Oklahoma lawmaker charged with child prostitution resigns

[Grizzled Ol Granddad]

Source: AP

By SEAN MURPHY
Mar. 22, 2017 2:38 PM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma state senator accused of hiring a 17-year-old boy for sex has resigned.

Republican Sen. Ralph Shortey submitted his resignation letter Wednesday. He was arrested last week on charges of engaging in child prostitution, transporting a minor for prostitution and engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of church.

The 35-year-old married father of three is out on $100,000 bond. Oklahoma's most prominent Republican leaders had called for his resignation after he was charged.

Acting on a tip from the teenager's father, police in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore say they went to a Super 8 Hotel earlier this month and smelled marijuana coming from a room. They say they found Shortey and the teenager.


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#1: I hope I haven't duplicated someone else's post. (I apologize, Demmiblue.)
#2: Why am I not surprised that this guy is a Republican?

[louis-t]

1. The list grows.

These people are disgusting.

[rivegauche]

2. More shenanigans from the part of family values! nt

[Ken Burch]

12. When they say "family values"...they don't say WHICH family:

[rivegauche]

13. Ewww (shudder) nt

[gopiscrap]

3. typical republican, they're all like that!

[greyl]

4. He was also Trump Campaign state chair.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/15/1643692/-OK-senator-and-Trump-state-campaign-chair-caught-in-a-motel-with-minor-he-d-been-texting

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-ralph-shortey-motel-room-teenage-boy-olklahoma-senator-a7633121.html

[riversedge]

10. thanks for those links.

[RKP5637]

5. SOS with republicans. They bash gays and they go out and do illegal stuff, I guess in their name of

family values. Why are people so stupid that they can't see through people like this. There have been so many cases like this with republicans and also religious people.

[IronLionZion]

6. He pushed laws against gays and drugs

so of course he had to be punished by his own drug laws. And his future employment options are limited because of the gay discrimination he promoted.

By using the Republican party's own logic about generalizing about wide demographics of people: When there are too many bad apples, there's something wrong with the orchard. There are too many Republican politicians doing this type of behavior, so there must be something wrong with the Republican party. If one Republican does something criminal, they must all be criminals until proven otherwise.

[Aristus]

7. It will only be weeks or months until

he shows up in public with a shit-grin and flop-sweat praising Jesus to the sky and announcing that he has been "saved and forgiven" or something like that...

[left-of-center2012]

16. Wasn't it TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart ...

who got caught with a hooker in a motel room?

[Ken Burch]

8. And somehow, someway, his supporters will blame Hillary and President Obama

[Ken Burch]

9. Meet your future roommates, senator:

[FairWinds]

11. Be very wary of people who . .

claim to be morally superior.

They quite often are hiding dark secrets.

I'm thinking of the entire Rep. party here.

[Bengus81]

14. And like Kansas they just keep voting em in...all in the name of Guns and GOD......n/t

[Kimchijeon]

15. what a great example of conservative values!

[left-of-center2012]

17. The allegations led to ...

The allegations led to Shortey's removal from his volunteer position with the Oklahoma City YMCA's Youth and Government program ...

Before his arrest, Shortey was perhaps best known for introducing a bill in 2012 that would have banned the use of aborted human fetuses in food —