Right Wing, James O'Keefe-Style Nude Photo Sting Forces New Jersey Democrat to Resign

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Right Wing, James O'Keefe-Style Nude Photo Sting Forces New Jersey Democrat to Resign


Louis Magazzu, head of the Democratic party in Cumberland County, NJ, has resigned after nude cell phone self-portraits were leaked on the internet. Which sounds like a Weiner redux situation, but it's not: the photos were leaked by a woman Magazzu was involved in a years-long consensual relationship with, after it was revealed she was secretly working with "an avowed political enemy." Namely, a seemingly James O'Keefe-inspired "non-profit political watchdog group" that ran a blog called "Magazzu Watch."

Daily Mail:

The man who posted the photos, Carl B. Johnson of Millville, said that he was happy Magazzu was leaving office and that he would consider taking down the photos.

He said: 'He should have stepped down a long time ago for many reasons. His brand of politics is harmful to the entire political process. I'm sorry it had to happen this way.'

Mr Johnson said he started his website three years ago after a dispute with Magazzu over claims about property taxes.

He decided to post the photos because Magazzu had brought up Johnson's family and back child support payments during their squabble, he said.

'I started the blog three years ago after a nasty freeholder meeting...it started as a way to expose the dirty underbelly of Cumberland County politics.

While politicians sending nudie pics on social media is stupid, it is not an impeachable offense—we're all adults here, and moralizing about politicians' private sexuality puts us on shaky ground. But a blogger with a personal beef taking down a politician with a sting op—based on right wing, Christian moralizing—while not new, will never cease to shock. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/644249/right_wing%2C_james_o%27keefe-style_nude_photo_sting_forces_new_jersey_democrat_to_resign/

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Heh.

How many others will be sweating bullets now that Schlongate is in fashion.

[leveymg]

2. Is prying into and exposing everyone's sexual life going to become a regular part of politics?

I think those who employ these tactics of public exposure -- except in cases where the person "outed" has committed a crime, cases of hypocrisy, or the activities negatively impacted job performance -- should be shunned and expelled from office.

Punish and deter the beneficiaries of these sex scandals.

[saras]

5. As long as we react, it will. People WILL participate in their culture - we can judge or not

[EC]

3. Why does it seem more and more of these repub

activists and tps are tax dodgers and dead-beats, mad at someone (Dem) because they were caught and forced to pay?

[Aerows]

4. Note to all Democrats: Stop sending pictures of yourself naked

That's all I ask.

Oh, and the ones of you in compromising positions? Stop putting them the FUCK on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube for Christ's sake.

Politics 101, and now we have a second one that failed the course.

[saras]

6. Actually, stop having sex altogether - you can never tell where a camera may be...

and you shouldn't ever do anything anywhere that you wouldn't want publicized, right?

I'm not sure I WANT to belong to a political party that commits to sexual repression as a policy.

[Nye Bevan]

8. "Sexual repression" is a *bad* policy. "Don't tweet your erect cock" is a *good* policy (nt)

[Aerows]

10. Exactly my point

It's not rocket science. Don't tweet and facebook, etc. pictures of yourself in compromising positions unless you are prepared for the entire world to see them, because eventually, the wrong people will see them.

It has nothing to do with sexual repression, it has to do with common sense.

[Aerows]

11. It's not about sexual repression

it's about common sense. I'm not even a politician, and I don't have pictures of me engaged in sex acts on facebook, and nude photos floating around on twitter.

Are there pictures somewhere of me in a compromising position? Possibly, but I'm not stupid enough to be the one sending them out for God's sake.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. It is OK to do in a private email? Because that's what happened here

I presume this also means, to you, "stop taking naked pictures of yourself". Even when you've known the person you show them to for years, and have been separated from your wife for two. Because there's nothing stopping them scanning them and posting them on the internet.

basically, you are telling them to give up their sex life until the other person shows some commitment such as agreeing to get married. Or at least assume the person you'd like to have sex with is untrustworthy.

[Aerows]

13. You should always assume

that pictures of yourself, naked and otherwise, are going to be shown. That's the point of taking pictures. If you don't want your naked body ending up on the internet, don't take the pictures.

I'm not even a politician and I know this. There has got to be more to this story than just "naked pictures". I wouldn't resign if naked pictures of me surfaced (assuming I was a politician and dumb enough to hand out naked pictures of myself).

Not allowing people to take pictures of you in the nude is a little different than "giving up your sex life". If you are going to be in the public eye, people are going to want pictures of you, and if they are salacious, you might as well assume they will somehow or another get out.

[Nye Bevan]

7. Here's a good rule: before emailing or tweeting a picture of yourself:

ask yourself if it would be embarrassing if this picture became public. If the answer is "yes" then don't click "send"!

Following this rule would have saved several careers.

[nomb]

9. "If you don't want it printed, don't let it happen." - Motto of 'The Aspen Times', where they ..

Where they know a thing or two about bad publicity.

[cascadiance]

14. Maybe the only answer is to "out the outers"?...

Now this chick (and yes I will call her that, because she doesn't deserve my respect for the kind of slime she is!) might not care about whether we find nude photos of hers, or maybe she does.

But whatever way we can go after her (and perhaps others in her group) and find embarrassing photos of her and her group, then post those. Of course then arguably this sort of thing never stops.

Maybe at some point, everyone will tire of the inundation of everyone's nude photos of each other, and we'll all walk around nude without any hangups about it. Probably not in our lifetime though.

Pretty nasty "digital" world we're going in to.

If this is a Christian group, perhaps go after them with showing how they've done some things that aren't "too Christian", and out them that way, so that we don't continue the nude photo war...