SESSO E POLITICA IN AMERICA

(Da Wikipedia)

Salvo rare eccezioni, ogni protagonista di queste storie ha avuto la propria carriera politica distrutta

1999–2008 federal sex scandals
 John Edwards Senator (D-NC) Ran for the presidential nomination against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton positioning himself as an honest, family values candidate. This position was seriously undercut when he admitted to an affair with Rielle Hunter. (2008)
 Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH) accused of an affair with staffer Jennifer Laptook, whom he subsequently married.(2003)
 Jack Ryan (R-IL) U.S. Senate candidate – Sex scandal became public during divorce proceedings with Jeri Ryan. Ms. Ryan is better known as 7 of 9 on Star Trek (2004)
 Ed Schrock (R-VA) – Alleged to have run a personal column for men wanting to meet other men (2004)
 Washingtonienne Staffer Jessica Cutler for Senator Michael DeWine (R), published a short-lived blog called Washingtonienne describing her life in D.C. and graphic details (and prices) of her sex life which included some highly placed Bush officials. (2004)
 Don Sherwood (R-PA) – Extramarital affair with accusations of abuse (2004)
 Roosevelt Dobbins (D-AR) – pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment for fondling a teenager (2005)
 Gary Condit (D-CA) Condit’s affair with 23 year old intern Chandra Levy (2001) was exposed after Levy disappeared. Her body was found a year later. In 2008 an ex-felon was charged with her murder. (2009)
 Jeff Gannon (R) A.K.A. James Dale Guckert A.K.A. “Bulldog,” was admitted to White House press conferences as a journalist without proper vetting and allowed to ask such sympathetic questions that The Daily Show referred to him as “Chip Rightwingenstein of the Bush Agenda.” Records show he was admitted to the White House hundreds of times even when there were no press conferences. He later admitted to being a $200/day prostitute. (2005)
 Mark Foley (R-FL) – accused of sending sexually explicit instant messages to an underage male congressional pages. He was later cleared of any wrongdoing but resigned anyway. (2006)
 Richard Curtis (R-WA) – blackmailed and outed by a male prostitute after he didn’t reveal his gay lifestyle (2007)
 Bob Allen (R-FL) – busted for solicitation of a police officer in public men’s room, claimed he did it out of a racist panic (2007)
 D.C. Madam Scandal; Head of a prostitution ring centering around Deborah Jeane Palfrey (2007)
 David Vitter (R-LA) – discovered in the numbers book of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey (2007)
 Randall L. Tobias (R) Deputy Secretary of State, the ‘Aids Czar’ who stated that condoms were not effective, resigned April 27, 2007 after confirming he had been a customer of the DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
 Glenn Murphy Jr. (R) – 33 year-old president of the Young Republican National Federation, under investigation for sexual assault of a sleeping 22 year-old man (2007)
 Larry Craig (R-ID) – pled guilty to disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport men’s room in June, after having been arrested on a charge of lewd conduct (2007)
 Vito Fossella (R-NY) – Arrested for drunk driving, Fossella admitted to having an affair with Laura Fay, with whom he has a three-year-old daughter. He is currently married to Mary Patricia née Rowan with whom he also has three children (2008)
 Tim Mahoney (D-FL) – Accepted seat after resignation of Mark Foley for sexual harassment. Mahoney admitted to an affair with his congressional aide and later campaign staffer Patricia Allen. When Allen threatened to sue for sexual harassment Mahoney paid her $122,000. Mahoney is also under FBI investigation for preferential treatment he may have given to Martin County in the amount of $3.4 million in hurricane funds. Mahoney was seeking re-election, but lost. (2008) race.[14]
[edit]1999–2008 state and local sex scandals
 Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Governor of California, Admitted to inappropriate conduct with women when he was an actor and professional bodybuilder “on rowdy movie sets” (2004)
 Kevin Shelley (D) Secretary of State of California, a number of former staffers and other associates accused Shelley of abusive behavior, including sexually explicit gestures and remarks (2005)
 Gavin Newsom (D) Mayor of San Francisco, California, accused of extramarital affair with wife of campaign manager and former deputy chief-of-staff Alex Tourk (2007)
 Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Mayor of Los Angeles, California, extramarital affair (2004) with Spanish-language television reporter Mirthala Salinas (2007)
 John Burton (D) former California Senate Pro Tempore – accused of sexual harassment by a female employee at his charity organization (2008)
 Paul J. Morrison (D) Attorney General of Kansas, after an extramarital affair with an office administrator, he was charged with sexual harassment and claims that he pressured her to obtain sensitive information about district attorney Phill Kline and several other investigations at the district attorney’s office. He resigned January 31, 2008
 Paul Patton (D) Governor of Kentucky, Became public after a former mistress alleged retaliation against her business (2002)
 Kwame Kilpatrick (D) Detroit Mayor, accused of extramarital affair with his Chief-of-Staff, Christine Beatty. Racy text messages between them uncovered by the press contradicted their sworn denials of an affair. Also alleged to have stayed at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC with a woman named Carmen Slowsky, who was not his wife (2008)
 Jim McGreevey (D) Governor of New Jersey, admitted that he had an extramarital affair with the man he appointed as homeland security advisor. When threatened with a lawsuit he admitted his homosexuality and resigned in (2004)
 Eliot Spitzer (D) Governor of New York used the Emperors Club VIP prostitution service to meet $1000/ night hookers. No charges were filed since no public funds were used, though he resigned anyway. (2008)
 Marc Dann (D) Attorney General of Ohio, after sexual harassment charges were brought against staffers Leo Jennings and Anthony Gutierrez, Dann admitted he too had an affair with a staff member. Resigned May 14, 2008
 Sam Adams (D) Mayor of Portland, Oregon, admitted lying about a sexual relationship with an 18 year-old male intern (January 2009)
 Jim West (R) Mayor of Spokane, WA – faced charges of child molestation and misuse of his office for sexual favors with young men (2005)
 Gary Becker (D) Mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, charged with five child-sex felonies after being arrested by the FBI at a mall trying to meet a 14 yr old girl (January 16, 2009). This man, the Democrat Mayor of Racine, is not to be confused with Gary Becker, the Nobel laureate.
 Bob Wise (D) Governor of West Virginia, affair with state employee (2003)
[edit]1989-1998
 Arlan Stangeland (R-MN) found to have made hundreds of phone calls to a female lobbyist. Though he denied any romantic involvement, he lost re-election. (1990)
 Chuck Robb Senator (D-VA) Accused of an affair with Miss Virginia USA Tai Collins which he denied (1991)
 Clarence Thomas (R) Supreme Court nominee accused by Anita Hill of sexual harassment (1991)
 Robert Packwood Senator (R-OR) was forced to resign his office when his vehement denials of any wrongdoing (after 29 women came forward with claims of sexual harassment, abuse, and assaults) were eventually contradicted by his own lurid diaries boasting of his sexual conquests. (1995)
 Mel Reynolds (D-IL) indicted for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse for a relationship with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer (1994.) He was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography (1995)
 Bob Barr (R-GA) sexual hypocrisy alleged by Larry Flynt (1998)
 Bill Clinton President (D-AR) intern Monica Lewinsky scandal allegedly had oral sex with Clinton leading him to famously declare on TV on January 26, 1998 that “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” The scandal led to impeachment by the House for perjury, but he was acquitted by the Senate by 10 votes (1998)
 Newt Gingrich Speaker of the House of Representatives (R-GA) admitted to having an affair with (his current wife, Callista Bisek, his third) while still married to his second wife in the late 1990s. This was at the same time he was leading the Congressional investigation of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
 Ken Calvert (R-CA) arrested for soliciting a prostitute for oral sex in his car (1993)
[edit]1979-1988
 Robert Bauman (R-MD) – charged with attempting to solicit sex from a 16-year-old male prostitute (1980)
 Jon Hinson (R-MS) charged with attempted oral sodomy of a male Library of Congress employee (1981)
 Thomas Evans (R-DE) Went golfing in FL with lobbyist and later nude modelPaula Parkinson Lost 1982 re-election bid.(1980)
 John G. Schmitz (R-CA) – extramarital affair resulting in offspring (1982)
 Gerry Studds (D-MA) and Dan Crane (R-IL) are censured July 20, 1983 in Congressional Page sex scandal (1983)
 Gary Hart Senator (D-CO) – Seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 1988 Hart was photographed with model Donna Rice on a boat named ‘Monkey Business’ during a trip to the Bahamas. His popularity plummeted and he soon dropped out.(1987)
 Ernie Konnyu (R-CA) – sexual harassment complaints by two female staffers (1987)
 Brock Adams (D-WA) eight women accused Adams of committing various acts of sexual misconduct, ranging from sexual harassment to rape (1988)
 Richard Garner (R-Candidate CA) admitted to molesting his daughters
 Paul Ingram (R-WA) Paul Ingram accused by his daughters of sexual abuse, by at least one daughter of satanic ritual abuse [1], and later accused by his son in 1988.
 Jim Bates (D-CA) made sexual advances toward female staffers (1988)
 Gus Savage (D-IL) accused of trying to force himself on a female Peace Corps worker in Zaire. No action was taken after he apologized to her (1989)
 Barney Frank (D-MA) reprimanded by the House when Steve Gobie, a male escort whom Frank met after hiring him through a personal advertisement, claimed to have conducted an escort service from Frank’s apartment when he was not at home (1989)
 Donald “Buz” Lukens (R-OH) – accused of having sexual relations with a 16 year-old girl (1989) and was accused of fondling a woman in an elevator (1990)
[edit]1970-1979
 Neil Goldschmidt (D-OR) Mayor of Portland, Admitted to an affair with a 14 yr old girl in the 1970s, which became public May 6, 2004
 Wilbur Mills (D-AR) Found intoxicated with stripper Fanne Foxe. He was re-elected anyway, though after he gave an intoxicated press conference from Foxe’s burlesque house dressing room, he resigned.(1974)
 Wayne Hays (D-OH) – Elizabeth Ray scandal (1976)
 John Young (D-TX) – a former female staffer said that she received a pay raise after giving in to Young’s sexual advances (1976)
 Allan Howe (D-UT) – arrested for soliciting two police officers posing as prostitutes (1976)
 Fred Richmond (D-NY) – charged with soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy (1978)
[edit]1900–1969
 Eugene Schmitz Mayor and Abe Ruef convicted of corruption in San Francisco (1907)
 Newport Sex Scandal (1919) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated an investigation into allegations of “immoral conduct” (homosexuality) at the Naval base in Newport, RI; the investigators were also accused of homosexuality (1919)
 President Warren Harding (R) -Carrie Phillips-Nan Britton mistresses and pay-offs (1921-1923)
 Strom Thurmond Senator (R-SC) – Had sex with 15 year old African American resulting in child
 Walter Jenkins (D) top aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson – caught in a gay liaison with a Hungarian man in a YMCA bathroom (1964)
[edit]1776–1899
 Grover Cleveland President (D) During the election of 1884 Cleveland, a bachelor, paid child support to Maria Crofts Halpin even though the child may not have been his. The controversy raised the cry, “Ma, ma, where’s my pa?” After he won, it was answered by, “Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha!” (1884)
 James Buchanan President (D) and future Vice President William Rufus King (D-NC) were the subject of scandalous gossip (alleging a homosexual affair) in Washington, D.C. for many years. Andrew Jackson referred to them as Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy. (1850’s)
 Petticoat Affair or Eaton AffairMargaret “Peggy” O’Neale later Margaret O’Neill Eaton, whose husband was alleged to have been driven to suicide because of her affair with Jackson’s Secretary of War, John Henry Eaton. (1831)
 Alexander Hamilton-Maria Reynolds affair (1796)