Perfect example why to out a Gay politician

[William769]

Voters Toss Out 'Gay Chat Mayor'

(Spokane, Washington) Spokane Mayor James West is out of a job today. Voters overwhelmingly decided the mayor had violated his office by offering city jobs to young men he met in gay chat rooms in return for dates.

He will leave office Dec. 16, the day the results are certified. Tuesday night officials said voters approved the recall by a 30 percent margin.

West, who had a long history of voting against LGBT rights legislation, was outed in a series of articles in the Spokesman-Review newspaper.

The paper set up a sting operation, using an employee to chat up the mayor in Gay.com. It then published the conversation. Following the initial story, two gay men came forward, telling the paper that they had met West in chat rooms and that he had offered them jobs if they would go out with him. (story)

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon05/12/120705spokane.htm

Kudos to the citizens of Spokane.

[AndyP]

1. that brings to score of dirty politicians to:

Republicans: 85734
Democrats: 1

[papau]

5. "dirty politician" anti-gay gay Mayor West is a GOPer.

:-)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Hypocrites should be unmasked

Especially those who enact legislation detrimental to people. This goes for closet gays as well as hypocritical Christians, etc, etc.

[Neocondriac]

3. Seemingly....

the more vicious the politician/pastor is toward gay rights issues the more likely they're a screaming nelly queen deep down.

[BR_Parkway]

4. Generally works that way for everyday, regular guys too - the one's most

vocal are the one's slipping around on the side of their wife for a little boy on boy action. Self Haters, all of them