Archive: Prostitution & GOP

Via Pam’s House Blend, Coy Privette, the 74-year-old rightwing Christian nationalist politician, former Baptist preacher and member of the Baptist State Convention, who was fired as the president of the Christian Action League after he was arrested June 19 for aiding and abetting prostitution, has pleaded guilty to those charges.
When we first reported this story, [...]

Privette on two occasions allegedly paid the prostitute with checks then reported the checks stolen.
Coy Privette, Tiffany Denise Summers
Rev. Coy Privette, the president of the Christian Action League, a North Carolina ultraconservative Christian political organization based in Raleigh, has been arrested for soliciting prostitution:
Privette, 74, was charged with six counts of misdemeanor aiding and abetting [...]

Vitter is also rumored to have a diaper fetish, and sources say he fathered a child with one of the prostitutes
On Monday, near the end of Sen. David Vitter’s apology for consorting with call girls, he practically dared the media to prove allegations that he had ongoing relations with hookers in New Orleans in the [...]

His number appeared five times in DC Madam’s call lists but now he says reports that he frequented a New Orleans brothel in the 1990s are “not true”
“Unfortunately, my admission has encouraged some longtime political enemies and those hoping to profit from the situation to spread falsehoods too, like those New Orleans stories in recent [...]

Jack Burkman:
Burkman, a former staffer for Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY) and a Bush-Cheney ‘04 staffer, recently worked as a lobbyist for groups such as the Family Research Council, Caring To Love Ministries, and America’s Heros of Freedom.
This guy is the poster boy for rightwing unctuousness. Here’s a typical over-the-top statement in which he pontificates [...]

And it’s not a first for Vitter
Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani’s reaction today to news that one of his supporters, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) admitted he procured at least one prostitute from the so-called D.C. Madam six years ago, has raised the bar in Republican hypocrisy about adultery:
“I’m a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary. [...]

At it again? D.C. madam Deborah Jean Palfrey has given 46 pounds of her clients’ phone records to Brian Ross at ABC News. Ross, who was instrumental in outing former Rep. Mark Foley’s perving on congressional pages, plans to reveal the names of the owners of the phone numbers — many of whom, potentially, are [...]

Cpl. Matt Sanchez (left) with unidentifed man at CPAC, inset: Rod Majors
Ted Haggard bought one. Jeff Gannon was one — and now so is Cpl. Matt Sanchez, a U.S. Marine and the darling of CPAC and rightwing luminaries like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly.
What is it with rightwingers and gay prostitutes?
Cpl. Sanchez became a [...]

The True Life megachurch in Colorado Springs that was founded by Ted Haggard, the drug-addled self-hating homo evangelist, has laid off 44 people — approximately 12 percent of its employees — saying the Haggard scandal has negatively affected the church’s fundraising.
“As a pastor he never had to pay for his cars or his house (and [...]

Earlier this month, Rev. Tim Ralph, one of the ministers charged with degayifying self-hating homo evangelist Ted Haggard announced that Haggard had been completely cured, and anyway, he only had sex with the gay prostitute and no one else:
We have verified the reality of that struggle through numerous individuals who reported to us firsthand [...]