Spokane Mayor Complains of 'Brutal Outing

[IChing]

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press Writer


SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Mayor James West, the subject of an FBI probe into accusations he offered municipal jobs to men he met in gay online chat rooms, is complaining he is the victim of a "brutal outing."

In an e-mail sent to nearly 140 people affiliated with a race relations task force, West wrote that the group is responsible for making Spokane a community where "harassment, intimidation, discrimination" are unacceptable.

"Does that include people who have an internal struggle with who they are sexually and are searching for a way to come out ... ?" wrote West, who is co-chairman of the task force. "Do others who desire to be out but are having similar struggles now live in greater fear because of a brutal outing?"

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SPOKANE_MAYOR?SITE=MNMAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. "Fuck you," from this out queer,

you gay-bashing, hypocritical closet-case. Out this!

[joeybee12]

4. And a double Fuck you, too! It's not about coming out,

it's about pedophilia and intimidation you fuckwad West!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

7. A-men!

I like your style :hi:

[joeybee12]

32. Same here!

:hi:

[yellowcanine]

14. Not to mention hypocrisy. Attacks gays all his political life and now

says he is one and wants understanding?

[joeybee12]

33. Exactly--and it's an attempt to blame the messenger

once again. Coward.

[IndianaGreen]

56. I heard this puke was publicly a homophobe

but I do know that dispensing government jobs to sexual partners is definitely wrong no matter the sexual orientation of the parties.

[IChing]

43. right on

My late brother was gay and proud

[Roland99]

2. What about the brutal actions committed by him and Hahn on underage boys?

[ET Awful]

3. LMFAO

These people are so fucking deranged I have to laugh.

"Brutal" outing? Sheeeesh.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

11. I know

SUCH the victim! :puke:

[IChing]

5. Mules, Horses, small children, male hookers,

forced sex.......assholes
and hypocrites.

[Tempest]

6. Another example of Repug hypocrisy

So much for the party of "personal responsibility".

[atreides1]

8. This hypocrite isn't worthy of sympathy

He's had years to to come out on his own, but he knew that if he did
his support would disappear. Then he tops it off with what appears to
be an anti-gay agenda.

The man is nothing more then self hating and a collaborator.

Someone should tell him he can find sympathy in the dictionary, it's located between shit and syphillis!!!!!

[jamesinca]

54. Would he need so much sympathy if...

if he had not tried to create an environment so hateful with his proposals? Imagine if he had an agenda of tolerance and mutual respect for people because they were human, nothing more nothing less. He is being measured by the yardstick that he measured everybody else with.

[daleo]

9. Suddenly, he is a victim.

And now he has an 'internal struggle'. Typical conservative situational ethics, recognizing the need for understanding and compassion only when a situation applies to oneself.

[Fridays Child]

29. Po widdow wepubwican swime.

:puke:

[Guckert]

10. Being outed as a predatory pedophile is a little tough on anyone. asshat!!

[skypilot]

12. race relations task force????

Is he trying to reach out to racial minorities because sexual minorities want nothing to do with him? For that matter I'm sure alot of his straight Republican associates are backing away slowly by now. Sounds desperate.

[Democat]

13. Watch him try to make gays look bad as he goes down

He will try to give the right wing more ammunition to hate gays.

Maybe he'll be "reborn" as a straight guy and claim gay is just a "sickness".

This guy is evil.

[benburch]

15. No pity! You have no right to a clean well-lit closet!

Fucking traitor to his own kind!

:nopity:

[Botany]

16. as a straight man ......

...... I just don't get these self loathing closet cases.

[central scrutinizer]

17. following Tom DeLay's script:

Be completely corrupt for years and then when you get busted, play the victim card. Their pictures should be in the dictionary next to "hypocrite".

[UpInArms]

18. gosh - it was so nice and cosy where you were

before:

Standing in your closet bashing gays.

:nopity:

[Liberal Veteran]

19. He that soweth the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

Enjoy your outing you fucking hypocrite. You persecuted gays for years while hiding in your closet. Now your chickens have come home to roost. I feel no pity for you.

[Triana]

20. He's just pissed 'cause his HYPOCRISY is showing...

Heh. Get a loada THIS! (I love Mark Morford)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/05/11/notes051105.DTL&type=printable

[IndianaGreen]

57. "mutual online masturbation"?

Wow, that's some Morford article, Triana! His link to the Spokesman-Review article that outed this scum was a beaut:

On two occasions, RightBi-Guy appeared to believe he was engaging in mutual online masturbation with Moto-Brock, according to transcripts of the explicit exchanges.

Asked about simulating masturbation online with a teenager, West said Wednesday, “You have a better memory than I do.” He declined an offer to look at the transcripts of the dialogue.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/jimwest/story.asp?ID=050505_online_relationships

The Party of GAWD is full of Jummy Swaggart types, that's for sure!

[Eloriel]

58. GREAT line, Triana

I might have to borrow it repeatedly:

"He's just pissed 'cause his HYPOCRISY is showing..."

[devilgrrl]

21. See what happens when people in glass houses throw stones?

Hey Mayor! Deal with it!!!!!

[sasquatch]

22. Why doesn't this guy get severly beatin' and tied to a fence out in BFE

I don't think hypocrits are protected in hate crimes laws. Because it's these guys that think killing Matthew Sheppherd was ok cause he was gay. Then people think it's ok to do this to gay people because they're subhuman so I think this guy shall recieve what he gives.

[lies and propaganda]

23. special place in whatever "hell" you believe in

for people like this. Not only molesting children and hooking up gay.com dudes, THEN you pass every piece of hate legislation because you cannot stand the just awful ways THAT YOU ARE.

And im fucking sick to death of finding more and more instances with our repug gov raping young boys, Franklin Credit Union, Bohemian Grove, etc etc.
Why cant we ever make a deal about the fucked up shit straight people do?

[Straight Shooter]

24. SHUT UP, WEST!! "Brutal" is what that Illinois man did to 2 little girls.

What happened to you is not "brutal." A little rough, maybe, from your perspective.

Speaking of perspective, how does it feel now that the gay-bashing shoe is on the other foot?

I'm so disgusted with these people and their exaggerations whenever the mask comes off and everyone can see exactly what they are. You reap what you sow, West, and you've been sowing hypocrisy for a long, long time.

[triguy46]

25. from perpetrator to victim

as the church lady would say "How conveeeeeeenient."

[DS1]

26. Wah, Shut the Fuck Up Mr. Party of Personal Responsibility

I'd rather see him thrown in Fred Phelps' lion pit.

[BR_Parkway]

27. You should try the brutality of living out while certain politicians

use you for fucking campaign fodder to stir up their base and fill their coffers. Fuck you, I hope you learn to enjoy it. Oh yeah, BTW, you're former (R) friends hate you, think you should be stoned to death, see you as an abomination, will spit on you and think you are some pervert who chose to live this way because you're sick, you'd just as soon have sex with animals. So fuck you again, you were part of this Culture of Hatred & Bigotry.

And they also think that you're a child molester, which in this case looks like it may really be true, so once again, you've spit all over the rest of us and made our lives harder. So fuck you for the last time!

[MissB]

28. Ah, the hypocricy

This guy works against gays, and then claims to be outed. Yeah.

[K8-EEE]

30. GOP "Personal Responsibility" = WAAAAAH!!!

God I get sick of their pathetic whining when they're caught being HYPOCRITES...

[Zorra]

31. Grampa said: "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones."

And West is a perfect example of the truth of this adage.

His anti-gay agenda is the perfect example of the hypocrisy of the average republican, and now his own "legislative brutalization" of the rights and feelings of GLBT folks has come to haunt him.

[wicket]

34. Eat shit, West!

You reap what you sow! :grr:

[Barrett808]

35. Seattle Weekly: The Wild, Wild West (it's the pedophilia, not hypocrisy)

The Wild, Wild West
Outed and accused of sexual abuse, the mayor of Spokane might have dodged one of his own barbaric bullets.
by Knute Berger

It's almost too good to be true: One of the most powerful, antigay Republican politicians in Washington turns out to be gay. The Spokesman-Review reports that Spokane Mayor Jim West spent time cruising the Internet for young men, apparently from City Hall.

He denies having told a City Council member that he masturbated during these online exchanges. "I didn't masturbate in my office," he insists with Clintonian specificity. He did, however, admit to masturbating with an 18-year-old date in a parking lot.

Further, the outed pol complains, "I am being destroyed because I am a gay man, which is fine. I've been in public life. I can accept that. Because I am a gay man, because of this double life, it has been hell."

So a new poster child for gay rights is born.

It is tempting to become distracted by the monumental hypocrisy of it all, coming from one of the state's chief gay persecutors. Jim West is a right-winger who has actually enjoyed legislative gay bashing. Not only that, in 1990 he tried to outlaw all sexual contact between teenagers, including oral sex and heavy petting. Maybe his legislative actions were a kind of cry for help written in lipstick on the mirror of law: "Stop me before I have sex with teens again!" We'll let his shrink sort that out.

But as King County Executive Ron Sims said of West, on Al Franken's national Air America radio broadcast from Town Hall on Monday, May 9: "Don't let him hide behind being gay."

The headline in the Seattle Post- Intelligencer last week screamed, "Gay Sex Scandal Rocks Spokane," but the "gayness" of the scandal was the least of it. The issue isn't whether West is bisexual or gay or confused, or whether he does it in the office, in the parking lot, or even with prospective interns. Nor is it about a politician succumbing to the twin aphrodisiacs of power and secrecy. Let's stay focused: There are alleged victims who say he's a serial pedophile.

(more)

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0519/050511_news_mossback.php

[BR_Parkway]

37. "Stop me before I have sex with teens again!" - and there you have

the true motivation of all these loud-mouths braying against gays.

Someone make them stop before I'm tempted to give in to my urges!!!!

They can't, or at least, don't trust their own self control and they need external limits in place to re-inforce their own denials.

The next time one of these fuckers starts off about how all us gay want to corrupt their children, I'm calling Dept of Child welfare and turning them in.

[rocktivity]

36. Awww, poor widdle Westie needs a shoulder to cry on?

You're gonna need at least 200 bucks, though...



:headbang:
rocknation

[Bluebear]

38. I feel so bad for him. Crying here....

:rofl:

Poor widdle cwoset case.

Maybe others who 'desire to be out' don't take legal stances against their.

[geniph]

39. Wait, wait, wait...isn't he one of the "gay is a choice" types?

So he's CHOOSING this "evil lifestyle"? and whining about being vilified for it?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Welcome to our world, you sick fuck. Don't sow the wind if you don't want to reap the whirlwind.

Self-hating gays should not try to pass legislation discriminating against other gays. They should seek psychological help for their own self-loathing. And pedophiles - I can't think of anything vile enough to do to pedophiles, having been a victim of them myself.

[hatrack]

40. Live by the sword, die by the sword, ASSHOLE!!!

Run on ultra-con gay-bashing rhetoric and then start screaming like a banshee when your little secret gets out?

TOUGH SHIT!

[pfitz59]

41. mr west represenst the NEW GOP!

look at rove. look at cheney. look at bush. closeted, all of them! perhaps mr west will name names

[warrens]

42. Hahahahahahaha

God, these little whiners crack me up. They're always VICTIMS. Their own behavior has nothing to do with it. That preacher who kicked the dems out of his church quit because everybody was being mean to him and his family, not because HE fucked up. This story was a brutal outing, not a story about a sexual predator.

Brutal outing. He's lucky he hasn't gotten a brutal beating from the families of those kids he raped.

[David__77]

44. I would accept this IF...

...he hadn't attacked the lesbian and gay community politically. His having done so means he will gain little support, unless he repudiates his past politics and makes a sincere self-criticism.

[reality based]

45. Grand Old Pedophile

The brazen sense of entitlement of Republican crooks, perverts, and theofascists never ceases to amaze me. It's time to clean out the pigsty.

[freesqueeze]

46. What's With The Gay Homophobic Republicans???

What is the attraction for them to that party?

Is it that the GOP is the homophobic party?

Is it that the GOP is home to hypocrites of all stripes?

Is it that they are wealthy enough to benifit from the hood-robin bush-onomics?

Any theories??

[IChing]

48. Ask Bolton's wife, ask the catholic pedophile priests

Just one theory, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[mike_c]

47. no sympathy for this pig whatsoever....

He worked to increase discrimination against gays for years, and has based his political career on narrow-mindedness and intolerance. The crows have come home to roost.

[Sparkman]

49. Hypocracy of the powerful , CAPITALIZING on PERSECUTION, Fascist!

EVERYONE knows the sting of the powerful hypocrites controlling our lives! Now the Republicans are past-due for a house cleaning. Self-righteous aparatchecks (bureacratic yes-men) making life hell for us, and just to further their own careers. No one's perfect, but only a supreme degenerate abuses their power, obtained on false pretense, to persecute those who are ALREADY VICTIMIZED by our uber culture.

[progressivebydesign]

50. Homosexuality and pedophilia are different. You aren't automatically both.

It sickens me that yet another pious Republican scuzzball is screaming "private life" after being caught commiting illegal acts.

[stevedeshazer]

51. Come on, let's not pile on the poor guy when he's down, folks!

Awwww, nevermind. :evilgrin:

[Politicub]

52. Oh boo fucking hoo

This out queer thinks West is a sleazebage

[TheDonkey]

53. He's a scumbag

makes me sad.

[Vogon_Glory]

55. No Pity

I've no pity for James West. He co-created his situation, and now he gets to live with the consequences.

It's not just the hypocrisy; had West maintained a heterosexual marriage for form's sake, but had remained non-committal or arranged to find himself out trout-fishing or busy serving hot dinners for Meals on Wheels or something when Radical Right gay-bashers came to his office to press their agenda, I might have felt a little sorry for him. But by being an active (if closeted) homosexual AND an active-gay basher at the same time, I don't sympathize.

Moreover, there's the matter of molestation. I do not approve of grown men having sex with underage minors of either gender. As far as I'm concerned, he's fair game for prosecution and huntin' season is on!

[dsc]

59. What a crock of crap

At best this man is a hypocritical pig dating 'men' a third his age. At worst he is a pedeophile. I have no sympathy for this man.

[Erika]

60. Eastern Washington is almost 100% red and he

pretended to be one of them. These rural folks just know good old simple values, and the GOP tells them they are the party of good old simple values. The GOP is anything but the party of good old simple values as Spokanites are now finding out.

[IChing]

61. bump