Oh my — a lot of you sent links to this latest fun for the GOP. Joey DiFatta a candidate for the 1st Senate District has been busted — twice — for cruising for potty-sex. And of course, he's not gay, he just seeks sex with men in public restrooms.
St. Bernard Parish Councilman Joey DiFatta, who on Thursday withdrew from the 1st Senate District campaign, has been stopped twice since 1996 for suspicion of engaging in lewd behavior in public restrooms in Jefferson Parish, records obtained by The Times-Picayune show.In the first incident, in 1996, Joey engaged in Peeping Tom behavior in a mall.DiFatta, 53, acknowledged that reports he had been stopped are true, but he denied any wrongdoing in both cases. He said he was not prosecuted in either case and has no arrest record.
The report states that DiFatta watched a man use the bathroom while peering through a hole in a bathroom stall. The man held DiFatta until police arrived, at which time he was issued the misdemeanor summons and ordered to appear in court.Here's the police report. Again, try to visualize the pathetic cruising of a self-loathing man, who surely hadn't told his wife about encounters that involve pickup lines and moves like this:DiFatta said the man eventually withdrew his complaint, and the case was dismissed. A spokeswoman for the Kenner Police Department said the record was expunged.
From his web site:In the second incident, Jefferson Parish deputies working an undercover detail in a men's bathroom at Dillard's at Lakeside Shopping Center in March 2000 stopped DiFatta after he indicated a desire to engage in sex with an undercover deputy in an adjoining bathroom stall, according to an interoffice memorandum written by Sgt. Keith Conley, one of the deputies involved in the investigation.
The report said DiFatta slid his foot into the deputy's stall and tapped the deputy's foot. In the report, Conley noted that such activity is common among men to indicate a willingness to participate in sex. The deputy inside the stall, Detective Wayne Couvillion, responded by tapping his foot, and DiFatta reached under the partition and began to rub the deputy's leg, the report states. [Apparently he's a bit more aggressive than poor Larry, who just waved his hand under the stall.]
The detective asked DiFatta, “What do you want?” according to the report, and he replied, “I want to play with you.”
DiFatta also used a hand signal to indicate that he wanted to engage in sex and used language that indicated the same, according to the report. Conley, who is now the Kenner city attorney, confirmed the report's authenticity Thursday.
Joey is the father of two sons and he has three grandchildren. He is a taxpayer in St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes and he is a concerned citizen. Currently, Joey Di Fatta is serving as Chairman of the St. BernardDiFatta’s real community leader, whose campaign includes a pledge to “Defend our conservative values from attacks by extreme liberal groups.”
Parish Council. He was elected as Councilman-at-Large 2004-2008.
Oh, did I mention that DiFatta has dropped out of the State Senate race? Not because of the above little incidents, mind you, but because of elevated enzyme levels and a recommendation from his doctor to change his life. Unfortunately that excuse doesn’t top Bob Allen’s stocky black man/lightning storm whopper.
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I think these closeted men cruising public bathrooms are giving gay men a bad name. All those nice fellows who have boyfriends aren’t hitting up the loo at an airport or department store, are they? I’m not a gay man, so this is only speculation: If an uncloseted gay man who doesn’t have a monogamous relatonship should find himself hankering for anonymous sex, does he head straight for a public bathroom, or does it make a helluva lot more sense to just go to a gay bar?
You know, Orange, you’d think that. But that doesn’t get the anonymity of a public bathroom. I still remember the time when the obviously gay teacher left the gay bar as soon as I walked in (I didn’t make it clear that I’d seen him, or care that he was gay… I was there with my wife and a gay friend); guess he didn’t want it getting around the office.
I still kinda think “ew” when I think about sex in a public bathroom, though. There’ve gotta be better places.
You’d think that the Republicans might have learned their lessons by now. Why the hell don’t they just hire prostitutes and have them sent to their hotel rooms? I’m sure that they can afford it. I mean, that could be a sting, too, but it seems less likely at this point. And I doubt that someone who want to work so hard to outlaw abortion, keep women at home and shame all the gays is exactly concerned about the exploitation in the prostitution industry, so that can’t be it. It really does boggle the mind.
And makes me sick that we’re spending tax dollars to put undercover cops in men’s bathrooms to arrest men for actions that are of no true threat to no one. How about some undercover cops in frat houses to step in and stop the date rape? Oh wait, that’s straight “sex.” We only care about what men consensually do with each other, not what men do non-consensually to women. How silly of me to forget! Carry on, officers, carry on.
Okay, we have to get rid of the closet. I am a bi guy, and if someone ever reaches over and touches me while I’m taking a crap, I will cut his hand off. I AM A LITTLE BUSY RIGHT NOW.
I wonder if officer Mancuso busted him at the Greyhoun’ station by de’ Superdome?
(Read Confederacy of Dunces if this doesn’t make sense to you.)
I think that the bathroom sex might be particulary enticing to fundie closet cases because it’s extra “dirty.”
Also: hiring a gay prostitute means credit card receipts (or the hotel room, if nothing else) and that the hustlers have, um, memories.
It’s unlikely some other uptight closet case is going to report your bathroom encounter.
Case in point, Mike Jones the former hustler who outed Ted Haggard now says that Larry Craig was a former customer.
It’s enough to drive Republican closet cases to the nearest bathroom stall, more private, providing the cops aren’t holding a sting operation (and Di Fatto got away with it twice, anyway, even after being flagged by the cops!)
Considering how thin our police force is stretched (what with the funds siphoned off for “homeland security,” I imagine that the cops are only targeting the toilets where they’ve received sufficient civilian complaints that make it a safety issue.
Twenty-seven years ago last Wednesday: