[conservative in nyc]

More from signondandiego here:

The recall petition contended West used his political office for personal benefit by offering a city internship to someone he thought was an 18-year-old man he'd met in a gay online chat room. The person, who West knew by the screen name "Moto-Brock," actually was a computer expert hired by the [Spokane Spokesman-Review] to track the mayor's activities in a Gay.com chat room.

West, who has not been charged with any crime, acknowledged making mistakes in his personal life, but asked voters to give him a second chance.

The newspaper also printed allegations by two men with criminal records that West molested them when they were children and he was a sheriff's deputy and Boy Scout leader in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

I guess the Spokane Spokesman-Review is more honest in its reporting than the Washington Post. If the MD4Bush affair has taught us anything, the WaPo would have claimed the chat room messages magically appeared in its reporter's laps, without knowing how they got them.

Recalled=removed from office by a vote of the people before his term was up. Just like Grey Davis in California.

[Diddle E. Squat]

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.