Posted on 02/17/2006 7:14:44 PM PST by wagglebee
DALLAS — A Dallas Democrat seeking election to the Texas House of Representatives has acknowledged that he once worked as a prostitute.
Tom Malin, a salesman and actor, said he no longer works as a prostitute but conceded that his previous life could cost him the nomination in the March 7 Democratic primary.
"I've made mistakes in my life, and I've stood before my creator and I've accepted responsibility for my behavior," Malin told The Dallas Morning News for its editions today.
"I've also accepted his grace and his redemption and his love and his forgiveness," and that's what is important, he said.
Archived versions of Web sites that are now defunct advertise the services of a male escort identified as Todd Sharpe. The phone number listed with Sharpe belongs to Malin, The Morning News reported.
Malin, who once was a member of the Dallas Citizens Police Review Board, has also worked as a Mary Kay salesman and performed in Dallas-area theater productions. His candidate Web page describes him as a managing director for the marketing arm of a Dallas electricity provider.
Malin faces retired salesman Jack Borden in the Democratic primary. The winner will face incumbent Republican Dan Branch in November in a race to represent a district covering much of central Dallas.
On his candidate Web page, Malin said he is "committed to giving our families a voice in Austin, with a focus on education, the economy, and restoring a 'spirit of ethics' to our State House."
He said Thursday that he would stay in the race.
"I don't regret my past, nor do I wish to shut the door on my past," he said. "I think anyone who has made mistakes in their lives can be a viable member of community and society."
Former Dallas County Democratic chairwoman Susan Hays, a Malin supporter, said the candidate had informed her about his past.
"He's been a mess, but righted himself," she said. "He's got more honesty and energy than his Democratic opponent and Dan Branch."
The Dallas Tejano Democrats endorsed Malin on Thursday, before the group learned of Malin's prostitution. Chairman Domingo Garcia said Malin did not mention his past during candidate screening.
"Obviously we will have to reconsider our decision based on the new information," Garcia said.
Malin said he's been sober for 13 years after being addicted to alcohol. He said he grew up in an abusive household and that he was abused physically, emotionally and sexually as a child.
Malin said people care about where you're going, not where you've been.
"I know that there are people that can benefit from my experience," he said. "This is not about winning an election; this is about empowerment. There is a higher calling and a higher message involved in this."
I don't know if you want this one or not.
Hmmm, a Democrat former male prostitute (assume he's still a homosexual, since he's a Democrat) running for orifice. I mean office.
John sKerry is basically a gigilo and it didn't cause him any problem with the other 'Rats.
Barney frank???
This guy will NEVER get the Democrat nomination.
Not because he was a gay whore, that's plus in the Democrat Party.
He will get defeated because he invoked the name of God, his creator, in taking responsibility for his past.
-instant disqualification !
No biggie. Just posted the link here hoping that info from both threads could be cross-referenced.
So he's perfectly ready for life as a Dim CONgresscritter, prostituting himself to the unions.
"I don't regret my past, nor do I wish to shut the door on my past," he said.
So this confused person wants to keep making 'mistakes'??
That is a line that is taken almost verbatim from the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous. There is no question that he is confused, but I think you may be reading too much into that statement.
BINGO!!! We've got a winner!
Several years ago in Houston a transvestite (sp?) who had served time for murder ran for something as a Democrat--and got some votes!
LOL!!!!! I wouldn't want to be where he's been!
Malin, who once was a member of the Dallas Citizens Police Review Board, has also worked as a Mary Kay salesman and performed in Dallas-area theater productions. His candidate Web page describes him as a managing director for the marketing arm of a Dallas electricity provider.
Considering he used to be a Mary Kay salesman I am willing to bet he was a prostitute on Broke Back Mountain.
There was an anglo male who had served time for murder in Galveston County, had a sex change operation, adopted the surname of his/her Hispanic lover and ran for the Chairmanship of the Harris County Democrat Party - and won the primary without a run-off!
The Party was very upset with him/her because he/she wasn't the one the Party selected to give the job to. He obviously got a lot of votes because a) folks thought he was a she and b) people thought he was Hispanic. He used the race card and the gender card liberals always exploit to perfection but this did not sit well with the Party's power brokers.
They couldn't fire him/her and they couldn't impeach him/her so the Party met in executive session and stripped the chairmanship bare of any actual power before he/she could be sworn in.
It was a shame because here, in one candidate, they had somebody who could galvanize the women's vote, the homosexual vote, the minority vote, the freak vote and the felon vote by claiming to be "one of them". In other words, he/she was the very FACE of what the Democrat Party has come to represent. And, yet, the "party of tolerance" basically shunned him/her/it and trated him/her/it like an outcast. A real shame I tell ya.
The skills are transferrable.
That was my first thought too.
"I don't regret my past, nor do I wish to shut the door on my past," he said.
So we have a stripper running for office in FL
And a prostitute running for office in TX
What, are you all jealous of NJ's Gay American and what to steal our looney tune title?
If he had given up homosexuality, he wouldn't get the democrat endorsement for his run -- and AP wouldn't strain so conspicuously to omit mention of his homosexuality in the article.
I think he's toast at this point. He can no longer get the Hispanic vote.
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