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Title: New allegations against Spokane mayor
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Seattle PI
URL Source: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local ... 6420&slug=WA%20Spokane%20Mayor
Published: May 24, 2005
Author: NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Post Date: 2005-05-24 16:08:00 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Keywords: allegations, against, Spokane
Views: 230
Comments: 19
New allegations against Spokane mayor By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS SPOKANE, Wash. -- Even as he fended off calls for his resignation, new allegations of past misconduct surfaced Tuesday against Mayor James E. West. In its Tuesday editions, The Spokesman-Review quoted state Sen. Pam Roach as saying that West, when he served in the Legislature, once made an inappropriate sexual comment to her about her teenage son. The newspaper also said a man claimed that he was inappropriately touched during a pat-down search when West was a sheriff's deputy in the 1970s. The allegations were the latest in a series of articles the newspaper has been publishing about West, a conservative and longtime opponent of gay rights. The Spokesman has reported allegations that West molested two boys in the 1970s when he was a deputy sheriff and a Boy Scout leader and that he offered gifts, favors and jobs at City Hall to lure young men. The mayor has denied those allegations, but acknowledged having relations with adult men. The Justice Department is investigating whether West improperly used his political office and city resources, and the city is conducting its own investigation. Roach, R-Auburn, told the newspaper West made the comment in the Senate chamber in about 1990, when her then-18-year-old son was working as a tour guide in the state Capitol. At the time, West was a state senator. "West told me, 'I want to do to your son what no mother would want to know,'" Roach said the former senator told her. "He then got up and left." Roach said she told fellow Republican Sen. Ann Anderson about the encounter at the time, but Anderson, now a lobbyist for Central Washington University, recalled the incident differently. Anderson, a friend of West, told the newspaper she recalled West told Roach, "Pam, you have a nice-looking young son." Roach said she later told her son, Dan Roach, now a Republican state representative from Bonney Lake, about the comment. The newspaper also reported claims of a former Spokane man who said West fondled him in 1977 when the mayor was a sheriff's deputy. Jeffrey A. Mewes, 45, said he was 17 when West shoved his hand down the front of the teenager's pants, ostensibly looking for marijuana. "He put his hand way down inside the front of my pants, like a fondling search," Mewes said. "I told him over and over, 'My weed's not there, it's in my shoe.'" "But he left his hand down inside my pants for a long time," Mewes said. "I thought it was abnormal and very inappropriate." Through his private attorney, Bill Etter, West denied the published reports. "Mr. West denies each and every one of these allegations," Etter said. Roach, who acknowledged having political differences with West when he was a senator, said she likely will be criticized for speaking out against a formerly powerful senate member. "I'm just somebody that he doesn't have power over," Roach said. "It's time for the truth to come out about Mr. West." On Monday, West again denied that he molested two boys decades ago and rejected demands by local business leaders that he resign for the good of the city. In his first public comments in two weeks, West apologized to residents, apparently for trolling a gay Web site. West denied using city-owned equipment for visiting that site. "I have said before and I repeat again that the allegations that I molested young boys over 20 years ago are entirely false," West said Monday in a brief news conference outside his office. "I have never had improper contact with a child." Again refusing to answer questions from reporters, West said he intends to serve the remaining 2 1/2 years of his term. About an hour earlier, business leaders in this city of 200,000 demanded that West resign. The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce and Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau acknowledged that West and his business-friendly policies had been good for the city but said the situation is now a distraction from improvement efforts. "There are over 50 CEOs on the chamber and CVB's boards, and they have told us that they would not have their jobs today if they had done what Jim West has already admitted to doing," the groups said in a joint statement. "We believe that the community needs a new CEO." Only a recall petition and public vote can remove him from office. One resident is pursuing a recall petition.
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#1. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
Our mayor, folks. Huzzah. Hip hip freaking hooray. Well, he said he'd "put Spokane on the map". Not too many politicians actually live up to their campaign promises nowadays...
He's done that, all right. This story has turned up in the New England press. Of course, they troll for stories with a 'gay theme' around these parts.
Lucky you. I hope Spokane has the balls to recall him and send him to San Francisco where he belongs.
Actually, I'm thinking the plan is to turn Spokane into the next San Francisco.
I grew up in Coeur d'Alene and Hayden Lake. It's hard for me to imagine the area falling so far, but I guess times change. By the way, next time you run into a road closed for paving or a pipeline with a hot tempered flagman yelling at cars -- say hi to my dad. :-)
a viciously anti-gay nutbag who used hatred to get elected. What is going on in these people's heads? The disconnect from real life must be amazing. They're sociopaths. This is not what a true conservative like Barry Goldwater had in mind. His grandson was gay and open about it. He loved his grandchildren. I met his granddaughter CiCi several times (and met Barry twice) and she always said, he had his opinions, but he was always ready to listen. I'm sorry, but any gay person who is right wing is like a Jewish Nazi. Perhaps they fantasize about being gangraped and experimented on by hot guys in black uniforms or something, but they are clearly not playing with a full deck. I have several gay friends and the idea of voting for a Republican sends them into fits of laughter. This is seriously chickens voting for Don Tyson crap.
The only thing more ridiculous than voting for a Republican is voting for a Democrat. Why, oh, why do people waste their votes like that?
Bump that, and I vote Libertarian. The RATs are pure evil.
I had several gay friends that were VERY conservative.. and they were all Republicans.. this has been several years ago.. I've not talked to them in some time.. so not sure where they are politically now.. esp since the war..
Or left-wing for that matter. The end goal of any state is conformity.
Right, but at the same time he recently "dated" (and had sex with) someone who was 18 years old, and apparently offered him a job at City Hall. This while being the 52 year old mayor of Spokane. So with this as a given, we are supposed to belive that he has never, ever had sexual contact with someone under 18. Again, I'm now convinced that G.O.P. stand for "Gay Old Pederasts". What they do to little kids, they do to us all. Vote for Republicans, vote for pederasts. That's what you vote for, and that's what you get.
Oh, and that was a young man he had sex with. Yep, our glorious mayor, out there diddling 18 year old boys while serving as Mayor of Spokane. Ain't the GOP just wonderful?
Sexual deviancy seems to be a worldwide prerequisite for political life.
Bingo! If they are in a position of power, they are probably a pederast. This is the true "New World Order", and what they do to little boys they do to us all, every day of our lives.
But it seems to be as old as time. Rulers throughout history have been corrupt in this way.
You are quite correct. Indeed, the ultimate lie here has been naming this regime the "New World Order". It's really nothing but the corrupt old order with some shiny technology and stuff glued on. The real "New Order" was the one established around 1776, based upon the idea of honorable men serving a system that established rule of law that no man was above. That's what once stood here, and that's what we've lost, and now we're back to corrupt old pederasts as tyrants ruling us once again.
Oh, and the story about our Gayor taking some time off to supposedly take care of personal business? Well, he's back at work, he showed up this week back in his office and went back to work like its no big deal. And since we've just put in a "strong mayor" system in this town, it looks like there is nothing that can be done about it. He is apparently comfortable with the idea of staying in office for the remainder of his term, and there is nothing we can do about it short of a recall. Needless to say, there is an active recall effort going on. We'll see how it all works out.
Is the recall effort legitimate? We had a case here in a nearby city where the law only allows one recall petition at a time. The mayor knew he was in deep shit, so he had his own guy initiate the recall and then fumble and drag it out so as to prevent a legitimate one from being run. Damn sneaky and it worked.
#2. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)
Well, he said he'd "put Spokane on the map".
#3. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)
Our mayor, folks.
#4. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#3)
#5. To: Elliott Jackalope (#4)
#6. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
#7. To: Mekons4 (#6)
#8. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#7)
The only thing more ridiculous than voting for a Republican is voting for a Democrat.
#9. To: Mekons4 (#6)
#10. To: Mekons4 (#6)
I'm sorry, but any gay person who is right wing is like a Jewish Nazi.
#11. To: Dakmar (#10)
The end goal of any state is conformity.
#12. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
"I have said before and I repeat again that the allegations that I molested young boys over 20 years ago are entirely false," West said Monday in a brief news conference outside his office. "I have never had improper contact with a child."
#13. To: All (#12)
#14. To: Elliott Jackalope (#13)
#15. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#14)
#16. To: Elliott Jackalope (#15)
This is the true "New World Order"
#17. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#16)
#18. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#16)
#19. To: Elliott Jackalope (#18)
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