Two tips of the hat today to John Aravosis at americablog.
First tip, on the whole “Mayor of Spokane-trolling for underage boys while opposing gay-friendly policies hypocrisy” that is riveting Washington State, and now the whole country:
“Well, Mayor West has made the big time. The New York Times has a story tomorrow on the Mayor’s gay.com antics…even giving us his screen name: RightBi-Guy.
The piece, “A Mayor’s Secret Life Jolts a Northwest City” gives the highlights[…]
“No comments from the Radical right-wingers yet. But, maybe that’s because Mayor West doesn’t really like the homos: In one of the online chats that the newspaper recorded, Mayor West talked about his ambiguous feelings.
“Remember, I’m very closeted. No one knows I like guys,” he wrote. “It’s just that the openly gay guys are a little over the top for me. I don’t really like the in-your-face attitude some guys have. And the massive political agenda either.”
Isn’t that standard operating procedure for the right wingers who are on the down-low? Bash the gays by day, sleep with them by night. And, if you really don’t like the homos, don’t want to hang out with them, don’t go to the gay grocery store….aren’t you really not like them?And another thing, Mayor, we need the “massive political agenda” to protect ourselves from you and the other hate-filled politicians who like to kick around the homos.
Unfortunately, I think Mayor West is just one of many hard-core, gay-bashing GOPers on the down low. It’s just most of their stories don’t end up in the NY Times.”
How many gay-bashing hypocrital Republican politicians have to be outed before the electorate notices that they are, in fact, self-hating hypocrites? (Oh, do pass on your client list Mr. Gannon, you’ll make so much more money out of that than you did shilling for ‘Talon News’. I’m sure that nice Scotty and his friend Karl would be happy to be relieved of the unbearable pressure of being closeted.)
Americablog is also keeping us updated in the latest “Corrupt-Republicans-in Ohio- stealing-state employees’-money-surprise, surprise-Blackwell-is-involved” scandal:
In case you missed it earlier, the Ohio Workers Compensation Fund invested $50 million in a rare coin fund…which is considered a very risky investment. The person who controls the fund is Tom Noe who is a major, major player in the Ohio GOP. He’s close to all the big names out there, has contributed hundreds of thousands to the state party and major candidates. And, he was a Bush Pioneer.
The Toledo Blade first broke the rare-coin story in early April. Then, it turned out that 121 of the coins purchased by Ohio were missing. Gets even better.
Apparently, Tom Noe, the major GOP fundraiser/Bush “pioneer” with whom the state of Ohio invested $50 million in a rare-coin fund, failed to tell the authorities that 121 of the coins were missing.
The coins were allegedly stolen in Colorado: “What’s frustrating to me is I’m getting information from so many other people, but no legitimate victim ? has ever called me with further information or further concerns,” said Jennifer Gilmore, an investigator for the Jefferson County, Colo., sheriff’s office.
“I get information from [The Blade] that there’s 119 additional coins missing, but no one has ever called us to make a report of it or to add this to it. We would be more than happy to look into that for them.”
An official at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation – the agency that gave Mr. Noe $50 million to buy rare coins as investments for the state – said Friday the bureau also is concerned. A bureau spokesman said Mr. Noe took almost a year before informing them – in an audit report – of the loss of 119 of the coins.
And, the spokesman said, the state didn’t learn until being informed by Blade reporters in March that two additional gold coins also were missing, two of the most valuable rare coins purchased for the state by an employee of Mr. Noe’s at a cost of $250,000.
Maybe if you’re Tom Noe the rules are different. He is, after all, good pals with the hierarchy of the GOP in Ohio. And sounds like he is an arrogant prick to boot..”
So, let me see if I have this stright. The GOP-controlled state government, in the person of “Subvert the Vote” Ken Blackwell, gives the pension funds of state employees, with no questions asked, to a major fundraiser for the very party that is in power. Without asking the employees, and without running it by any form of scrutiny. That in itself is bad enough, and then we find that, not only is there no accounting for where the money is gone, but they spent it on… rare coins. Which are now ‘missing’. Oy, oy, oy. Even Mobutu would be ashamed. So what’s next, SS private accounts, invested in Beanie Babies?