GOP family values : mayor accused of molesting boys in 1970s

[RBHam]

Spokane mayor accused of molesting boys in 1970s

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Mayor James E. West, a former Republican legislative leader and opponent of gay rights, has been accused of molesting two boys decades ago and more recently offering a City Hall internship during an online chat to someone he thought was a young man but was in reality a computer investigator hired by a newspaper.

West on Thursday denied the molestation allegations, although he acknowledged visiting a gay Web site and "had relations with adult men. I don't deny that."

West, 54, said he intended to serve out the 1,150 days left in his term.

"I am a law-abiding citizen," West said during a brief news conference in which he did not take questions.

The Spokesman-Review in a copyright story in Thursday's editions had articles and photographs of two men who allege West molested them when they were in the Boy Scouts. Both men - Robert J. Galliher, 36, of Seattle, and Michael G. Grant Jr., 31, of Spokane - have criminal records because of drug problems.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Spokane%20Mayor

[Kikosexy2]

1. Typical....

Repubes...too much Man Date.

[Bluebear]

2. "I am a law-abiding citizen"

I wasn't but I am now?

[opihimoimoi]

3. First comes Denial, then Anger, then Compromise............

He displays all the symptoms......