Category: Republican

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Ralph Shortey – Fast Follow-up

Well, just minutes after posting about Sen. Ralph Shortey (R-OK), we have an update on what is going on for him. Things aren’t looking good, with Sen. Shortey now facing child prostitution charges for his involvement with a teenage boy in a hotel room.

Police in Moore have said they’re still investigating the circumstances surrounding a March 9 incident involving Shortey and a teenager. Police did not immediately return a phone call for further comment.

Police released a heavily redacted report that said a juvenile boy was found in a motel room with an adult male on March 9. The names of those in the room and the boy’s age are redacted in the report.

If we hear any more of this in the near future, additional posts will follow.

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Ralph Shortey – Potentially Misbehaving

This falls in the category of possible misbehavior, as there aren’t enough details to know for sure what’s happening here, but Oklahoma Sen. Ralph Shortey makes the site for suspicious behavior in the past few days:

MOORE — Police here are investigating why state Sen. Ralph Shortey was in a hotel room last Thursday with a teenage boy.

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“On March 9 … officers of the Moore Police Department were contacted in reference to a welfare check at a local hotel,” Lt. Kyle Dudley told The Oklahoman. “Responding officers found a juvenile male in a hotel room which was also occupied by an adult male. The circumstances surrounding this incident are currently under investigation and no additional information can be released at this time.”

Politicians Misbehaving will issue a follow-up on this story should it turn out to be much smoke and no fire, so stay tuned. All we can say so far is Sen. Shortey has had all lawmaker privileges suspended by the Oklahoma Senate through unanimous vote.

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Christopher von Keyserling

Stating “I love this new world, I no longer have to be politically correct,” Connecticut politician Christopher von Keyserling joins the ranks of misbehaving politicians in a crotch-grabbing incident reminiscent of Pres. Elect Donald Trump’s “Grab them by the pussy” comment. Von Keyserling’s lawyer claims it was a playful gesture, but I have it on good authority from a few friends that such behavior is not playful nor welcome outside of a sexual context.

In a comment that is all too familiar to those familiar with sexual assault encounters, the victim considered not reporting the incident:

The woman told police she was initially hesitant to file a criminal complaint because of the risk of retribution and the public attention it might bring, according to authorities. However, she decided to do so after she later found out that von Keyserling had allegedly behaved “in a similar way with other employees.”

Please don’t behave this way, folks – it’s not cool, and it does harm the victim.

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Christopher Corley

Well it’s been a couple of months since anyone behaved poorly enough to get a highlight here, but today we can add South Carolina Representative Chris Corley to our slowly growing list of politicians who possibly set a bad example.

A South Carolina House member who rebuked his colleagues in a Christmas card for lacking morals when they took down the Confederate flag is accused of beating his wife and pointing a gun at her, deputies said.

Officers in Aiken County charged Rep. Chris Corley with a pair of felonies that could send him to prison for up to 15 years after he attacked his wife during an argument over infidelity late Monday night at their home in Graniteville, according to a police report.

Sadly, the couple’s children were home during the incident, extending the harm beyond the immediate scope of the wife. Corley’s claim of the cause for the incident is that his wife started hitting him first, so he may have a legitimate personal defense standing here. We’ll just have to watch the news as this unfolds to see if he really did something wrong.

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Mike Hubbard

Adding to the currently short list of politicians misbehaving, we have allegations of ethics violations again former Alabama Republican Party chair Mike Hubbard. Due to the Internet attacks against DNS going on right now, getting to the full indictment right now is a problem, but I’ll update this post with more details when I can get them.

Hubbard, who chaired the Alabama Republican Party from 2007 to 2011, faces charges that include using his office for personal gain and voting for legislation with a conflict of interest, Al.com reported.

Hubbard has claimed that he did nothing wrong and called the investigation a witch hunt, according to the AP.

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Mike Yenni

Annnnnnd we have post #2 for Politicians Misbehaving. This post comes to you compliments of Louisiana Republican Mike Yenni. A couple of days ago, Yenni admitted to sexting a 17-year-old boy in 2015, but says he won’t leave office.

‘Last summer I was old enough to know better, but I guess I was still young enough to do something stupid,’ 40-year-old Jefferson Parish President Mike Yenni says in the video posted by NOLA.com.

His remarks come just over a week after the FBI confirmed it was investigating claims he had an improper relationship with the teen, which included kissing him, buying him underwear and sending sexts of threesome fantasies.

Yenni says he plans to stay in office to prove a person can rise above a bad decision. He vows to not repeat the past. Whether that means he won’t engage in inappropriate activities with a youth or whether he just means he intends to not get caught should he do this again remains to be seen.