Republican campaign manager has sexual history with minors

[kpete]

Republican campaign manager has sexual history with minors

The Republican Party has a campaign manager in the state of Arizona by the name of Steve Aiken who was convicted back in 1995 of having sexual relations with a teenager. ABC News has the story:

A man convicted of "corruption of minors" after being accused of having sex with two teenage girls is working as the campaign manager for a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona, according to documents obtained by ABC News.

Steve Aiken, a former Quakertown, Pa. police officer and self-proclaimed reverend, was convicted of two counts of corruption of a minor stemming from his 1995 sexual relationships with two teenage girls. He served almost two-and-a-half months at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility.

Aiken is listed as campaign manager for Randy Graf, a Republican in a five-way primary for the Congressional seat in Arizona's 8th district.

It is also worth mentioning that Steve Aiken, other than being the campaign manager for U.S. House candidate Randy Graf, has a radio show based out of Tucson, Arizona called "Straight from the Hip." On his personal web site, SteveAiken.com, he describes himself as a "working class conservative," and claims to host "the fastest growing talk radio show in Arizona."

Even more interesting, Aiken was once the Communications Director for the Traditional Values Coalition, a group that represents 43,000 churches nationwide in the ongoing effort to ban gay marriage. And back in 2001, as member of that coalition, Aiken wrote a press release about how Harry Potter promotes Wicca, a "witchcraft" religion that he said advocates "homosexuality" and "abortion as a sacred act."

U.S. House candidate Randy Graf, whose campaign is being managed by Steve Aiken, is trying to fill the House seat of retiring Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe.

more at:
http://thebluestate.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/republican_camp.html

[rurallib]

1. It's OK if your a republican. Really. It's in the law.

[peacebird]

2. are they all pedophiles and homophobic?

sheesh - it sure seems like an awful lot of the "Family Values" crowd has awfully warped "values".....

[villager]

10. yes, they are, and I'm not joking.

Their entire politics is based on projection and denial of their innermost desires and impulses...

[Djinn]

19. while many R voters

wouldn't see the distinction having sex with a teenager does not neccesarilly mean you're a paedo, there's a rather large difference between having sex with a 13 year old and having sex with a 17 year old.

what age are we talking about here?

[Sapphocrat]

3. Urgent request to Repug sex offenders!

Dear Republicans,

Would you kindly call a moratorium on this sort of behavior, say, for the summer?

I CAN'T KEEP UP!

Love,
Cordially,

Your Faithful Republican-Perversion Monitor

P.S. Here's a helpful suggestion to those of you who seem unable to stop practicing your "family values" over the next three months: Send the kids to camp!

[Redstone]

4. Holy shit! I think I went to high school with that guy! No joke...

I need to find a picture. Anybody got a link to a pic?

Redstone

[charlie]

5. Was he an Uncle Festerish looking dude?

http://straightfromthehip.com/photos.php

[Redstone]

8. See #7 below. And thank you.

Redstone

[LeftyMom]

6. ask and ye shall recieve

Here the guy is with an assortment of his fellow republican assholes. http://straightfromthehip.com/photos.php

[Redstone]

7. Thanks. That's not the Steve Aiken I went to school with, and

thank God it's not. I liked the guy; we did several acts of sabotage together.

What a relief!

Redstone

[LeftyMom]

9. Good to hear.

:hi:

[Redstone]

11. At our 25th reunion (10 years ago, my god), he listed himself in

the program as being the Sheriff and head of the Republican Party in Gilpin County, Colorado. When, in truth, he was a stoner and a ski bum.

I'm SO happy to find out that this clown was not him. He probably still is a stoner and a ski bum, and god bless him for that.

Redstone

[UTUSN]

12. I'm pleased to be K&R ----------- #5 !!!!!!!!!!!11 n/t

[AlamoDemoc]

13. K&R...we need a picture of this asshole

[LeftyMom]

14. See posts five and six

Loads of pics at the link

http://straightfromthehip.com/photos.php

[AlamoDemoc]

15. thanks...got it

[Sapphocrat]

20. Oh dear...

I guess actor James Sikking is a Repuke...?

One more to add to my list of actors never to watch again.

[smoogatz]

16. Republicans--the party of Family Values.

Keeping your children safe, so they can fuck them.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

17. I'm thinking all Republicans are either criminals, pedophiles, and liars

What a sick group Republicans are!

[Roland99]

18. When they fight so hard to keep the government in your bedroom

they are just projecting for their own guilt.