Wis. mayor charged with plotting tryst with child

[cali]

1 hr 27 mins ago AP – Racine, Wis., Mayor Gary Becker walks into court behind his attorney, Patrick Cafferty on Thursday, Jan. … RACINE, Wis. – Prosecutors charged Racine Mayor Gary Becker with child-sex felonies Thursday and said he had gone to a mall to meet a 14-year-old girl he thought he had met during an online chat.

A state agent had posed as the girl, and the 51-year-old mayor was arrested Tuesday at the mall in suburban Milwaukee. District Attorney Michael Nieskes said during a news conference after a court hearing Thursday that investigators also found records of 1,800 sexually explicit chats on Becker's computer.

The charges include attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child under 16, possession of child pornography, child enticement, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, attempt to expose a child to harmful material and misconduct in office. At least one city official has called on Becker to resign.

Becker, who is married and has two children, waived his preliminary hearing in Racine County Circuit Court on Thursday afternoon. Racine County Circuit Court Commissioner Alice Rudebusch set his arraignment for Feb. 10.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090115/ap_on_re_us/mayor_arrested

Sorry, he's a dem not a repuke. (I can remember getting into it with people here during a spate of repuke sex crime stuff, that this has nothing to do with party.)

[CTyankee]

1. Get them out of our party right now!

Due process fine. But after that it's the end for them in our party if they are found culpable.

If we don't like it in the Repug party, we sure as hell can't like it in OUR party...