Spokane Mayor James E. West Recalled

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[sonsofliberty2000]

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) A tally of mail-in votes shows Mayor James E. West has been recalled from office over allegations he used his office computer to woo young gay men over the Internet.

[Hank Rearden]

Well it's expected of Democrats to be amoral sleazebags. We have a higher standard though in the GOP.

Now that's hilarious!

[NYCVirago]

I'm not defending the departing mayor, but has a newspaper ever hired someone to entrap a gay Democrat? Again, I have no problem with the media going after exposing politicians with improprieties, but am nearly certain that any Democrat in his position would have been given a free pass.

I'm completely certain of that. Look at the way the RATs in the media handled former NJ Gov. McGreevey's gayness -- even though they knew he was gay, and were fairly sure that he had put his boy toy in charge of homeland security, they never wrote a peep about it.

[SmithL]

You are the weakest link.

Goodbye!

[TaxRelief]

In Blue States, most GOP candidates rank lower on the moral scale than their Dem counterparts. Why? Because very few of them are true Republicans: Those who run under the GOP banner have generally chosen their party because of "winnability". In other words, they'll do or say anything to win.

The true Republicans in Blue States have left.

[Calusa]

In other words, they'll do or say anything to win. In fact I think liberals cultivate apostate RINOS just to have a stock of scapegoats to throw to the lions when the circumstances warrant. Who was that Oregon senator who had groped all the women over twenty years. While he was a useful idiot the dems doted on him. But when it was time for an Auto-da-fe his bones crackled merrily in the femenist bonfire.

[freema]

and a cigar.

[freema]

Bill Clinton, you have a call on line 1.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Note the perverts no longer resign when caught.

[billbears]

Well it's expected of Democrats to be amoral sleazebags. We have a higher standard though in the GOP

LOL!!!! < /wiping the tears from my eyes> Thank you. I did need a laugh this morning. All politicians these days are hacks. If they get to the point that they have support to run for office, they more than likely have skeletons in their closets. Republicans are no different than Democrats

[mikrofon]

Wild Wild West

[Itzlzha]

[Spokane]

I'm not defending the departing mayor, but has a newspaper ever hired someone to entrap a gay Democrat? Again, I have no problem with the media going after exposing politicians with improprieties, but am nearly certain that any Democrat in his position would have been given a free pass.

Agreed. I'm glad it's over. West should have resigned a long time ago. I heard on the news this morning that there is a ten day transition to an interim mayor to fill out the rest of the term.

The subtle difference here though, is that the paper didn't only expose West's improprieties, they "became" the impropriety.

[Inwoodian]

Turd Burglar alert

[Calusa]

» Who was that Oregon senator who had groped all the women...

That's right, Bob Peckerwood...

[cherry]

no , the scum of a paper has never went after democrats or those that view female porn from their computers or those that harass the female employees or give special jobs or incentives to those females that "cooperate"...

FWIW..the local paper is owned by a local rich family that just ONE WEEK before the "allegations" surfaced, settled a long dispute between them and the city over suspicious finacial manerverings on the part the the family....the city has lost millions and will be paying millions more to this elitist family becuase of very peculiar dealings, giving essentially the rich family a HUGE winfall.......it involved HUD funds, security fraud , etc....

so this up and up family has their paper investigate or one would say entrap West .....they admit they had two full time reporters on the "story" for two years...

this same paper never reported on the finacial dealings of its owners in any but a glancing view....no indept investigation needed I guess when your owners are the shisters....

I would never vote for any openly gay man....however, there has been NO PROOF of any wrong doing, and the only ones who have come forward I suspect were gay activists to begin with.....

I hope he sues the Spokesman Review for a half a billion.....

[cherry]

"Western Washington is pretty solid Republican country."

"western Washington" is Seattle....a notorious demoncrat hell hole where our esteemed Gov. "won" the election IMO via voting fraud after 3 vote "counts".....

Spokane is in eastern Washington...a totally differant area geographically, culturally, and finacially......as well as politically, although Tom Foley was here for 30 yrs and he was a Democrap, and coincidentally, also rumored to be "gay" FWIW......

[dfwgator]

Bob Packwood?

Uh huh huh, you said "wood."

[TaxRelief]

In fact I think liberals cultivate apostate RINOS just to have a stock of scapegoats to throw to the lions when the circumstances warrant...

That's certainly the case here in NC.

NC state Dem leader bribes Republican state house member

[Calusa]

Great!