This one kind of got by the national media, given the fact that they can only deal with one Republican gay sex scandal at a time:
An organizer for a Rudy Giuliani presidential event plans to step down amid revelations of his arrests for allegedly extorting an FSU student in a sex case and his conviction for dealing in stolen state computers.
Barry S. Edwards, 45, told The Miami Herald that the charges against him were ”old news” — and were ‘unfounded’ in the student sex case — but he nevertheless thought it would be best to withdraw from the Pinellas County Republican Party fundraiser because “I’m not relevant and I shouldn’t be the story.”
Edwards said he was not being paid for organizing the Sept. 7 Reagan Day dinner, and had no real connection to the campaign of Giuliani, who is to be the keynote speaker at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club in St. Petersburg.
The two criminal incidents involving Edwards were unrelated, and occurred within months of each other in 1998.
According to a Florida State University arrest affidavit: Edwards was first charged after a 19-year-old FSU political science intern claimed Edwards, then an adjunct professor, plied him with beers, trolled briefly for prostitutes, watched ”heterosexual” pornography and then exhorted him to masturbate in a game.
Masturbate in a game? Was it part of the game? Was it in lieu of a field goal or something?
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Kind of pointing out the obvious, but this isn’t even close to worthy of national media attention. This guy doesn’t even seem to have any substantial connection to any vaguely important political figure. A fund raiser organizer hardly equates with a Senator.
Left by Jake
September 5, 2007 at 12:08am