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West tied to sex abuse in '70s, using office to lure young men
The Spokane Spokesman-Review ^ | 5-05-05 | Bill Morlin

Posted on 05/05/2005 8:28:37 PM PDT by USMale

Edited on 05/05/2005 9:54:01 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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To: USMale
There's enough there for two acres of pine trees to build at least fourteen log cabins and not an outhouse in sight.

Whose ox is being gored here?

21 posted on 05/05/2005 9:13:00 PM PDT by Old Professer (As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
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To: Delta 21

ping for a.m. coffee , I don't want bad dreams tonight


22 posted on 05/05/2005 9:22:15 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: question!

Wasn't the perp in question anti-gay, pro family values and so forth advocate?

Makes him doubly wierd in my books if he was.


23 posted on 05/05/2005 9:24:48 PM PDT by Tungenchek
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To: USMale
There isn't a pit too deep.
24 posted on 05/05/2005 9:29:23 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: USMale
"I can't tell you why I go there, (gay.com) to tell you the truth … curiosity, confused, whatever, I don't know," the mayor said.

I can: he's a pervert.

25 posted on 05/05/2005 9:33:18 PM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: USMale

One man, Robert J. Galliher, claims in a court deposition that Jim West molested him in the mid-1970s when he was a boy and West was a Spokane County sheriff's deputy and Boy Scout leader.

A second man, Michael G. Grant Jr., also accuses West of sexual abuse during the same era, including an incident at Camp Cowles, a Boy Scout camp on Diamond Lake.

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Rob Galliher has accused Jim West and David D. Hahn, who were Spokane County sheriff's deputies at the time, of child molestation in the 1970s.


26 posted on 05/05/2005 9:41:51 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: USMale
Rumors about inappropriate sexual behavior have shadowed West for years in state political circles, but no one has talked publicly until now.

I don't care what party this slime ball is. He needs to go down and go down hard. This makes me sick!

27 posted on 05/05/2005 9:55:35 PM PDT by Humidston (Rats = Party of DEATH)
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28 posted on 05/05/2005 10:09:39 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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To: USMale
On one recent occasion, West offered a man he believed to be an 18-year-old – whom he met online at Gay.com – gifts, favors and a City Hall internship.... Last June, West went on a dinner date with another 18-year-old he met in the same gay chat room.

This guy has got to be what, 45 or 50 years old? And he's actively seeking 18 year-olds for sex? He IS a pedophile and just as sick as sick gets. Puke.

29 posted on 05/05/2005 10:18:08 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: bigfootbob
they also just passed partner medical benefits, although I think West actually voted against that....

I'm from here, although not in the city.....

the one thing that bugs me the most is the city has been thru about 4 mayors now over the last few years, and there has been a long, drawn out fight with the owners of the Spokesman-Review.....

the owners.....Cowles family....were accused of skirting the law to get big bucks from the city....the case will cost the taxpapers many, many millions for years to come.....

there was somekind of settlement just a week or two ago....

the Review , being slave to their owners....have under-reported and reported slanted stories about the owners......

now, after the settlement, they come out with this block-buster, which they have been "working " on for two years....

just goes to prove that when you've got the gold, you rule......nobody stands in your way....

30 posted on 05/05/2005 10:23:45 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Humidston
I can tell you all one thing about Jim West....who I've supported throughout his career....

my dtr worked at the Gop headquarters last year off and on, and there was this mighty fine looking young man who was in town from Seattle......of course, Jim West supposedly "put him up" at his apartment......makes you wonder, doesn't it......

31 posted on 05/05/2005 10:26:58 PM PDT by cherry
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To: kcvl

Oh, geez....

My aunt had a cabin directly across thge lake from Camp Cowles for many years. It's sickening to think that kind of crap was going on over there.

This freak has put a stain on the city of Spokane that's going to take a LOT to get out.


32 posted on 05/05/2005 10:36:43 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Revolution is now the ONLY option.)
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To: cherry

"As Spokane mayor, West threatened to veto a measure extending benefits to domestic partners of city employees. But the City Council approved the measure by a 5-2 vote, enough to override a mayoral veto."


33 posted on 05/05/2005 10:37:39 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: bigfootbob

Perhaps he KNEW the vote would swing that way, and voted against as a 'red herring'.

Sneaky.


34 posted on 05/05/2005 10:38:52 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Revolution is now the ONLY option.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Chickenhawk, not a pedophile.

I resent the press using the term pedophile to disguise the activities of predatory homosexuals, who seem to favor teens. An 18 year old girl is not a child, but an 8 year old is. These homosexuals (most of the priests) favor teenagers, not pre-pubescent children. That does not make them more or less despicable. Anyone who uses his or her position to exploit another should be fed to hungry (but slow eating) rats, in my opinion.


35 posted on 05/05/2005 10:39:39 PM PDT by sine_nomine (Protect the weakest of the weak - the unborn babies.)
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To: USMale

for the record, not THIS Jim West:
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/wild-wild-west-bwda.jpg


36 posted on 05/05/2005 10:41:25 PM PDT by isom35
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To: hoagy62

Spokane will be OK. This will pass. People will want to forget.


37 posted on 05/05/2005 10:46:32 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: bigfootbob
Spokane WILL survive....this is an area built on plain old hard work ( railroads...lumber....farming...mining...aluminum production) and even though those industries are on the down side, the attitude is still there.......

I think West should resign, just for using city computers to do his bidding, and Cherie Rodgers should be elected mayor....

38 posted on 05/05/2005 10:55:03 PM PDT by cherry
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To: MindBender26
Wild Wild WEST?
39 posted on 05/05/2005 11:03:43 PM PDT by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: USMale

I am dumbfounded. How in the world did this guy get elected mayor?! I've been to Spokane and it's not that big. My experience has always been that rumors travel fast through a small city. How did he manage to keep this under wraps for so long when so many people now seem to have known about his predilection all along?


40 posted on 05/05/2005 11:15:57 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (http://sonoma-moderate.blogspot.com/)
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