There is a bizarre story swarming blogtopia, laced with unconfirmed (and confirmed) sources that could lead to another Republican Sexual Hypocrite “outing” and scandal. First, some facts about the weird murder suicide in Orlando in late August that kicked off the whole matter:
A Republican political consultant killed in an apparent double murder-suicide in Florida had worked extensively in Alabama politics including a controversial “Adam and Steve” campaign leaflet that parodied gay marriage.The Orlando Sheriff’s deputies have not released a timeline or official motive — the bodies that were discovered had been dead for several days. Some articles at the time mentioned a gay love triangle, which caught the eye of several blogs. As Andy at Towleroad noted, Florida Today originally ran the story with the “Lovers’ fight may have sparked three deaths.” He did a screen cap of it:Ralph Gonzalez, 39, president of The Strategum Group, was found dead Thursday along with his roommate, David Abrami, 36, and a friend, Robert Drake, 30, according to The Associated Press. A motive has not been determined. Weapons and signs of a struggle were found in the house.
… The Alabama Republican Legislative Committee in 2005 paid Strategum $3,144.06 to print a flier that accused a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives of supporting gay marriage.
The flier depicted two smiling men on a porch holding hands with the caption: “Let Gloria Dolbare know God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!”
The newspaper later scrubbed all references to the “lovers’ quarrel” from the report without comment.
The fact that it gets even more GOP-scandalous - it also ties into a male escort service/prostitution ring - shows it is begging for additional investigation by the MSM, but no one seems to want to touch it. Drama Queen notes:
In both Monday and Tuesday’s posts, my point was that it’s highly suspicious that the traditional media has basically ignored the Florida murder suicide: a sensational story that juicily combines fundamentalist Christian politicians and homosexual consultants, election software tampering and this potential tie to a gay porn-related murder in Pennsylvania.This story is potentially wilder than anything Larry Craig’s toe-tapping in an airport restroom. I have no idea what it all means since there are many still off-the-record sources. I’ll let Scrutiny Hooligans, Down With Tyranny and Pat Go Bye Bye tell the potentially sordid tale. BlueNC has been on the case for some time now as well. However, you might want to start here for an overview.
More after the jump, including an on-the-record tie to a GOP congressman.
The events on the record are noteworthy enough for the MSM to investigate at this point, because the office of right-wing Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has gone on the record tying the pol to the shooting. Howie Klein, making a serious charge:
As we mentioned yesterday, Drake, a former marine, also is alleged to have a strong relationship– both intimate and business/political– with right-wing Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC). When I spoke to McHenry’s office about this they at first insisted they never heard of Drake then, confronted with specifics, admitted they know him. They refused to put Congressman McHenry on the phone. There is every indication that McHenry may have been one of the Republican elected officials who was using the services of the gay prostitution agency connected to Drake. Our pals over at the BradBlog points out the connections between Florida’s ultra-corrupt, vote-tampering congressman, Tom Feeney, and Gonzalez and reports the threat to expose the list of Republican elected officials who were using the gay escort service.Where will it go? Who knows, but with a story of this potential magnitude, the mainstream news media, which has the resources to investigate and uncover whether the thick smoke does or doesn’t lead to fire, isn’t biting.
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Meanwhile, drop by The Pensito Review for a post on the next GOP closet doors that could be kicked open.
While we’re on GOP topic, look at the yeoman work of this Blender, Tommy Korioth. He said he expected to spend a couple of hours working on a list of the Republican Culture of Corruption, but it took him 3 days. We’ve got to get this stuff into a searchable Conservative Values Monitor database again.
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Maybe White House journalist by day Jeff Gannon can ask his colleagues about it. Did they know if the gang in the Republican Palace ever used a paid escort’s information to threaten public officials?
Is it all that surprising that self-hating gays in the GOP-closet killed themselves/each other? Their lifestyle is clearly unnatural and disordered.
(Snark warning: By “lifestyle” I mean being wingnut and closeted, not being gay.)
I’m sure there is a very simple explanation here that all GOOD republicans can agree with: Hillary had Vince Foster execute the hit, and they were all watching football at the time.
Is McHenry’s hair bleached??
Well, the conservative attitude is pretty much “the only good faggot is a dead faggot.”
Sirkowski:
It looks frosted to me. That and the five-’o-clock shadow is a great look if you’re going down to South Beach for the evening. But the Capitol building? Not so much.
Pam, I read this yesterday over at Americablog. Thanks for pushing this. It is so strange, weird, complicated that it really deserves alot of attention. All the way to that slimeball Ralph Reed. But, you know, the poor Justice Department doesn’t even have enough people to continue the invetigation on Lewis in Cali. Maybe Larry Craig was thrown under the bus.
Hm, wasn’t there a recent report (maybe last week) of a R Representative found dead in his (?) Washington DC home. If I recall correctly, suicide was suspected.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20649320/
Here’s the story from Friday, ema- it was Paul Gillmore from Ohio and he broke his neck falling down a flight of stairs.
“…it was Paul Gillmore from Ohio and he broke his neck falling down a flight of stairs.”
…at least that’s what they WANT you to believe…
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D’oh!!
Thank you Louise. [falling down a flight of stairs, indeed]
Don’t chase anyone with your pants around your ankles.
Your GOP safety tip for the vening.
Carry on.
(Please get a new anti-spam device in the name of all that is unholy and indecent.)
Broke his neck falling down stairs? I have no doubts that’s true, but I’d like to note that one can break one’s neck falling down stairs because there’s a noose or equivalent around it.
(NB: No, I’m not saying “so this really *is* a suicide”. I’m saying it *could* be, and it could still factually be reported as it was. There’s an old gag about how, if you’re murdered by a spy organization, the cause of death will be “heart failure”, because you can describe any death as heart failure.)
Still on the “Adam and Steve” nonsense? There are 7 colors in a rainbow, and 64 colors in a box of crayons. Is Crayola ripping us off? The idea that there are two genders and no more is as much a human construct as Roy G. Biv; and you have to think that God must be stupid (in Divine terms) to have a mind as little as these bozos.Small point for the believers:
Excuse me!?
God didn’t make Steve? And that’s the crux of it. Religious gay-bashers don’t see gays as having been made in God’s image. Really? Hypocrites and haters.
Every time I hear that tired “Adam and Steve” refrain, I want to jam a bible straight up someone’s ass. Get a new joke, freaky religious people.