Masturbator wants to be sheriff

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http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20061014/NEWS/110140071/0/FRONTPAGE

A video that sheriff's candidate Rick Magnuson made more than a year ago - and that GrassRoots Television has shown 27 times - has created controversy only a few weeks before Election Day.

Magnuson admitted the video shows him masturbating. The shot, however, is from far away and Magnuson says the piece was a legitimate mode of self-expression.

Magnuson, the Aspen Police Department's community safety officer, is challenging 20-year incumbent Bob Braudis for the office of Pitkin County sheriff.

The 12-minute movie shows Magnuson digging a hole in the Mojave Desert on his 40th birthday. When he strikes water, the shot switches to about 20 yards away, with Magnuson's back to the viewer as he faces the hole and masturbates into it.
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