Email rendezvous entangles GOP state representative

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This is just bizarre.

"Emails shared with The Indianapolis Star suggest that state Rep. Phillip Hinkle – responding to a local posting on Craigslist – offered a young man $80 plus tip to spend time with him Saturday night at the JW Marriott hotel. The emails, sent from Hinkle’s publicly listed personal address, ask the young man for “a couple hours of your time tonight” and offer him cash up front, with a tip of up to $50 or $60 “for a really good time.”

The email exchange is in response to the Craigslist posting in which the young man – who lists his age as 20 in the ad but says he is 18 years old – says, “I need a sugga daddy.”

The young man told The Star that they met, but that he tried to leave after the man told him he was a state lawmaker. He said the lawmaker at first told him he could not leave, grabbed him in the rear, exposed himself to the young man and then later gave him an iPad, BlackBerry cellphone and $100 cash to keep quiet. When contacted by The Star about the emails, Hinkle, a Republican who represents portions of Pike and Wayne townships, did not contest the emails but said, “I am aware of a shakedown taking place.”

indystar.com/article/20110812/LOCAL1804/108120333/Email-rendezvous-entangles-state-Rep-Phillip-Hinkle?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|LOCAL

The sad part is that Hinkle attends Catholic church in Indy.
 
As a person who works in Information Technology, a publicly visible email address can be so easily faked it’s not funny.

Think of all the spam you get where the sender is you.

This is probably another attempt to discredit someone through false accusations.

If it end up being false, I wonder if spreading it would be a sin against the 8th commandment.
 
What’s with the GOP bashing? Does this ease the guilty conscience of those pseudo-Catholics who voted for Obama? Democrats Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, and Nancy Pelosi, all confirmed baby-killers (pro-abortion), are (or were) supposed to be Catholics.
 
Haven’t they figured out e-mail, texting, cellphone calls, &c, &c, are all sure ways to get caught?

You might as well behave yourself.
 
Indiana editorials are urging the representative to resign. There’s just no excuse for agreeing to meet up with someone in a motel.
 
Beau_Ouiville said:
This is just bizarre.

"Emails shared with The Indianapolis Star suggest that state Rep. Phillip Hinkle – responding to a local posting on Craigslist – offered a young man $80 plus tip to spend time with him Saturday night at the JW Marriott hotel. The emails, sent from Hinkle’s publicly listed personal address, ask the young man for “a couple hours of your time tonight” and offer him cash up front, with a tip of up to $50 or $60 “for a really good time.”

The email exchange is in response to the Craigslist posting in which the young man – who lists his age as 20 in the ad but says he is 18 years old – says, “I need a sugga daddy.”

The young man told The Star that they met, but that he tried to leave after the man told him he was a state lawmaker. He said the lawmaker at first told him he could not leave, grabbed him in the rear, exposed himself to the young man and then later gave him an iPad, BlackBerry cellphone and $100 cash to keep quiet. When contacted by The Star about the emails, Hinkle, a Republican who represents portions of Pike and Wayne townships, did not contest the emails but said, “I am aware of a shakedown taking place.”

indystar.com/article/20110812/LOCAL1804/108120333/Email-rendezvous-entangles-state-Rep-Phillip-Hinkle?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|LOCAL

The sad part is that Hinkle attends Catholic church in Indy.
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“I’m trying to get to the bottom of everything involved,” Nugent (Hinkle’s lawyer) said…er…
 
of course, who could forget wienergate??!!! scandal is not exlusive to the GOP.
let’s see- there is john edwards, bill clinton, elliot spitz to name a few.
 
7_Sorrows said:
of course, who could forget wienergate??!!! scandal is not exlusive to the GOP.
let’s see- there is john edwards, bill clinton, elliot spitz to name a few.
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You forgot the Granddaddy of them all-Wilbur Mills.😃
 
ishii said:
Bizarre is the obsessive desire to seek out and publicize embarassing sex scandals for partisan reasons.
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Now that’s a quote worthy of being saved - for future reference, I might add. 😉
 
Beau_Ouiville said:
Indiana editorials are urging the representative to resign. There’s just no excuse for agreeing to meet up with someone in a motel.
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So…what’s new with any of this? It’s beginning to be a common occurrence among lawmakers. First of all, morals are GONE GONE GONE in the USA and actually in the world for that matter. Second of all, isn’t it a given by now that lawmakers actually believe they are above the law? That they can get away with absolutely anything?

I find all this news becoming old. Guess you might call it desensitization.
 
Ok I’ll bite An obscure Indiana legislator’s being accused of soliciting sex is newsworthy in CAF because…??
 
estesbob said:
Ok I’ll bite An obscure Indiana legislator’s being accused of soliciting sex is newsworthy in CAF because…??
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Perhaps to point out sinners are found in all segments of society and even amongst the holy ones posting on Catholic Answer boards:(:eek: Peace, Carlan
 
estesbob said:
Ok I’ll bite An obscure Indiana legislator’s being accused of soliciting sex is newsworthy in CAF because…??
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Please apply your questioning attitude to the thread on the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Iowa.
 
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