A Sheriff in Arizona named Paul Babeu resigned as a co-chair of Mitt Romney's campaign in Arizona on Saturday after he was accused of threatening a former male lover with deportation to Mexico if he talked about their relationship. From Reuters
It's like Mitt Romney's trying to make the nomination process harder for him. Of course, my question is: What self respecting gay man would work for any Republican candidate?
The sheriff, who is a tough law-and-order advocate, was considered a rising star in state Republican politics and a strong candidate to win the Republican nomination for a congressional seat in Arizona this year.
Babeu has been rocked by the allegations from The Phoenix New Times late Thursday evening, where a Mexican immigrant named Jose told the newspaper that the sheriff and his lawyer threatened to deport him if he revealed their several years relationship.
Jose said that him and Babeu met in October 2006 on gay.com, a dating website, and that he maintained Babeu’s campaign website, Facebook page and Twitter account. From Rawstory.com
As if that's not bad enough, the national finance co-chair of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, billionaire and CEO of a dietary supplement company from Idaho, Frank Vandersloot has been well known to people in Idaho for being the king of frivolous lawsuits and using the courts to bully and silence his critics. From Salon.com
In the last month alone, VanderSloot, using threats of expensive defamation actions, has successfully forced Forbes, Mother Jones and at least one local gay blogger in Idaho to remove articles that critically focused on his political and business practices. He also has a history of virulent anti-gay activism and publicly outed Peter Zuckerman, a journalist who wrote an article about pedophiles in the Boy Scouts because the Mormon Church supports the Boy Scouts in Idaho. The article that he wrote, the six part expose won the Scripps Howard Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment.
From the article: "VanderSloot bought numerous full-page newspaper ads in The Post Register that attacked the story and explicitly identified the reporter, Zuckerman, as “a homosexual” (Zuckerman had previously written for a small Florida paper about being gay when he lived in that state, but had kept his sexual orientation largely a secret since he moved to rural Idaho). Vandersloot’s full-page ad expressly described the “speculation” that Zuckerman’s homosexuality had made him hostile to the Scouts and LDS: “the Boy Scout’s position of not letting gay men be Scout Leaders, and the LDS Church’s position that marriage should be between a man and a woman may have caused Zuckerman to attack the scouts and the LDS Church through his journalism.”
So you have the co-chair of Romney's Arizona campaign who was in the closet until last Thursday, and the national finance co-chair who is a gay hater (which probably means that he's still in the closet). A fine organization Romney's running, don't you think? Especially if the end goal is total and complete implosion.
There's a good gay joke in Romney's campaign being a well oiled machine somewhere. I just have to flush it out.
And of course this is going to do nothing to stop Santorum's surge from behind. Ha!
Thank you folks, I'll be here all week.
Interesting. And always more that way when one consistently hears from the side of the hell and damnation preaching, better-than-thou wonder boys who in truth have both feet in the middle of what they are damning.
This might prove to be a most entertaining election year.
Romney or Santorum. Now there's a choice for you. Or should I say for republicans.