So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

May 14, 2005 |

Jim West

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash.com GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

This was a tough week for BuzzFlash, what with all the GOP Hypocrites in the news. There's the GOP Congressman from Pennsylvania accused of choking his mistress, the GOP anti-gay mayor accused of molesting boys when he was a scout master, and the prominent GOP appointee who is accused of forcibly sodomizing his ex-wife?

It can give you an ulcer keeping up with the moral depravity of the "holier-than-thou" Republicans.

But, like choosing from a row of port-o-lets, we had to pick one. This week's GOP Hypocrite is non-other than the anti-gay Mayor of Spokane, Republican Jim West.

According to Spokane's Spokesman-Review newspaper, "For a quarter century, the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust – as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician – to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men."

On top of that, West is accused of offering two openly gay men city jobs after he met them in a gay Internet chat room.

One guy says "he resigned from the city's Human Rights Commission in January after West 'hounded me for months, telling me I was cute and asking me out on dates.'" West offered him $300 cash if he'd swim naked with the Mayor. Another 18-year-old male says he had sex with West last June.

Meanwhile, West has announced he will take a temporary leave of absence so that he can clear things up. Oh, okay.

Mayor West, as far as BuzzFlash is concerned, things are quite clear already, and that clarity allows us to give you the title of BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Until next week, remember our motto at BuzzFlash.com: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.