Well, this makes no sense at all. A Minnesota state representative was caught having Rest Stop Hijinks with a 17-year-old boy — and the state representative is a Democrat? No no no, Democratic politicians get nabbed making sex on grown up ladies; it is 100 percent always true forever that if there is a live boy in the equation, the politician in question is a sad closet case Florida Republican or Baptist preacher! Minnesota just cannot keep its shit straight, we guess! Oh well, Democratic state Rep. Kerry Gauthier, who represents Duluth, told the Duluth News-Tribune “I think it’s a private matter and I don’t need to talk about it.” Everybody hear that? Sure, no problem!
The Northland News Center reports:
State Patrol will confirm that one witness approached a trooper around 11 at night on July 22nd to report an incident.
The State Patrol turned the investigation over to the Duluth Police Department. Police spokespeople say they are conducting a criminal investigation but they refuse to say why Gauthier was arrested.
However well placed sources today told the Northland’s NewsCenter, the incident involved a 17 year old boy with whom Gauthier was reportedly engaged in a sexual act.
Because the age of consent in Minnesota is 16 it is not illegal to have sex with someone who is 17. However it can be a misdemeanor to engage in sex acts in a public place.
Our sources say Representative Gauthier met the young man on Craig’s List and that police are investigating the potential that money changed hands which could make it a criminal matter.
So obviously it is time to shut down CraigsList. Your Wonket thinks we can all agree on that.
[NorthlandNewsCenter, via CityPages]
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Minnesota, land of 1000 statutory rapes.
Somebody alert Bathhouse Gollum.
He must be a transsexual.
Wait, people can meet prostitutes on CraigsList? We must shut it down now, along with all of the nation's alt weeklies!
And truck stops! And Las Vegas! And Trump Tower!
What about places where people prostitute themselves to corporations? We'd have to shut down the Ways and Means Committee and such.
And ACORN, since a fake pimp went into one of their offices once. Oh, too late.
Can't we form a undercover sting operation to investigate this for a few years first? I'm not a cop or in law enforcement, but wouldn't that make me the perfect volunteer for the job?
After the Tampa Stampede, of course.
So we can now say that toe-tappin' and wide-stancin' still work in Minnesota's restrooms.
"In a victory for bipartisanship"…………………
"The theory of Republican forbidden little boy love is a theory, and essentially the theory of Republican forbidden little boy love is not science — Wonkette made it up," Waide said.
I blame Michelle Bachman for turning him against women forever.
And Marcus for being so damn sexy hawt and yum yum yummy. Also. Too.
Not women,but maybe Chritianmingle.com…………………
DINO.
Let's see, what are the Fox News talking points going to be?
1. Democrats do it too, therefore Republicans don't do it.
2. The one Democrat should be punished much more severely than the dozens of Republicans who have been caught doing the same thing, because nothing else would be Fair and Balanced.
3. It's Obama's fault, because Obama's monogamous scandal-free marriage is causing the complete moral decline of America. Also, he's black.
4. The obvious solution is more tax cuts for the rich.
Wow, it's like I'm there watching Fox and Friends.
OH MY GOD MY BRAIN SHUT IT OFF
Come now, it's not like a Democratic Congressman in a scandal that involves no actual sex but just dick pics would be hounded out of Congress, while a Republican can hire hookers to force him to wear diapers and still get reelected.
Again. Can't tell if serious. We've gotten way too good at this shit..
Does Marcus "Pray away the gay" in Democrats too?
Gauthier is now just somebody that we used to know.
Fucking winning the day, bravo!
Now that song is stuck in my head again. Thanks.A.Lot.
Man, I fucking hate that Peter Gabriel b side!
Hmm. he's in Minnesota and he met the boy on Craig's List. So now we know what Larry Craig has been up to since that incident at the Minneapolis AIrport.
So, the 17 year old's name is Craig? Who else is on his list?
And is that his first or last name?
“I think it’s a private matter and I don’t need to talk about it.”
So Gauthier doesn't go for the dirty talk. OK then…
Seems like he took "how to answer interview questions" lessons from Ann Romney. Was he stroking the nose of Magic when he said that?
When a Democrat has rest-stop sex with a boy it's evidence of how debased liberal values are — but when a Republican has rest-stop sex with a boy it's because his standards are just so high not even he can live up to them. It's all in how you approach the ethics of the thing.
Also, Jesus forgives him.
If he's not a crazy homophobic, family 'values' jerk face, sounds like a personal problem. It's the hypocrisy that's so annoying.
EXACTLY.
Although it does seem he runs on a law-and-order platform, which invokes shades of Spitzer. His thing appears to be drugs though, so not the hypocrisy of a prostitute-prosecutor procuring prostitutes.
Look, if a prosecutor wants to procure a post-pubescent prossie for the purpose of peering at his penis, who are we to peg the poor public-serving pederast?
He's just reaching around the aisle.
One can only wonder if this story had a happy ending.
Come back tomorrow for more.
Here in California, 17 will get you twenty. Years.
Sounds FRENCH to me.
More like Greek Active.
Things like this didn't happen before Ryan was on the ticket.
He was probably imagining those dreamy blue zombie eyes while that young fella was servicing him.
You mean imagining Ryan?
Since he's not a member of the press, probably not.
Occupation: Social services : I'll say!
Hey, the act wasn't illegal. Just doing it in public. He's apparently unmarried, so it's nothing he'll have to explain to the missus.
But he might have to explain it to a mister, though. Ever think of that?
Bum bum BUUUUUUUUM.
A Blue Dog, prolly.
In Minnesota? Almost certainly.
Blue Ball Democrat?
Well, certainly a dog, anyway.
Cocktober is cumming early this year.
As it is a thousand degrees this morning, I am going to assume Cocktober will also be a part of the Indian Cummer that will surely overtake us all.
Cocktaugest?
He's invoking "the Romney":
1. He has been very transparent
2.There’s nothing he's hiding
3. No, he won't talk about it.
Arent these underaged sexual encounters supposed to take place in "quiet rooms"??
Quiet, except for the slurping.
If this politician was a democrat, Wonkette would've ignored this story.
Afterwards, the young man was dropped off at the playground,…so no harm, no foul.
The guy was just Polling his district.
And cramming his agenda down the throats of the young voters?
This is clearly Obama's fault.
But… if they close down craigslist where will I get free futons and pianos?
He's just reaching around for the youth vote.
“I think it’s a private matter and I don’t need to talk about it.”
See, this alone would've marked him as a Democrat. A Republican would've:
a) Denied, denied, and denied again;
b) Started finger pointing at the police, the boy, the rest stop security, the state Department of Transportation, and quite possibly Ray LaHood (because, hello, OBAMA);
c) Called a hastily-arranged news conference to confess that he was a sinner who needed to get "right with God" and/or "spend more time with his family to try and heal from this traumatic experience";
d) Checked himself into rehab; and
e) Booked an interview with Hannity in order to assail Obama for putting too much taxpayer money into law enforcement patrols of rest stops (and entrapping and arresting innocent citizens) when he really should be shoring up defense spending and creating jobs.
B.I.N.G.O.
The scary black man was intimidating and when he's nervous he needs to suck on something.
Is he at least a blue dog???
if there is a live boy in the equation, the politician in question is a sad closet case Florida Republican or Baptist preacher!
Don't forget the Catholic priests. Saw a story today about a priest who was arrested because they found him in just his underwear running after a 12-year-old in the street. Wonder what his excuse will be.
His excuse is he didn't have time to take off his underwear.
He's collecting for the Red Cross?
Is he gay-married?
Not now he isn't.
A rest stop? Seriously? People do this?
Honestly, I thought rest stop sex went out of style with Castro clones and handkerchief code.
Is it a public place if you hold the stall door shut with your free hand?
Just wondering…
Wait now, why would I know this? Oh, I see now.
Free hand?
Why are closeted gay men such cheap-asses? Would it kill them to rent a hotel room?
It might be the thrill of risking getting caught. So, a fail in this instance.
You'd think screwing a 17 year old boy would be enough of a thrill, on its own.
Kerry was my neighbor. He is gay and out of the closet.
I stand corrected.
"Let's just say it's someone I used to know," said Rep. Gauthier about the encounter.
OT: Why do the Republicans get all the dreamy-eyed dreamboats?
They own all the eye-ball manufacturing plants?
Closet Republican. Clearly.
Who knew democrats like sucking dick too.
I wonder how much money Larry Craig got for his list.
As far as I can tell, he's not married, and the sexytimes he was having appears perfectly legal (sex with a 17 year-old is almost never wise nor sane, even for other 17 year-olds, but still legal in like half the states). Is he a Blue Dog? Is he a marriage-defending Chick-Fil-A fan?
Without some hot, nasty hypocrisy, this "Endless Cummer" is just a disappointing, half-hearted hand-job.
I mean, who here hasn't had misdemeanor public sex?
I mean, who here hasn't had misdemeanor public sex?
You really expect us to answer that?
Define "misdemeanor public sex".
Ask the Border Patrol.
I mean, who here hasn't had misdemeanor public sex?
Memories~
Like the corners of my mind…
You mean, today?
The age of consent in Minnesota is SIXTEEN? Man, Minnesota must be home to some seriously depraved, immoral politicians.
Sixteen is the age of consent in most of the US, as well as Europe; for whatever reason most people think it's eighteen, maybe because that's the age of consent for porn, but that's not the case in most states.
Did he take the teenager across a border and get him a gay abortion? That's also totally legal.
As long as you leave him back at the swing set, of course.
Republicans would be pleased at this sudden display of bipartisanship if they were capable of feeling happiness.
Kerry was my neighbor when I lived in Duluth. He's gay and very open about it. Nice guy, too. It's not illegal since the boy was 17 but it is pretty poor judgment. WTF, Kerry? WTF????
Finally, the restrooms at MSP are getting a break.
Rebecca, I'm a little worried at the number of times you used "live" as an adjective in this post. It makes me worry what other scandals are in the Wonket pipeline, which sounds like a dark, dark place.
i found my current job on craigslist. and i do not usually have to take my clothes off.
"Usually" you say – do go on.
Sounds NORWEGIAN to us.
People should be suspicious in this state, because here are the names of all the rest stops on Minnesota Route 69, the main thoroughfare through the state:
1. Craig's Lair
2. Larry Craig Memorial Rest Stop
3. Bette Midler Bathhouse and Rest Stop
4. Mark Foley Rest Area
5. Peter Pan Rest Stop
6. Neverland Rest Area
7. Republican Rest Stop
8. Wide Stance Rest Area
9. Craig's List Appreciation Rest Stop
10. Twinkling Stars Rest Stop
10. Twinkling Stars Rest Stop
I threw just a little.
Well, it is certainly true that any sex involving a 17-year-old is a disgusting crime and is exactly the same as forcibly raping an 8-year-old.
The sad part of this story is that he will resign in shame, while a Rethuglican would make his ditz of a wife stand next to him while he apologized and said that he had a sex addiction that he was cured of by his Minister.
The Dems need some of those sex addiction curing ministers.
Call me crazy, or an apologist, but I smell a set-up.
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