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Oklahoma Senator Caught In Hotel Room With Underage Boy

Drain the swamp.
 
An update from Channel 4 television in Oklahoma...


MOORE, Okla. - Oklahoma Senator Ralph Shortey is under investigation for an incident at a motel with a teenage boy.

Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn told NewsChannel 4 the boy is 16 or 17, and that is the age of consent in Oklahoma.

Shortey is 35.

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The incident took place at a Super 8 in Moore.

We’re told police are reviewing text messages between Senator Shortey and the teen to determine if anything criminal has occurred.

It was those text messages that led the boy's family to call police, according to Mashburn.

We do not know what was contained in those messages.


Oklahoma Senator under investigation for incident at motel with teen boy | KFOR.com


Age of consent in OK is 16. It's said the senator was down on his knees praying but some say that would be speculation. The praying bit that is.

The late Congressman Gerry Studds btw had consensual sex with a 16 year old page in the District of Columbia where the age of consent is 16 (17 in Massachusetts).
 
beefheart said:
Lets see: Conservative, check, Evangelical Christian, check, Politician, check, Birther, check, State Chair for Trump Campaign, check.

Why is it that the most rock ribbed evangelical Christians always get caught doing this kind of stuff?
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The more secure the closet, the more skeletons it contains....
 
beefheart said:
Lets see: Conservative, check, Evangelical Christian, check, Politician, check, Birther, check, State Chair for Trump Campaign, check.

Why is it that the most rock ribbed evangelical Christians always get caught doing this kind of stuff?
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IMO that's a bit of a myth. Sex scandals are non-partisan in nature.

At any rate, this is obviously a terrible situation all around.
 
Keeping up with hard news and events....


Child prostitution charges brought against Oklahoma lawmaker

Oklahoma prosecutors on Thursday filed child prostitution charges against a Republican state senator after police found him in a hotel room with a 17-year-old boy.

Ralph Shortey, 35, is charged in Cleveland County with engaging in child prostitution, transporting a minor for prostitution and engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of church. An arrest warrant was issued for him.

Moore police said that acting on a tip from the teen's father, officers went to the Super 8 Hotel last week and smelled marijuana coming from a room. They found Shortey and the teen alone inside.

A search of the teen's tablet uncovered a series of sexually explicit exchanges in which Shortey offered the teen cash in exchange for "sexual stuff," according to a police report. Police also found lotion and a box of condoms inside a backpack in the room.

The age of consent in Oklahoma is 16, but Oklahoma's prostitution statute applies to any person under 18 years old.

Child prostitution charges brought against Oklahoma lawmaker


The teen's father busted his own son. Dear ole dad might have instead turned the texts over to the authorities rather than bust his own son and so publicly besides. Solicitation charges would be more than enough against the guy Shortey who is, after all, a good God-fearing upstanding member of the community and a leader of it as an elected official.

The father could have brought Shortey to his knees without letting the kid go ahead for the rendezvous. Seems to me the focus is on the sleazebag Christian adult and public official not the kid. The kid may end up in the slammer too simply because his father let him go ahead to the hotel. It was the family that made the call to the police...the father.
 
Visbek said:
IMO that's a bit of a myth. Sex scandals are non-partisan in nature.

At any rate, this is obviously a terrible situation all around.
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The sex scandals just seem worse when it is someone who puts their religion at the forefront for the public to see and admire.
 
beefheart said:
Lets see: Conservative, check, Evangelical Christian, check, Politician, check, Birther, check, State Chair for Trump Campaign, check.

Why is it that the most rock ribbed evangelical Christians always get caught doing this kind of stuff?


Oklahoma Senator Caught In Hotel Room With Underage Boy


Oklahoma Senator Caught In Hotel Room With Underage Boy
March 15, 2017 by Michael Stone 0 Comments

Family Values: Christian conservative and Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey is busted with an underage boy in his hotel room; police recommend 3 prostitution-related charges.

Senator Shortey, a member of Donald Trump’s leadership team in Oklahoma, will be charged with soliciting prostitution of a minor, prostitution within 1000 feet of a church, and transporting for the purpose of prostitution, according to a report filed by KOCO News.

Shortey was found with a teenage boy in a motel in the town of Moore on the night of March 9, after an anonymous tip was made to police requesting for a welfare check on the hotel room.

Lt. Kyle Dudley told NewsOK.com:

On March 9 … officers of the Moore Police Department were contacted in reference to a welfare check at a local hotel. 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.

Shortey, 35, represents Oklahoma City. Elected in 2010, the senator is a prominent Christian conservative in Oklahoma politics, known for being a birther, and a Trump supporter. Raw Story reports Shortey was the state chair of President Donald Trump’s campaign during the primary elections.

According to reports, Shortey “attended Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City in preparation for mission work in Uganda,” before beginning his political career.

Before being busted with an underage boy in his hotel room, the anti-abortion, Christian conservative made national news in 2012 when he proposed a bill that would ban human fetuses from being used in food.
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isn't that cute? Shorty was gonna go to work for God but instead went to work for Satan, the GOP.
 
americanwoman said:
I can't imagine what his wife and kids are going through right now, that selfish bastard.
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his wife is probably glad she found out now instead of 5 or 10 years from now.
She's probably also glad they only have daughters since Daddy likes boys.
 
beefheart said:
Lets see: Conservative, check, Evangelical Christian, check, Politician, check, Birther, check, State Chair for Trump Campaign, check.

Why is it that the most rock ribbed evangelical Christians always get caught doing this kind of stuff?


Oklahoma Senator Caught In Hotel Room With Underage Boy


Oklahoma Senator Caught In Hotel Room With Underage Boy
March 15, 2017 by Michael Stone 0 Comments

Family Values: Christian conservative and Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey is busted with an underage boy in his hotel room; police recommend 3 prostitution-related charges.

Senator Shortey, a member of Donald Trump’s leadership team in Oklahoma, will be charged with soliciting prostitution of a minor, prostitution within 1000 feet of a church, and transporting for the purpose of prostitution, according to a report filed by KOCO News.

Shortey was found with a teenage boy in a motel in the town of Moore on the night of March 9, after an anonymous tip was made to police requesting for a welfare check on the hotel room.

Lt. Kyle Dudley told NewsOK.com:

On March 9 … officers of the Moore Police Department were contacted in reference to a welfare check at a local hotel. 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.

Shortey, 35, represents Oklahoma City. Elected in 2010, the senator is a prominent Christian conservative in Oklahoma politics, known for being a birther, and a Trump supporter. Raw Story reports Shortey was the state chair of President Donald Trump’s campaign during the primary elections.

According to reports, Shortey “attended Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City in preparation for mission work in Uganda,” before beginning his political career.

Before being busted with an underage boy in his hotel room, the anti-abortion, Christian conservative made national news in 2012 when he proposed a bill that would ban human fetuses from being used in food.
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Bigot, check.
 
beefheart said:
I went to Catholic school from K-12......lots of pedos in my parish...even a bishop.

Its not a hack job when its true.....avoid them republican policticians with the "wide stand" at your local public restroom...:lamo
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..and I can offer up a nice steaming plateful of Portland, OR liberals who were pedos as well. In the late 80's/early 90's there was a short-lived scandal in Portland about counselors at clinics for young folks questioning their sexuality taking the kids home and having sex with them so that they could have first hand experience and make a better decision. A whole bunch of people were arrested and then suddenly the whole case evaporated at the request of the Mayor's office. This went from front page news one day to a small "page 7" article the next and the counselors went bock to their jobs. I found about this from a neighbor of mine who used to be a PPD officer and left the force there because of this. Then we can throw the Portland mayor who openly admitted to making out with a minor in a restroom and still got elected. So if I use YOUR standard, then all you liberals (and especially Portland liberals) are a bunch of either child molesters or are aiding child molesters. Sounds pretty stupid doesn't it??
 
Used to be myth that only the liberul commie preverts did these things and many activities like them. The immoral and degenerate left and so on and so on.

Then came the Republican Congressman Bob Bauman caught not with a dead woman but with a live boy (15) and a mouthful in a Washington sleazebag sex hotel. The right wing dominoes of sexual activity began to topple after that, with some Democrats thrown in between the conservative evangelical and upstanding Christian members of the 'normal' community. Down there on their knees in prayer.

Republicans and the good Christian upstanding right....for God and Country...and Satan. Jekyll and Hyde Christianity...but only because they make it to be so. Pretension is yet another kind of downfall.
 
tres borrachos said:
made national news in 2012 when he proposed a bill that would ban human fetuses from being used in food.

Wut the.....?
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But I like fetus-flavored food. :(
 
TheGoverness said:
Yes, they are in poor taste. Obviously Trump has nothing to do with this.
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It's really obnoxious when liberals face plant and end up garnering sympathy for Trump. But this is all that wing of the party has, just "Trump, Trump, Trump" and bull**** platitudes. We'll see how it goes after the 2018 and 2020 primaries.
 
FieldTheorist said:
It's really obnoxious when liberals face plant and end up garnering sympathy for Trump. But this is all that wing of the party has, just "Trump, Trump, Trump" and bull**** platitudes. We'll see how it goes after the 2018 and 2020 primaries.
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We know already how they'd go given Putin has the goods on Trump. And very likely has the goods on the bunch of Trumpeteers.

Putin can show some goodwill by terminating his prohibition of Americans adopting Russian children. After all, Putin and his pet Trump do care about the matter and such other social and international issues. Each is such a stellar example to kids everywhere.

Then again maybe not eh.
 
American said:
It was you who picked a piece that had Trump's name in it enough times to raise an eyebrow, considering it had nothing to do with him. Partisan much?
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I guess the part about being the chairman of his campaign in OK was easily overlooked by you...:lamo
 
vesper said:
It makes me very sad when I even hear of allegations of an underage kid being used for sexual favors. There has been a lot in the news about teachers having sex with their students lately and they are going to jail. Before that there was the scandal of priests involved in the Catholic church abusing boys. Two professions right there a parent wouldn't normally concern themselves interacting with their children. But not so much these days.

So far the report says he was caught with an underage boy in a hotel room. That doesn't look good.

The fact that he is a Republican is only fodder for the left who are not being honest with the history of their own sex scandals within the party.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat in regard to these things is Republicans will immediately throw one of their own under the bus for such actions. Democrats, not so much.

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R) was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $250,000 to a victims' fund in a hush money case that revealed he was being accused of sexually abusing young boys as a teacher in Illinois. The 74 year old admitted in court to abusing several young boys as their wrestling coach. Of course this didn't happen until long after he left office but while he was in office there were rumors running rampant that some of his male aides were living with him in his Washington residence eluding to something else. You haven't heard a Republican mention the name Dennis Hastert in a long time.

Now compare that to Rep. Barney Frank (D). The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank’s residence in the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990. This happened the same time Hastert was Speaker of the House. And another case that happened around the same time was Former Rep. Gerry Studds (D). He was censured for sexual relationship with underage male page in 1983. Massachusetts voters didn't seem to mind because they returned him to office 6 more terms. Did the voters even know about Studds censure and behavior related to it? Could be because when it comes to reporting on politicians the MSM is very selective on who they report on and who they do not.

Remember the Gore/Edwards ticket in 2004? Edwards was a former senator of N.C.. They ended up losing but not after a tumultuous fight in Florida and managing delaying Bush's administration to get up and running. But it doesn't stop there with Edwards..... he became a candidate in the Democratic primary for president in 2008. All the MSM knew of his affair and love child during the primary but decided not to report on it. His affair had been going on for sometime while his wife was fighting for her life diagnosed with cancer. They did not report on it until well after the Democratic primary. And that was spurred by the fact that Edwards' wife died. What a POS.

But what did the MSM do? Well they finally reported the story "briefly" while quickly changing the storyline to one Governor Mark Sanford (R). Mark Sanford had his email hacked and it revealed he was having an affair with some hot babe in Venezuela. That story of course was the lead for months on the MSM which ultimately brought Mark Sanford to admit his infidelity and resigned his post as governor. BUT! after all the smoke cleared and the makings of this story was revealed, S.C. voted him to serve as their representative in the House.

You know if Anthony Weiner was a Republican, his story would be the headline in much of the MSM.

All this doesn't take away of the underage being abused by those who are in some form of power whether church, Democrats or Republicans or anyone else. I hope they catch every SOB. As a mother and a grandmother if any of my children or grandchildren faced that kind of abuse of people in authority, I'm afraid I would be their worst enemy.
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Let us not forget the right honerable Larry Craig, soliciting sex in a MN restroom. He claimed he just had a "wide stance" and ended up finishing up his term.

Senator pleaded guilty, reportedly after bathroom stall incident - CNN.com

How about this model citizen? Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn, a pro-life advocate, who urged both his wife and his mistress to have abortions?

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/w...ons-for-ex-wife-and-mistress-is-running-again

Then there was David Vitter, who harshly criticized Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky Scandal, while himself frequenting prostitutes.

He then called for an ethics probe of his democratic collegues.

David Vitter Calls For Ethics Probe Of Colleagues After Being Targeted By Prostitution Amendment | The Huffington Post

I know there have been Democrats with their own skeletons, I'm just not aware of as many preaching against other people that do as they do. Hypocrites.
 
lurchadams said:
Let us not forget the right honerable Larry Craig, soliciting sex in a MN restroom. He claimed he just had a "wide stance" and ended up finishing up his term.

Senator pleaded guilty, reportedly after bathroom stall incident - CNN.com

How about this model citizen? Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn, a pro-life advocate, who urged both his wife and his mistress to have abortions?

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/w...ons-for-ex-wife-and-mistress-is-running-again

Then there was David Vitter, who harshly criticized Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky Scandal, while himself frequenting prostitutes.

He then called for an ethics probe of his democratic collegues.

David Vitter Calls For Ethics Probe Of Colleagues After Being Targeted By Prostitution Amendment | The Huffington Post

I know there have been Democrats with their own skeletons, I'm just not aware of as many preaching against other people that do as they do. Hypocrites.
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gonna B a lotta Repubbys gonna get the bad eye from ole Saint Peter when they die & hit the gates to da next world; oh my, bottled water time fo sure .........
 
lurchadams said:
I know there have been Democrats with their own skeletons, I'm just not aware of as many preaching against other people that do as they do. Hypocrites.
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You are right about hypocrites but there are enough to go around. On the right a politician always moves to the right and claims the very values of those they seek the votes from. Sometimes its a real sham and the people most disgusted are those who fell for their BS.
 
vesper said:
You are right about hypocrites but there are enough to go around. On the right a politician always moves to the right and claims the very values of those they seek the votes from. Sometimes its a real sham and the people most disgusted are those who fell for their BS.
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lurchadams said:
I know there have been Democrats with their own skeletons, I'm just not aware of as many preaching against other people that do as they do. Hypocrites.
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When you don't have much for standards it's hard to violate them. We did have John Edwards acting like Mr. Familyman but was cheating on his wife.
 
Fishking said:
When you don't have much for standards it's hard to violate them. We did have John Edwards acting like Mr. Familyman but was cheating on his wife.
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This is true. But he was finished right away. The ones I quoted either finished out their terms or were elected for another term.
 
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