The Republicans have their Rep. Todd Akins who said that women's bodies can stop them becoming pregnant if they have been raped legitimately. Just about everyone has condemned him, from the GOP and Dem's sides.
Now, the Democrats have their village idiot. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Democratic leaders in Minnesota are demanding a state lawmaker withdraw
from his re-election bid after police claim he admitted to having sex
with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop.
While Rep. Kerry Gauthier, 56, will find no support from the
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party if he continues with his campaign, party
leaders stopped short Monday of asking him to immediately resign.
The first-term legislator wasn’t charged in the alleged July 22
encounter because the legal age of consent in Minnesota is 16 and no
money was exchanged, according to the St. Louis County attorney’s
office. Police say the two had oral sex behind a rest stop pavilion in
Duluth after the teen responded to Gauthier’s Craigslist ad looking for a
“no strings attached” sex.
Police reports made public last week say Gauthier came clean about the rest stop rendezvous....
Gauthier took office last year representing the Duluth area in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
DFL Party Chairman Ken Martin said in a statement Monday that Gauthier’s actions are “inexcusable.”
“No one in our party condones what he did, nor will we defend him in
this matter,” Martin said, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, who represents the DFL in
Minneapolis, said he told Gauthier not to seek re-election this fall.
“I am deeply disappointed with Rep. Kerry Gauthier’s conduct that has
been reported over the last several days,” Thissen said in a statement.
“The conduct was wrong and no one in the DFL House Caucus condones the
behavior.”
Gauthier, who was admitted to a hospital last week for shortness of breath after the scandal broke, didn’t comment Monday.
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