffer was trading flirtatious text messages with a cellphone number associated with Montenegro, according to a record of the messages viewed by The Arizona Republic.

During one exchange in November, while Montenegro was on a work trip in Tennessee, the messages discuss how the staffer could have attended the conference as well. The staffer later sent a topless photo of herself to the number.

The response, according to the messages: “You should have come.”

The texts suggest a close, consensual relationship, albeit between an ambitious elected official and someone in an entry-level legislative job.

Montenegro was still a state senator when the messages were exchanged. He resigned in December to run for the West Valley’s vacant 8th Congressional District seat. Trent Franks resigned from the seat in disgrace over complaints of sexual misconduct with staffers. Montenegro has throughout the campaign touted his work as a Christian minister and his marriage and family. .....................



........In Arizona, the state House voted to expel Rep. Don Shooter after multiple complaints of harassment.

[ananda]

1. Reeps live in opposite land.

Virtue means Vice

Etc.

[riversedge]

3. Good one!

[Bluepinky]

2. Montenegro will fit in with the rest of the GOP Congress.

He knows it’s a cushy job with great benefits. To keep the gig, all he has to do is vote in lockstep with the GOP, a perfect job for an asshole with no integrity.

[marybourg]

4. He's the one putting up the largest signs of the publican field.

The Dems have almost no signs.

[not fooled]

8. Prolly got

lots of kook brothers-type dark money because he would be a tool of the billionaire class.

I hope Error-Zona keeps this creep out of congress. Of course, his policies are the reason he should not get in, but if the sex stuff works, it's all good.

Of course, whoever gets the puke nom will be bad news for the idiots voting for them.

p.s. Bet he goes the "jaysus has forgiven me for my past transgressions" route if he doesn't drop out.

[NastyRiffraff]

5. The minute I hear one of these hypocrites

talk about "values" or how "virtuous" they are, I know they have something to hide. Probably more than one something.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Republican family values - Uncle Newt who cheated on his wives with each next wife.

Republican family values - Uncle Newt who cheated on his wives with each next wife.

Calista must not let him out of her sight because she herself is proof positive that he will cheat.

[Scarsdale]

9. Zombie eyed Calista

is working at the Vatican, as US ambassador! Seriously! Who better to represent American values that a woman who committed adultery for several years, openly, with a married man? Newt must have another whore on the hook, so he got her this gig to get her out of the country. Poor Newticles, he is s fat as tRump these days. He rolls when he walks.

[Nitram]

7. a leader of virtue Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

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[louis-t]

10. Ah jeez. Married AND a minister.

Perfect.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. meet the new boss, same as the old boss

The heart of sexual harassment is the power imbalance. Staffer and boss are not equal in power, ergo, that's misconduct on his part.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

12. I live in this district.

He has his signs all over every intersection proclaiming that he is endorsed by Joe Arpaio and Trent Franks.

Personally, I consider that to be a rather large 'negative', but I'm more than a little philosophically opposed to that whole side of the aisle.

Were I running, I'd be boasting about being vilified or hated by the two...


Come on. Sherriff Joke cost the county 50 Million in legal fees alone, beside the wrongful death awards.

Then there's Trent Franks. When I read parts of The Handmaid's Tale in the eighties, I was a little bit creeped out. No, make that a LOT creeped out. He probably gets excited when reading it.



There's a saying I've run across: "You can't spell crazy without AZ".



I am going to enthusiastically vote for any Democrat running for the seat.

The republican party needs to be repeatedly voted about the head and shoulders with great enthusiasm, using a large, heavily weighted ballot.