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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 11:53 AM
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Bob Allen Appeals Conviction In Sex Case
Edited on Thu May-22-08 11:54 AM by JackBeck
VIERA, Fla. -- Former Florida Rep. Bob Allen vowed on Wednesday that he was going to fight to clear his name.

"I'm looking forward to real justice," Allen said after arriving at the Moore Justice Center in Viera to ask an appellate panel to throw out his conviction on solicitation charges on grounds he didn't get a fair trial.

Allen, 49, arrived at the court, walking arm-in-arm with his wife, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. He was convicted last year of soliciting oral sex from an undercover police officer in a Titusville park.

Allen was sentenced Nov. 15 to six months of probation, a $250 fine and other court and restitution costs. The seven-year Republican lawmaker resigned a day later.

When asked by journalists why he didn't pay his fine and put it behind him, Allen said: "I didn't do it. I'm not guilty."

More at: http://www.local6.com/news/16352460/detail.html

Keep the appeals process churning through the election, pretty please? These reminders of right-wing, family values hypocrisy will do more damage to the Republican brand than gay marriage will ever do to the Democrats.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 12:22 PM
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1. Some many Republic's and some many
sex scandals to keep up with!

I am so overwhelmed!!1!!

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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 12:30 PM
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2. Should we start a list?
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyvito0520,0,3532167.story">After sex scandal, Fossella won't seek re-election
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 12:52 PM
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3. And then there is this absolute disgusting case....
Warning, this is disgusting material..

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1200571

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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:11 PM
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4. Blech!
:puke:

Here's one from your neck o' the woods:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502002.html">GOP's McKee Resigns After Home Is Searched

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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:13 PM
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5. See what I mean??
We could dedicate hundreds/thousands of posts for each of these idiots.

:puke:
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:21 PM
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7. There's already a list...
http://www.republicansexoffenders.com


Republican sex offender & candidate for Mineral County (W.Va.) Commission Wilton Frederick Bland, 30, of Bayberry Place, was arrested March 23, 2007, after police received a complaint concerning a juvenile boy who said Bland had wanted him to appear nude on the Internet. Bland charged last year with 136 counts related to sexually based crimes against children has been sentenced to a possible total of 85 years after pleading guilty in both Grant and Mineral counties. was charged at the time with 73 counts of possession of child pornography, 45 counts of sexual assault in the first degree for allegedly having sex with a child under age 11, nine counts of use of obscene matter with intent to seduce a minor, seven counts of display of obscene matter to a minor and two counts of employing a minor to do sexually explicit conduct, according to the West Virginia State Police.

Republican Delegate Robert McKee, known as an advocate for children's rights, is the focus of a child pornography investigation after officers searched his Hagerstown, Md home. McKee is not facing any charges right now, but as of today, Feb 15, 2008, he has resigned his position as both a state delegate and as executive director of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Club of Washington County. In a statement, McKee said he is entering treatment to, "get well and stay well." Shock waves echoed through Hagerstown, as the news that he was being investigated for child pornography spread like wildfire.
**We will be keeping an eye on this story for further developments**

Republican sex offender & Department of Children & Families press secretary Al Zimmerman, 40, was arrested Friday, Feb 1, 2008 and charged with eight felony charges of using a child in a sexual performance. According to an arrest report, Zimmerman offered two teens money in exchange for photographing them in sexual acts. The victims were ages 16 and 17 at the time of the crime, and at least one may have been in the care of DCF at one point, according to the report. Authorities believe some of the images date back to December 2005, the arrest report showed. Zimmerman is suspected of taking photos as recently as Friday, the report showed.

The Republican Mayor, who is also the Pastor of the Temple Lot Church in Collins Missouri, a town in St. Clair County, is accused of trying to convince someone whom he thought was a teenage girl to meet him for sex. Diamond police say Allen D Kauffman is charged in Newton County with four counts of enticement of a child after an online investigation that began in mid-November.
Diamond Police Detective Jim Murray says he posed as a 13-year-old girl named Cindy and was approached by a man who used the screen name duke dukeadk on Nov. 15 about noon in an online chat room.
Murray says Kauffman discussed meeting her to take nude photos and to have sex. Over the course of seven conversations during the past two months, transcripts show each chat was sexually graphic. Murray say Kauffman recognized the girl’s age, and even showed some hesitation, teasing the girl about whether she could be a cop.
Police say Kauffman repeatedly asked the girl to use a webcam, and didn't wait long to use his. The detective saved some photos from a webcam on Kauffman's computer in his home in Collins.

Republican Party Chairman Donald Fleischman, 37, of Allouez, Wisconsin was charged last month with two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing himself to a child for allegedly fondling a 16-year-old Ethan House runaway and providing the boy with beer and marijuana late last year.

Republican U.S. Justice Department official John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida, has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to have sex with a 5 year old child. An undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison for sex, according to police. In deposition, detectives said Atchison suggested the mother tell her daughter that "you found her a sweet boyfriend who will bring her presents." The undercover detective expressed concern about physical injury to the 5-year-old girl as a result of the sexual activity. Detectives said Atchison responded, " I am always gentle and loving; not to worry, no damage ever, no rough stuff ever. I only like it soft and nice." The undercover detective asked how Atchison can be certain of no injury. He responded, "Just gotta go slow and very easy. I've done it plenty," according to detectives.
**UPDATE: John Atchison has killed himself. Detroit police confirmed Atchison's suicide death at 10:14 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. Good riddance, scumbag!

Republican city councilman John Bryan killed himself after police began investigating allegations that he had molested three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12 and 15.

Republican Homeland Security deputy press secretary Brian J. Doyle , 55, was arrested Tuesday night, April 4, 2006 and charged with trying to "seduce'' a 14-year-old Polk County girl with graphic talk over the Internet. On March 12, Doyle contacted a 14-year-old girl whose profile was posted on an AOL Web site, according to the Sheriff's Office release. Initially, detectives thought Doyle was posing as someone working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But they soon learned otherwise when he sent a picture to the girl over the Internet wearing an official ``DHS tag'', Judd said.

http://www.republicansexoffenders.com

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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:52 PM
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8. Thanks for the link.
They must have to update that list every other day.
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 02:19 PM
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10. It's hard to keep up with... but I do it with a passion.. it's *my* site...
I scour the news every day in search of new 'members'... pedophiles make me sick..

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:17 PM
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6. Ah yes, the one who said blacks were responsible for his offering oral sex
(Tampa, Florida) State Rep. Bob Allen (R), a longtime foe of LGBT rights in Florida, has a bizarre excuse for being charged with offering a male cop $20 for oral sex in a washroom at a park.

He was busted last month in a sting at Veteran's Memorial Park in Titusville, Florida. (story)

In taped statements made by Allen to police following his arrest and released by the force Allen admits to soliciting the male officer but claims that it was the result of being nervous by the high number of black men in the park.

"I certainly wasn't there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn't there to exchange money for it," Allen told officers.

Of the arresting officer Allen said in the tape, "This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park."

He claimed he feared he "was about to be a statistic" would have said anything just to get away.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/08/080607allen.htm
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 02:10 PM
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9. That would be the one.
Edited on Thu May-22-08 02:11 PM by JackBeck
I tend to fall to me knees in front of stocky black men, but that's a different story...
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