Political scandals
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Instances when conduct of a public official brings great discredit and embarrassment to oneself and one's office.
Examples
- February, 2007: Carl Stanley McGee (D), a Leftist gay official in Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration, is arrested for sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy in the steam room of a Florida resort. [1] [2]
- February 2008: Leftist New York Governor Eliot Spitzer breaks wife's heart when discovered to have solicited prostitutes while in office. [3]
- March, 2008: Leftist Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick charged in text-messaging sex scandal. [4]
- April, 2008: Thomas Athans, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network and a married Michigan Democrat is charged with soliciting a prostitute. [5]
- April, 2008: Oklahoma state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against Democrat Sheriff Mike Burgess of Custer County for running a sex-slave operation out of his jail using female inmates he bribed for the purpose. Charges include 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official. [6]