Posted on 05/03/2021 3:00:52 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Former Oregon House Speaker and current Clackamas Community College board member Dave Hunt was cited by Portland police in an undercover sex traffic sting operation in April.
Contacted by the Portland Tribune on Monday, May 3, Hunt said, "I don't think I should talk about that."
Clackamas Community College announced several hours later that Hunt was taking a leve from the board.
As a legislator, Hunt was one of numerous sponsors of a bill criminalizing sex trafficking in 2007. In 2011, he also voted for HB 2714, that bill created the crime of commercial sexual solicitation, the crime for which he was arrested and cited.
The Portland Police Bureau issued a press release May 1, saying its Human Trafficking Unit had cited eight men in an operation conducted in April. Officers posted online decoy ads on known human trafficking websites, and the subjects who "contacted undercover police officers to arrange payment for sexual acts" were criminally cited on the charge of commercial sexual solicitation.
The release did not name those cited, but said the list was available on request. The Portland Tribune requested the list and received it Monday morning, April 3. It included "53-year-old David Hunt of Milwaukie."
Reporters at the Portland Tribune then requested and received a portion of the police report. The suspect has the same full name, date of birth and home address as the former speaker and current CCC board member. It said he was arrested and cited on April 28 by two Portland police officers at a Ramada Inn in Southeast Portland.
A Democrat, Hunt served as state representative for District 40 of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing Clackamas County from 2003 to 2013. He was elected Oregon House majority leader for the 2007-2009 session and served as speaker during the 2009-11 session.
After leaving the Legislature, Hunt served as president & CEO of the Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition for five years and as senior vice-president of Strategies 360 for three years. He currently serves as president and CEO of Columbia Public Affairs, where he is also a registered Oregon lobbyist.
According to the police bureau, the Human Trafficking Unit is one of its oldest units. It added two additional detectives along with an additional sergeant and four officers in 2020, giving it the investigative capacity to follow up on felony-level Measure 11 crimes while simultaneously conducting rescue missions for victims of trafficking and affecting the demand side of trafficking by conducting periodic buyer suppression missions.
Due to both COVID-19 restrictions and months of nightly civil unrest, the unit's work was severely curtailed for most of the year. Its operations included six surveillance missions, 100 hours of remote review surveillance, two buyer suppression missions, and four rescue/trafficker suppression missions.
Not until the FOURTEENTH sentence is his political affiliation mentioned, even though he is a politician!
Yes, he’s a *D*.
Gotta read eight paragraphs down before you learn his political affiliation.
I’m amazed they mentioned he was a Democrat.
Notice that the party affiliation is only mentioned once, buried in the middle of the article ...
Too bad his name wasn’t Mike.
Would’ve loved to hear all the newscasters covering the story.
Especially the lead sentence.
Should see what happened to his brother, Mike.
17 seconds, darn ye.
Of course that’s a given..if he were a Republican the headline would be “REPUBLICAN Oregon House Speaker cited in sex trafficking sting..and don’t forget he’s a REPUBLICAN!”
Why does it take eight paragraphs to find out he’s a democrat? If he were a republican, that info would have appeared in the title.
So he is in trouble for trying to pick up police? Funny they don’t ever seem to go after real sex trafficking.
Could be Amish, just line when someone does something. *bada*boom*kisk*
And yet dozens and dozens of other pedophiles in gov’t are running loose free as birds.
Strange...
What a dedicated public servant, doing research of human trafficking on his own time.
Because either they are running the show, or can be blackmailed into doing what the people running the show want.
Blackmail is the only way many things in politics make sense.
It’s the missing link
Porky’s!
It’s good to see Portland cops stinging Dem leaders as pervs. Karma.
If he had not been a Democrat the headline would have read “Republican Former Oregon House Speaker...”
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