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When Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York, one of the big scandals was his affair with his now-third wife, Judith Nathan, when he was still married to second wife Donna Hanover. The situation was so scandalous that his then-wife went to court to keep Nathan from “visiting” Giuliani in the mayor’s mansion because Hanover and the couple’s two children were still there. Previously, in an even more trifling move, Giuliani’s wife found out about their impending divorce when he announced it on TV.

However, there was another side to this scandal that did not hit the national news until recently. Giuliani had a security detail for his then-mistress, paid for by taxpayer dollars. To top that, the details about these expenses were hidden the budgets of other departments so as not to raise too many questions.

Now, the heat is on Rudy for this one (this is probably why he’s dropping futher in the primary polling). He went on Meet the Press and got grilled by Tim Russert over this. In a clip that’s both humorous and painful to watch, Giuliani tries to explain, unsuccessfully, that it was not his decision to get security for his mistress, it was a decision made by his security staff.

Sorry, Rudy. No one’s buying it. (Thanks to Crooks and Liars for the clip)

 

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The tried and true political strategy of Republican lawmakers is “guns, God and gays”. I find the latter most funny because there are so many gay Republicans. However, in the Republican party, being gay is tantamount to a crime, particularly if you are looking to hold public office.

This brings us to the case of Rep. Richard Curtis, a Washington state legislator. Curtis recently resigned after it was discovered that he had sex with another man he met at an adult video store while at a GOP retreat.

This was uncovered after Curtis went to police that he was being extorted by the man in question, Cody Castagna. Though Curtis initially denied it to newspaper, police reports show that Curtis complained of being extorted by a man with whom he had sex with in a Spokane hotel.

When Castagna was arrested, he told authorities that Curtis had reneged on an agreement to pay $1000 for sex with him. Curtis had only paid him $200 and Castagna threatened to out Curtis if he didn’t pay him the other $800.

According to Curtis, he didn’t solicit sex from the man. Instead, he was trying to “help him out”. Curtis also says that he didn’t give the man $200 for sex. Instead, he gave him only $100 for “gas money”.

Curtis is married, for now.

A Republican successor has been chosen and will serve out the rest of Curtis’ term.

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