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
- September/October 2005: House Majority leader Tom Delay (R-Tex) was indicted on September 28th on the counts of conspiracy to violate campaign finance law with two of his co-workers. Delay was charged of conspiring to use illegal corporate campaign contributions in the 2002 congressional elections. The indictment prompted Delay to step-down from his position as House Majority leader. On October 19th of 2005, Delay was issued an arrest warrent by a Travis County and was processed at the Fort Bend County Jail. [1]
- August 2007: On August 28th, Larry Craigh (R-Miss.) pleaded guilty to a disorderely conduct charge after his arrest for solicitation of sexual contact in an airport bathroom stall.[2]
- February, 2008: 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. [3] [4]
- February 2008: Leftist New York Governor Eliot Spitzer breaks wife's heart when discovered to have solicited prostitutes while in office. [5]
- March, 2008: Leftist Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick charged in text-messaging sex scandal. [6]
- April, 2008: Thomas Athans, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network and a married Michigan Democrat is charged with soliciting a prostitute. [7]
- 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. [8]