Kristen at MySpace.com

There’s nothing like a sex scandal to get the American media’s juices flowing.

So another flawed politician is gone with the announcement that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer had sex with a high priced priced prostitute in a Washington hotel.

I wasn’t going to say much about this scandal until the New York Times revealed this morning that according to the mysterious Kristen’s MySpace page, she is an aspiring blues singer. Being a sucker for aspiring blues singers myself as a drummer who has often sat in on blues jams in places like New Orleans, I can’t resist this story.

She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.

Kristen, the high-priced prostitute described in a federal affidavit as having a Feb. 13 rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor rental in an upscale apartment building in the Flatiron district. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court as a witness in the case against four people charged with operating the prostitution ring, Emperor’s Club V.I.P. In a series of telephone interviews on Tuesday night, she said she had slept very little over the past week due to the stress from the case.

“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” the woman said as she told the tiniest tidbits of her story. Born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre, she spoke softly and with good humor as she added with significant understatement: “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.”

For an Aspiring Singer, a Harsher Spotlight

Now if we could just get all those gay bashing Log Cabin Republicans in Congress to resign, like Larry Craig and Mark Foley, we could get on with the business of trying the real criminals in Washington, the current occupants of the White House. We are still waiting on the other shoe to drop there.

Maybe we could get some impeachment action going on if someone could get their dirty hands on that video of gay male prostitute Jeff Gannon doing it with White House press aides in the Lincoln Bedroom - and who knows who watching, like Georgie and Condi in the hottub.

While we are waiting to find out if the United States House of Representatives is going to do anything else to try to reach a compromise with the Senate and the Prez on legislation authorizing spying on us and letting the telecom giants off the legal hook, this might be a good time to remind the good people of Alabama, the South and America that there is a such thing as a gay Republican.

Not that there is anything inherently wrong with being gay, or Republican. But since it is the height of hypocrisy for a gay Republican to bash other gays in public, when one of them is outed, we should take note of it just for enlightenment purposes.

I promise you, dear readers, that I have had a number of conversations with poor people in Alabama who reacted with shock and awe upon finding out that there was a such thing as a gay Republican, and that they even had an official caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington called the Log Cabin Republicans.

Now I don’t know how they came up with that name, but I’m told it might have something to do with the secret liaisons that have come to be associated with the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, going back to the days when gay male prostitute Jeff Gannon was showing up daily at the White House press briefings but not always logging out at the end of the day.

Jeff Gannon: Blogger? Journalist?

Since the good people of Alabama tend to live in a land of dark matter when it comes to information, I’m sure this will still come as a shock to some. But since you will not see this story covered on your local happy news network, you should know that the Senate Ethics Committee slapped Idaho Sen. Larry Craig on the wrist on Wednesday for acting improperly in connection with a men’s room sex sting last year, as the AP reported it yesterday.

In a letter to the Republican senator say his actions brought discredit on the Senate, the ethics panel said Craig’s attempt to withdraw his guilty plea after his June arrest at a Minneapolis airport was an effort to evade legal consequences of his own actions.

Six members of committee - three Democrats and three Republicans - told Craig they believed he “committed the offense to which you pled guilty” and that “you entered your plea knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently.”

Craig, a three-term Republican, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in August after he was accused of soliciting gay sex in a bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in June.

After the matter became public, Craig tried to withdraw his plea. But a judge in Minnesota refused, saying Craig’s plea “was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and … supported by the evidence.” Craig has appealed that ruling to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

The ethics panel took no further action against Craig. Read: Slap on the wrist.

Hey, now that it’s all over, and it’s Valentines Day, Bush should invite Craig over to the White House for a party in the Lincoln Bedroom and get up a big reunion with Gannon and former White House spokesmen little Scotty McClellan and Arie Fleischer. I’m sure Condi would want to be on hand to watch too, and drugged-up first lady Laura will bring the wine and roses.

Kitty Kelly could be there to do the tell-all. And of course since Senator John McCain will need all the gay Republican votes he can get to beat Senator Barack Obama in the race for the White House this year, he could be on hand to officiate the proceedings and make sure the party doesn’t get out of hand, or, er mouth.

Sorry. I shouldn’t have mentioned that at lunch time I know, but I just couldn’t help myself. Now back to the coffee … and C-SPAN watch.

Excuse me for laughing, y’all, but I just love this story…. Let’s keep it going for awhile…

Ethics Committee Continues Review of Convicted Gay Congressman Larry Craig

Craig Reconsiders Decision to Resign

For the record, we just got confirmation of a certain meeting to take place in Washington, D.C., Sept. 14 at about 12:30 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building. Jill Simpson goes to Washington. Stay tuned…

If it’s Wednesday afternoon, it’s Yuengling Time in LocustForkland, where the river runs cold and true, the Great Blue Herons dance like Elvis and the people like to shoot the breeze (and they are usually right).

Throw in a little Dixie Chicks (The Long Way Home) on the drums, a certain bit of Neil Young (Alabama), some Derek Trucks … the first solo album.

Summer is almost over. A trip is in the offing. Long live fall…

There are interesting and potentially explosive new developments breaking today concerning gay Republican hypocrites in Washington and elsewhere.

We were right in the middle of investigating claims that the real reason Bush’s chief political aide Karl Rove resigned from the White House was that he is the real bisexual lover of the gay male prostitute who was run off from the White House press room back in the spring of 2005, namely James Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon of Gannongate and JeffGannon.com.

But then Idaho Sen. Larry Craig held a press conference covered live on CNN today in which he denied being gay, in spite of pleading guilty to lewd conduct in a men’s room at the Minneapolis airport.

U.S. Senator Gets Flushed

Senate Republican leaders in Washington called for an ethics committee review into his involvement in a police sting operation this summer in the airport men’s room, after the private group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint with the ethics committee seeking an investigation into whether Craig violated Senate rules by engaging in disorderly conduct.

Sen. Craig: ‘I Am Not Gay’

The controversy errupted earlier today on the media Website at the Poynter Institute.

From Hearsay to Headline: Tracking the Larry Craig Coverage

And the D.C. blogger Wonkette has been covering this story and others, related to a triple murder suicide of more gay Republicans in Florida, including one who worked in the attorney general campaign of Troy King of Alabama.

Even the Alabama Associated Press had a story on this today, although they do not mention all the gay Republican connections.

Slain Florida Political Consultant Worked on Alabama Campaigns

To read the most about it, CrimeBlog.US is covering it in great depth.

The original story on Jeff Gannon was broken on Feb. 2, 2005 on America blog in a post called A man called Jeff.

Since the mainstream, corporate press and the broadcast media would not cover this story, and since the Bush royal family has a long history of being able to keep this stuff quiet either by killing people or paying them off, there was no real way to get to the bottom of the story - until now, perhaps.

Now that Craig has gone on national TV and breached the door to this sort of controversy, maybe there are other similar controversies that now may be investigated.

In the Locust Fork Journal archives on Gannongate, some of the links are broken. But a thorough check of back computer files turned up the orginal Secret Service logs that clearly show Gannon spent several nights in the White House. Knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that gay sex was going on in the White House, the only real questions left that remained unanswered were: Who was he having sex with? And in which bedroom?

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More on George W. Bush’s “Sanctity of Marriage” gay marriage constitutional ban, from investigative reporter Wayne Madsen.

I tried to warn people about this as long ago as April 1, 2005, in an archive now referred to as Gannongate. Cover your children’s eyes when reading this. It contains explicit sexual content.

George W. Bush’s marital problems have just taken another turn for the worse. Madsen first reported June 2 that Bush had an affiar with Condi and Laura moved to the Mayflower Hotel.

Then, on June 4, he reported that Bush has not only engaged in an extra-marital affair with a member of the opposite sex who is also a senior member of his Cabinet, but also a member of the same sex.

In his Wayne Madsen Report online, he says he received the following release from Leola McConnell, a Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada and a former professional dominatrix.

On President Bush’s speech to the nation Monday: “If he doesn’t say he’s a gay American or at the least a bisexual one then he shouldn’t be making one at all,” McConnell said. “And the notion that it would be in regards to writing bigotry into our nation’s Constitution is reprehensible.

“Too bad it isn’t me doing the rebuttal because in 1984, I watched him perform (with the enthusiasm of homosexual male who had done this many times before) a homosexual act on another man, namely Victor Ashe. Victor Ashe is the current Ambassador to the nation of Poland (former Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn.) who should also come out like former Governor McGreevey of New Jersey and admit to being a gay American.

“Other homo-erotic acts were also performed by then private citizen George Bush because I performed one of them on him personally,” she said.

“I am the woman this website bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com speaks of that has been posted on the (N)et nearly two years now. None of this would be the business of anyone but President Bush’s little ruse to save his failed presidency by using DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] to divide Americans one from the other has to be exposed as the act of a desperate closeted homosexual man.

“The only crime in being GLBT is in the hiding. The President needs to come clean with the American people about his own past sexual behavior before he tries to besmirch the humanity of people in search of sincerely committing to the same bonds of matrimony he’s afforded. He violated his own vows of monogamy having a homosexual affair with a long time family friend of whom his wife had no knowledge. His hypocrisy seems to know no bounds.

“I had planned to run for governor of Nevada without going into any of this but his planned nationally televised address to the nation makes it necessary for me to address his attempt at division in as public a way as he picked to try this Bushification of reality regarding same sex marriages.”

Madsen adds: The editor was asked what sort of relationship George W. Bush could be having with Condoleezza Rice? My reply was that it was likely aberrant and involved something like the relationship King Edward VIII had with Wallis Simpson, who was rumored to have had androgen insensitivity syndrome.

Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris). Madsen is the author of Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999, co-author of America’s Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II, and the forthcoming Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops and Brass Plates. Madsen is also the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law.

Madsen is a former U.S. Naval officer who was assigned to the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration. He also has some twenty years experience in computer security and data privacy. He has also worked for the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.

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