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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.

One man, Robert J. Galliher, claims in a court deposition that Jim West molested him in the mid-1970s when he was a boy and West was a Spokane County sheriff’s
deputy and Boy Scout leader. A second man, Michael G. Grant Jr., also accuses
West of sexual abuse during the same era, including an incident at Camp Cowles,
a Boy Scout camp on Diamond Lake.

In addition, an investigation by The Spokesman-Review has revealed that 17 months after leaving the state Legislature, West has used the trappings of the mayor’s office to entice and influence young men he met on a gay Web site.
On one recent occasion, West offered a man he believed to be an 18-year-old – whom he met online at Gay.com – gifts, favors and a City Hall internship, Internet dialogues retained by the newspaper reveal. The 18-year-old was actually a forensic computer expert working for the newspaper.

Found this on Big Brass Blog, whom I discovered via Atrios.
Another hypocritical, anti-gay republican who is actually gay. sickening. According to Big Brass Blog, he threatened to veto domestic partnership benefits for city employees.

WTF? no really..what the fuck? How can a person be so hypocritical? Why not just come out of the friggen closet? Is being a Republican so great that you have to hide who you are? I so don’t understand this thinking. These people obviously have accepted the fact that they are gay if they are going out and finding partners in thier private lives. The fact that they do this tells me that they don’t find anything wrong with it. So why pretend to be something that you are not?

It makes me want to bang my head against a wall, I tell you!

But this guy is more than just a hypocritical republican, really. He is pure scum for molesting children. But that goes without saying, doesn’t it.