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| McCain’s Florida co-chair arrested– you won’t believe why
by Arlen Parsa
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Here’s a question for you: How much is John McCain’s cash-strapped campaign paying its state co-chairs?
Whatever their salary is, it clearly isn’t enough. McCain’s Florida co-chair Bob Allen (also a Republican state Representative) was arrested yesterday after he was caught offering a blowjob for 20 dollars in a public rest room:
Allen was considered to be acting suspicious by police as he entered and exited the men’s room three times, according to a Titusville Police report. Moments later, he approached the plainclothes officer and offered to perform oral sex for $20, police said.
Allen faces second degree misdemeanor charges. A seven-year House veteran, the term-limited Allen had been considered a likely Senate candidate next year. He also had been named a co-chairman last spring of Arizona Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign team in Florida.
Police said they realized Allen was a public figure after the arrest.
Hat tip- Marc.
Update: Ironically, this comes just as Fort Lauderdale’s conservative mayor is urging constituents to support his plan to pay $250,000 each for new automated public restrooms which he says would eliminate the apparently all-too-common horrors of restroom-sex:
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle says his city has a problem with “homosexual activity” in public restrooms and he has a plan to stop it – robotic toilets that allow occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door automatically opens.
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Fort Lauderdale police officials said male sex in public restrooms is no longer a problem, but Naugle insists the practice persists and has used recent public meetings and e-mails to constituents to raise the issue.Public restrooms are pickup places for “homosexuals. … They’re engaging in sex, anonymous sex, illegal sex,” he said.
Perhaps Naugle, a former Bush 2000 Florida co-chair, has met Mr Allen.
Update 2: In case folks were wondering, Allen is indeed married, with one daughter. Also, you can watch a local news video report about Allen’s arrest here.
This is another obvious case of a solution looking for a problem (like the Flag Desecration Amendment). Not only would Naugle make life difficult for some gays, but he’d make it hell for the constipated (a condition from which his brain seems to be suffering), whether gay or straight.
If he wants to be draconian about it, he could simply call for the removal of the cubicle doors in men’s restrooms. Some years ago, I noted that the men’s room in the Sears store in Cupertino, CA, had no cubicle doors. The men’s room under Union Square in San Francisco didn’t even have cubicle walls. In both cases, feeling some urgency and not wanting the embarrassment of an audience, I sought nearby alternatives. In the latter case, that was the comparatively luxurious men’s room in the nearby Hyatt Hotel. As I grow older (over 71 now), I seek opportunities to go (if possible, before I leave the house) before the call of nature becomes urgent.
If he gets his way with the automatic toilets, perhaps he should be the inaugural user, especially if someone can manage to slip a laxative into his food shortly before the event.
No wonder his campaign is almost out of cash - this must have to the hardest way to collect donations!
$250,000 fine…
He’d have to work for a long time at $20 per BJ.
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