Calvert Caught in the Act With Prostitute, Lied, Attempted to Run From Police

[babylonsister]

Previous thread(s):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3260560

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/12/calvert-prostitute/

Calvert Caught in the Act With Prostitute, Lied, Attempted to Run From Police

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), recently appointed by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) to the House Appropriations Committee, has a history of ethics violations that is stirring up battle cries even from his own conservative base. His ethics violations also extend into attempts to dodge the law and lie to the public about his behavior.

In 1993, Calvert was caught by police with a prostitute in a parked car in California. Subsequently, Calvert repeatedly attempted to cover up the incident for nearly a year, publicly denying that it ever occurred.

But a year later, a court order forced the release of the police report, which revealed how Calvert was clearly caught in the act and attempted to run from the police. From the police report:

I observed a male subject in the driver seat…As I made my way to the driver door, a female immediately sat up straight in the front passenger seat. It appeared as if her head was originally laying in the driver’s lap. … I noticed that the male subject was placing his penis into his unzipped dress slacks, and was trying to hide it with his untucked dress shirt.

As the male subject covered up crotch area with his left hand and shirt, he started his vehicle and placed it into drive and proceeded to leave. I ordered him three times to turn off the vehicle, and he finally stopped and complied…The male identified himself as Kenneth Stanton Calvert.

That wasn’t all Calvert tried to cover up. “We’re just talking, that’s all. Nothing else,” he nervously explained to the police as he “continued to cover his unzipped pants with his hand.”

Calvert has since held onto his Congressional seat but only through smear tactics. Representing a conservative district, he put out “campaign literature implying that his Democratic opponent was gay” after the prostitution incident and was subsequently re-elected.

Read the full police report HERE:

[hobbit709]

1. Those wonderful "Family Values" strike again!

[tanyev]

2. "We're just talking"

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

9. Difficult to believe, isn't it. nt

[Hepburn]

10. Well, if he was "just talking...."

...then he was using his dick to do this!

:rofl:

[formercia]

11. A little closer to the microphone, my dear.......

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

14. heh

:spank:

:rofl:

[badgerpup]

13. Well....

According to the thesaurus, 'talking' IS one form of intercourse...
shades of Olivia Newton-John...I Wanna Get Physical (lemme hear your body talk)
Or Body-Braille, maybe...


...remembers old joke: "What's a four letter word ending in "k" meaning intercourse?"
Answer: "TALK."

Somebody stop me, please. :hide:

[BOSSHOG]

3. Oh I see

If a democrat gets caught having consensual sex with someone, conservatives spend a hundred million dollars investigating but when a conservative gets head that he HAS to pay for, you call your opponent a gay and get reelected by ignorant trash. Makes sense to me. Maybe someone from conservative underground can jump in here and provide us with the rationalization. Share with us more of those god loving conservative values.

[sellitman]

4. The "Do as I say not as I do" Party

Do you Lie, cheat, extort, whore around? If so do I have a political party for you!

The Republican family values party!

[BOSSHOG]

5. And are you a war monger but too much of a coward to raise

your right hand and serve your country, you are a perfect candidate for the young republicans.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. BJs must hold some wicked fascination for powerful men, because they

seem to topple many a career.

[Alexander]

7. Why is it the Republican sex scandals always involve something illegal?

Like prostitution, pederasty or indecent exposure. It's always something bizarre with this crew.

Ironically, if Clinton had used the "we were just talking" excuse with Monica, the Republicans would've been on him like flies on shit...

[bluerum]

8. Things like this need to be printed out as flyers and distributed at every

republic campaign function from now until the party crumbles to dust.

[Judi Lynn]

12. He's a man of many talents. He can also mysteriously increase the size of his investments!

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Ken Calvert is an eighth-term member of Congress, representing the 44th district of California. His ethics issues stem from his use of earmarks for personal gain and his connections to a lobbying firm under investigation.

Earmarking for Personal Financial Benefit

In 2005, Rep. Calvert and his real estate partner, Woodrow Harpole Jr., paid $550,000 for a four acre piece of land at Martin Street and Seaton Avenue in Perris, just 4 miles south of the March Air Reserve Base in California. Less than a year after buying the land, without making any improvements to the run down parcel, they sold the property for $985,000, a 79% increase. During this period, Rep. Calvert pushed through an earmark to secure $8 million for an overhaul and expansion of a freeway interchange 16 miles from the property, as well as an additional $1.5 million for commercial development in the area around the airfield.

In another deal, a group of investors bought property a few blocks from the site of a proposed interchange, for $975,000. Within six months, after the earmark for the interchange was appropriated, the parcel of land sold for $1.45 million. Rep. Calvert’s firm received a commission on the sale.

By using his position to earmark funds to increase the value of his own property, Rep. Calvert violated the prohibition against using his position as a member of Congress to advance his own financial interests. as well as the House rule requiring all members of the House to conduct themselves “at all times in a manner that reflects creditably on the House.”

http://www.beyonddelay.org/summaries/calvert.php

[annabanana]

15. Even the reddest of the red are getting ticked at this fool...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=279513&mesg_id=281000

(redstate.com is apparently not happy that he was set to replace Doolittle - -whine: "We won't be taken seriously")

God this is funny.

[tanyev]

18. That should be the least of their worries.

I haven't taken them seriously since they all started worshipping at the feet of a doddering old fool who suffered from Alzheimer's.

[struggle4progress]

16. Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)

~snip~ In 2005, Rep. Calvert and his real estate partner, Woodrow Harpole Jr., paid $550,000 for a four acre piece of land at Martin Street and Seaton Avenue in Perris, just 4 miles south of the March Air Reserve Base in California. Less than a year after buying the land, without making any improvements to the run down parcel, they sold the property for $985,000, a 79% increase. During this period, Rep. Calvert pushed through an earmark to secure $8 million for an overhaul and expansion of a freeway interchange 16 miles from the property, as well as an additional $1.5 million for commercial development in the area around the airfield. ~snip~

The lobbying firm of Copeland, Lowery, Jacquez, Denton and White is (“Copeland Lowery”) currently under investigation by a federal grand jury for its ties to Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA). On May 23, 2006, as part of its investigation into Rep. Lewis’ ties to Mr. Lowery, the FBI obtained Rep. Calvert’s financial records at the same time that they pulled Rep. Lewis’s financial records. Rep. Calvert has helped pass through at least 13 earmarks sought by Copeland Lowery in 2005, adding up to over $91 million. ~snip~

http://www.beyonddelay.org/summaries/calvert.php

[BoneDaddy]

17. At what point

do the people who believe in these idiots wake up?

[SpiralHawk]

19. republicons and prostitutes - can't they get sex the ordinary way, with their wives?

Why won't republicon wives have sex with their husbands???

Don't republicons realize they are VIOLATING the very laws they have laid on the rest of the public?

Why do republicons 'think' they are above the law?

Why do republicons VIOLATE the law so often?