GOP candidate admits flashing children...

[MnFats]

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www.thecabin.net

By TAMMY KEITH
Log Cabin Staff Writer



District 45 Republican candidate Alan Fortney of Conway admitted Thursday that he has been arrested three times for exposing himself to children.

Fortney, 42, said the first incident was in 1981 when he was in college at Westark Community College (now the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith). He was 18 or 19 years old at the time, he said.

The second time was in Fort Smith in 1988; and the third arrest was in Georgia when he was "working computers" for McGregor Golf Co. in Albany. He was married during the third incident, but has since divorced and remarried.

His current wife, Jan, is aware of his past, he said.

"We all make mistakes in life, and those are my mistakes," Fortney said during a telephone interview.

Fortney said the incidents were misdemeanors. He was fined but never served time in jail.

A project manager for Acxiom Corp. in Conway, Fortney plans to remain in the race.

Fortney said he did not plan the incidents and did not know the children involved. He also said there was no physical contact.

[SoCalDem]

1. "Youthful indiscretions" move along..

Republicans get a free pass on this stuff..

[fujiyama]

2. Is that rock structure that looks like a cat real?

If so, where is it?

[SoCalDem]

5. I'm pretty sure it's a photoshop

I don't even remember where I found it :) cool, isn't it :)

[fujiyama]

8. Yeah I was guessing it was photoshopped as well

It is cool though.

[ahem]

3. There a those Republican family values that we keep hearing about...

I love his excuse:
"We all make mistakes in life, and those are my mistakes,"

He makes it sound like a common indiscretion! If that man gets one vote... ugh, never mind.

[Bark Bark Bark]

4. "Mistakes?"

A "mistake" is making a spelling error or dropping a stitch. Whipping out yer dink in front of children isn't a "mistake." You can be arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but you don't get charged with "making a boo-boo."

And these arrests are just the three incidents we're AWARE of. Who knows how many children this sick f*** has exposed himself to (or worse)?

The fact that he's still willing to parade himself about in public as a civil leader deserving of votes...well, just tell the current definition of "chutzpah" to move over, it has competiton.

[Journeyman]

6. I can see it if you've been arrested for underage drinking. . .

or pot possession, or maybe even a crazy joyride in someone else's car. . . something crazy like that, you could still expect to maybe win an election. A lot of people have stupid acts in their past, or know other, reasonably good people who've done idiotic stuff. But exposing yourself to children? What moves a person to make the decision to run for public office with something like that in their past?

[Tsiyu]

7. Oh, Yes, Terrorizing Children-It's The Repuke Way

Don't you people get it? Jeebus puts Republicans ABOVE the law. They can murder 100,000 people for oil. They can imprison, torture and rape the poor and their resources. They can rob our nation blind. THEY CAN ASSAULT LITTLE CHILDREN BY FORCING THEM TO LOOK AT THEIR DISEASE-RIDDEN, SHRIVELED, PUNY GENITALIA! As long as you're Republican ANYTHING goes!

Imagine what kinds of judges and laws he will support if elected? Kids in his community won't ever be safe if HE wins....

So goddamned sad. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE SICKOS? Can anyone please clue me in?

[wickerwoman]

9. He's been arrested three times so you have to wonder how often he did it!

[Fridays Child]

10. It's not a mistake. It's a disorder, for which no treatment is known to...

...be curative 100% of the time. The man has no business in public service, if he can't admit that.