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Another one bites the dust
Wow, these poor closeted homosexuals in the GOP just can't rein it in. Today the media found the story of Richard Curtis, a Washington state lawmaker and his encounter with a male hustler. Here we have a case where the Republican weirdo, who has voted against gay rights on multiple occasions, is discovered to have hired a hustler, taken him to a hotel room, dressed up in women's lingerie, then offered to pay him $1k to fuck him without a condom.

Now, I am a pretty open-minded guy, and all kinds of sexual activity which seems to disturb most Americans is just fine with me. But a politician who pays a young street hustler to have unsafe sex, trying to use the guy's need for money for the opportunity to possibly infect him with HIV, that is sick. I hope is all the hubbub about Republican hypocrisy this fact is not overlooked. It is the one part of the story that actually is criminal.

Of course, I have no idea whether Curtis is HIV+ or not. But given what we now know about how reckless and irresponsible his sexual activity is, the odds of him having HIV have got be to pretty good.

The other thing that gets me is how stupid Curtis is. I mean, this guy is a Republican politician, who hires a hustler to have kinky sex in a hotel room, offers the guy $1000 for sex unsafe, and then, when the hustler takes his wallet when Curtis won't pay up, Curtis goes to the police to try to get his wallet back, thinking this will not become a media story.

Forget about the whole issue of closeted homos voting against gay rights, how did this guy ever become a politician? He is an idiot! What Republican party hack recruited him to run for office? Who ran this guy's campaign? Didn't anyone notice he was a moron? How do people in the state of Washington feel about having a dunce writing the laws under which they will live?

CNN's coverage of it is pretty funny:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2007/10/31/costello.gop.sex.scandal.cnn

MSNBC coverage is here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21568392/
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