Accused GOP Pedophile Ties DA to Blackmail Plot

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Jeff Nielsen says ‘mentored’ seventh-grade boy sought apology, $100,000
By R. SCOTT MOXLEY
Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - 1:00 am
After his 2003 arrest for his relationship with the Westminster High School freshman, Nielsen came out of the closet, joined liberal-leaning organizations and has attempted to portray his legal woes as anti-gay discrimination. Last year, Nielsen managed to get Orange County Register reporter Richard Chang to boost his public image with a story that hailed his concern for—you can’t make this stuff up—kittens made homeless by the Katrina disaster in Louisiana. That story did not mention the sexual predator charges. (Ken Brusic’s Register, often a shameless if effective arm of the local Republican Party, has refused to tell its readers about Nielsen’s arrest.)

“It’s hard to believe nothing has happened to Jeff after all that he’s done,” John Doe #2 told the Weekly during a recent telephone interview. “He’s free and he still has his license.”

Nielsen—longtime close pals with Rohrabacher (a former Register employee) as well as California Republican bigwigs Scott Baugh and Tom Fuentes—has declined to cooperate with police since his July 2003 arrest by Westminster police detective Scott Storey. Storey says the then-33-year-old Nielsen committed more than a half dozen felonies while repeatedly using a 14-year-old boy as a sex partner. He’d met the boy in an online gay chat room and, according to law enforcement reports, led the student to believe that they were much closer in age. Police also believe that Nielsen took the boy to dinner, sent him love letters and gave him flowers.

An investigation later uncovered more than 400 pictures of man-boy sex on Nielsen’s home and office computers. At the time of his arrest, Nielsen worked as a lawyer at Manatt, Phelps & Philips, a job he obtained from his benefactor Baugh, current chairman of the Orange County Republican Party and a man who doubles as a $250,000-a-year lobbyist for the county of Orange. Nielsen entered USC law school in 1997 thanks to character references by Rohrabacher and Michael J. Schroeder, top political strategist to DA Rackauckas. In a recent interview with the Weekly, Rackauckas said he was baffled and angered that Nielsen had avoided a trial for so long.
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/accused-gop-pedophile-ties-da-to-blackmail-plot/25948/

Any ties to the Grope?

[Ecumenist]

1. Good grief!!! What the hell are these people?

Is pedophilia something endemic in the psychoological makeup of the neocon mind? Pathology in regards to anything sexual seems to be par for the course...

[kestrel91316]

5. I think it has to do with their authoritarian mindset: something most

Dems appear to lack.

[Erika]

2. This is truly sick

There has been nothing peaceful and Christian from the GOP in decades, and I believe that lack is coming to fruition.

[madmusic]

3. Mm, just saw an Arnie campaign ad on predators, too

Orange County, Red County

As someone who grew up durng the height of the Cold War, I still can't get used to the fact that "red" is now supposed to mean conservative, with the default that blue means leftist, all because of some network television graphics on Election Night. Be that as it may, a new, mostly online publication has sprung up in Orange County, and it's calling itself RedCounty.com. It includes a blog but is more than a blog, sort of a micro-local collection of essays and links about politics, life and culture in Orange County. Among the contributors are some names folks in the Capitol will recognize: Curt Pringle, John Campbell, Scott Baugh and Matt Cunningham, whose OC Blog has been folded into theis new product. Hugh Hewitt is promoting it heavily.

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/

[madmusic]

4. Some Conservative Republicans Circle The Wagon For Schwarzenshriver

The FlashReport this morning has a link at the top of the news section to a blog post by John Gizzi, the political reporter for Human Events Weekly. In it are some interesting quotes from Scott Baugh, who, of course, offers the obligatory support for the Party frontrunner, presumptive nominee, and incumbent.

As he was leaving for Florida, the Republican chairman of the largest GOP county in America weighed in for Schwarzenegger.

“On the balance, Arnold’s been a great governor,” Scott Baugh, former GOP state legislator and now chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, told me. “His first act was cutting $4 billion from the budget. His second act, the repeal of the car tax, resulted in $12 billion back to the taxpayers. Worker’s compensation claims have dropped 40%. That sends a huge signal to business that California is serious about welcoming new jobs.”

In Baugh’s words, “There are only so many bullets you can fire.” He was referring to four statewide initiatives the governor backed last year that included teacher tenure (granting public school teachers tenure after five years instead of two); “Paycheck Protection” that would have required annual consent of public sector union employees for their dues could be used for political purposes; a “live within our means” measure to limit spending and an overhaul of the redistricting process, taking the power to draw lines for state legislators from lawmakers themselves and turning it over to a panel of retired judges. All four measures lost after a campaign by the unions, its price tag estimated at $320milion, that focused on Schwarzenegger and which the “Governator” did not react to for months. As former State GOP Chairman Shawn Steel told me, “Mother Theresa would have had high negatives after an assault like that.”

Baugh does not believe for a minute that Schwarzenegger will buy into the oil tax because “he made it very clear from the start that we are not under-taxed.”

Like other conservatives, Baugh hopes that a Schwarzenegger re-election this fall will give the state GOP what he calls “a bench,a conservative bench—Tom McClintock as lieutenant governor and Chuck Poochigian as attorney general.” Both candidates are strong conservatives across-the-board and rated better than even chances to emerge triumphant over far-left Democratic foes this November.

AND

“It would be great if Arnold were a conservative,” said Scott Baugh, “Let’s say he’s a moderate who has done some conservative things.”

Caution, conservative rag: http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/2006/06/some_conservati.html

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Well, he was only 33.

It was obviously just a youthful indiscretion. All will be redeemed once he declares himself saved by Jesus.