The Republican Party has a campaign manager in the state of Arizona by the name of Steve Aiken who was convicted back in 1995 of having sexual relations with a teenager. ABC News has the story:
A man convicted of "corruption of minors" after being accused of having sex with two teenage girls is working as the campaign manager for a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona, according to documents obtained by ABC News.
Steve Aiken, a former Quakertown, Pa. police officer and self-proclaimed reverend, was convicted of two counts of corruption of a minor stemming from his 1995 sexual relationships with two teenage girls. He served almost two-and-a-half months at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility.
Aiken is listed as campaign manager for Randy Graf, a Republican in a five-way primary for the Congressional seat in Arizona's 8th district.
It is also worth mentioning that Steve Aiken, other than being the campaign manager for U.S. House candidate Randy Graf, has a radio show based out of Tucson, Arizona called "Straight from the Hip." On his personal web site, http://SteveAiken.com, he describes himself as a "working class conservative," and claims to host "the fastest growing talk radio show in Arizona."
Even more interesting, Aiken was once the Communications Director for the Traditional Values Coalition, a group that represents 43,000 churches nationwide in the ongoing effort to ban gay marriage. And back in 2001, as member of that coalition, Aiken wrote a press release about how Harry Potter promotes Wicca, a "witchcraft" religion that he said advocates "homosexuality" and "abortion as a sacred act."
U.S. House candidate Randy Graf, whose campaign is being managed by Steve Aiken, is trying to fill the House seat of retiring Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe.
Now you know one of the interesting minds behind the Republican effort to maintain control of Congress. Help defeat Randy Graf by giving what you can to the Arizona Democratic Party.
