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18 Dec 2011, 12:48 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/miss-mayor-reveal ... 05501.html
Quote:
Miss. Mayor Reveals He is Gay…After Visiting Gay Sex Shop on City’s Dime
A conservative Mississippi mayor has said he is gay after an audit showed he had the city pay for a wide range of personal expenses, including a visit to a gay sex store in Canada.
Southaven Mayor Greg Davis revealed publicly for the first time Thursday that he is gay, and said he has struggled to keep his sexuality from affecting his public role as mayor of Mississippi’s third-largest city.
“At this point in my life and in my career, while I have tried to maintain separation between my personal and public life, it is obvious that this can no longer remain the case,” Davis told the Commercial Appeal, a Tennessee-based publication. “While I have performed my job as mayor, in my opinion, as a very conservative, progressive individual — and still continue to be a very conservative individual — I think that it is important that I discuss the struggles I have had over the last few years when I came to the realization that I am gay.”
Davis, a Republican, has been under criminal investigation for allegedly misusing $170,000 in city funds on both his city-issued and personal credit cards. According to the Commercial Appeal, an audit revealed he used city money to pay for thousands of dollars worth of liquor, expensive dinners, and a $67 charge at Priape, a Toronto store described by its website as “Canada’s premiere gay lifestyle store and sex shop.”
He told the newspaper he doesn’t remember what he purchased at the store, but said he visited it on a recruitment trip for the city.
Davis, who is divorced with three daughters, made an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2008, running on a family values platform. He was first elected mayor in 1997, and said it‘s too early for talk about whether he’ll resign in light of the disputed expenses. He said he plans to take time off through the holidays to spend time with his family.
“The only apology I would make to my supporters if they are upset is the fact that I was not honest enough with myself to be honest with them,” he said. “But I have lived my life in public service for 20-plus years, and in order for me to remain sane and move on, I have got to start being honest about who I am.”
A conservative Mississippi mayor has said he is gay after an audit showed he had the city pay for a wide range of personal expenses, including a visit to a gay sex store in Canada.
Southaven Mayor Greg Davis revealed publicly for the first time Thursday that he is gay, and said he has struggled to keep his sexuality from affecting his public role as mayor of Mississippi’s third-largest city.
“At this point in my life and in my career, while I have tried to maintain separation between my personal and public life, it is obvious that this can no longer remain the case,” Davis told the Commercial Appeal, a Tennessee-based publication. “While I have performed my job as mayor, in my opinion, as a very conservative, progressive individual — and still continue to be a very conservative individual — I think that it is important that I discuss the struggles I have had over the last few years when I came to the realization that I am gay.”
Davis, a Republican, has been under criminal investigation for allegedly misusing $170,000 in city funds on both his city-issued and personal credit cards. According to the Commercial Appeal, an audit revealed he used city money to pay for thousands of dollars worth of liquor, expensive dinners, and a $67 charge at Priape, a Toronto store described by its website as “Canada’s premiere gay lifestyle store and sex shop.”
He told the newspaper he doesn’t remember what he purchased at the store, but said he visited it on a recruitment trip for the city.
Davis, who is divorced with three daughters, made an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2008, running on a family values platform. He was first elected mayor in 1997, and said it‘s too early for talk about whether he’ll resign in light of the disputed expenses. He said he plans to take time off through the holidays to spend time with his family.
“The only apology I would make to my supporters if they are upset is the fact that I was not honest enough with myself to be honest with them,” he said. “But I have lived my life in public service for 20-plus years, and in order for me to remain sane and move on, I have got to start being honest about who I am.”
Some "family values conservative", eh? Misusing $170,000 in city funds to pay for liquor, expensive dinners, and, on top of that, $67 at a gay sex shop in Toronto.
I guess it was all okay, for a conservative Repugnican to misappropriate hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pretending to be a "family values" man is de rigueur. But, when he spent $67 at a gay sex shop in Toronto, and revealed himself to be a homosexual, that was the end of his political career. At that point, his sexuality affected his public role as mayor.
18 Dec 2011, 1:15 pm
18 Dec 2011, 1:37 pm
snapcap wrote:
People like this make it hard for the LGBT community to be heard with a rational ear.
Agreed. If every Republican goes to sex shops or has a rentboy, how is one to recognize a civilized homosexual 
?
18 Dec 2011, 1:51 pm
18 Dec 2011, 1:52 pm
snapcap wrote:
People like this make it hard for the LGBT community to be heard with a rational ear.
That's for sure. They end up turning themselves into laughing stocks.
And, they reflect very poorly upon Republican homosexuals.
A lot of Repugnicans who present themselves as the most stidently anti-homosexual usually turn out to be homosexual themselves. Like Rick Perry, for example.
18 Dec 2011, 2:00 pm
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