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   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:54:20 -0000 (UTC),  Pudgy the Orange Hate Whale says...   
      
   > Then why are all the pedophiles Republicans?   
      
   WHO said they were?   
      
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   REP. JOHN YOUNG (D-Tex.):   
   Colleen Gardner, a former staff secretary to Young, told the New York Times   
   that Young increased her salary after she gave in to his sexual advances. In   
   November, Young, who had run unopposed in the safe Democratic district five   
   consecutive times, w More.. as reelected with just 61 percent of the vote. The   
   scandal wouldn't go away, and in 1978 Young was defeated in a Democratic   
   primary runoff.   
      
   REP. ALLAN HOWE (D-Utah):   
   Howe was arrested in Salt Lake City on charges of soliciting two policewomen   
   posing as prostitutes. Howe insisted he was set up and refused to resign. But   
   the Democratic Party distanced itself from his candidacy and he was trounced   
   by   
   his Republican opponent in the November election.   
      
   REP. FRED RICHMOND (D-N.Y.):   
   Richmond was arrested in Washington for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy.   
   Richmond apologized for his actions, conceding he "made bad judgments   
   involving   
   my private life." In spite of a Democratic primary opponent's attempts to cash   
   in on the headlines, Richmond easily won renomination and reelection. But his   
   career came to an end four years later when, after pleading guilty to   
   possession of marijuana and tax evasion - and amid allegations that he had his   
   staff procure cocaine for him - he resigned his seat.   
      
   REP. JOHN HINSON (D-Miss.):   
   During his first reelection bid, Hinson stunned everyone by announcing that in   
   1976 he had been accused of committing an obscene act at a gay haunt in   
   Virginia. Hinson, married and a strong conservative, added that in 1977 he had   
   survived a fire in a gay D.C. movie theater. He was making the disclosure, he   
   said, because he needed to clear his conscience. But he denied he was a   
   homosexual and refused GOP demands that he resign. Hinson won reelection in a   
   three-way race, with 39 percent of the vote. But three months later, he was   
   arrested on charges of attempted oral sodomy in the restroom of a House office   
   building. He resigned his seat on April 13, 1981.   
      
   REP. ROBERT BAUMAN (D-Md.):   
   Bauman, a leading "pro-family" conservative, pleaded innocent to a charge that   
   he committed oral sodomy on a teenage boy in Washington. Married and the   
   father   
   of four, Bauman conceded that he had been an alcoholic but had been seeking   
   treatment. The news came as a shock to voters of the rural, conservative   
   district, and he lost to a Democrat in November.   
      
   REP. DAN CRANE (R-Ill.) and REP. GERRY STUDDS (D-Mass.):   
   The House ethics committee on July 14, 1983, announced that Crane and Studds   
   had sexual relationships with teenage congressional pages - Crane with a 17-   
   year-old female in 1980, Studds with a 17-year-old male in 1973. Both admitted   
   the charges that same day, and Studds acknowledged he was gay. The committee   
   voted to reprimand the two, but a back-bench Georgia Republican named Newt   
   Gingrich argued that they should be expelled. The full House voted on July 20   
   instead to censure the two, the first time that ever happened for sexual   
   misconduct. Crane, married and the father of six, was tearful in his apology   
   to   
   the House, while Studds refused to apologize. Crane's conservative district   
   voted him out in 1984, while the voters in Studds's more liberal district were   
   more forgiving. Studds won reelection in 1984 with 56 percent of the vote, and   
   continued to win until he retired in 1996.   
      
   SEN. BROCK ADAMS (D-Wash.):   
   Seattle newspapers reported that Kari Tupper, the daughter of Adams's longtime   
   friends, filed a complaint against the Washington Democrat in July of 1987,   
   charging sexual assault. She claimed she went to Adams's house in March 1987   
   to   
   get him to end a pattern of harassment, but that he drugged her and assaulted   
   her. Adams denied any sexual assault, saying they only talked about her   
   employment opportunities. Adams continued raising campaign funds and declared   
   for a second term in February of 1992. But two weeks later the Seattle Times   
   reported that eight other women were accusing Adams of sexual molestation over   
   the past 20 years, describing a history of drugging and subsequent rape. Later   
   that day, while still proclaiming his innocence, Adams ended his campaign.   
      
   REP. JIM BATES (D-Calif.):   
   Roll Call quoted former Bates aides in October 1988 saying that the San Diego   
   Democrat made sexual advances toward female staffers. Bates called it a GOP-   
   inspired smear campaign, but also apologized for anything he did that might   
   have seemed inappropriate. The story came too close to Election Day to damage   
   Bates, who won easily. However, the following October the ethics committee   
   sent   
   Bates a "letter of reproval" directing him to make a formal apology to the   
   women who filed the complaint. Although the district was not thought to be   
   hospitable to the GOP, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a former Navy pilot who was   
   once shot down over North Vietnam, ousted Bates in 1990 by fewer than 2,000   
   votes.   
      
   REP. GUS SAVAGE (D-Ill.):   
   Savage had fondled a Peace Corps volunteer while on an official visit to   
   Zaire.   
   Savage called the story a lie and blamed it on his political enemies and a   
   racist media. (Savage is black.) In January 1990, the House ethics committee   
   decided that the events did occur, but decided against any disciplinary action   
   because Savage wrote a letter to the woman saying he "never intended to   
   offend" her. Savage was reelected in 1990, but finally ousted in the 1992   
   primary by Mel Reynolds.   
      
   REP. BARNEY FRANK (D-Mass.):   
   In response to a story in the Washington Times, Frank confirmed that he hired   
   Steve Gobie, a male prostitute, in 1985 to live with and work for him in his   
   D.C. apartment. But Frank, who is gay, said he fired Gobie in 1987 when he   
   learned he was using the apartment to run a prostitution service. The Boston   
   Globe, among others, called on Frank to resign, but he refused. On July 19,   
   1990, the ethics committee recommended Frank be reprimanded because he   
   "reflected discredit upon the House" by using his congressional office to fix   
   33 of Gobie's parking tickets. Attempts to expel or censure Frank failed;   
      
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