Former Arizona Rep. David Stringer’s political career was cut short last week after his alleged taste for underage boys finally came back to haunt him.
Stringer, who holds at 0% rating with the Stonewall Democrats of Arizona, a political group that advocates for issues relevant to LGBTQ Americans, has been fighting an ethics investigation into alleged sex crimes he committed back in the early 1980s.
The crimes involved two boys, ages 13 and 15 years.
AZCentral reports:
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A Baltimore police report from 1983 was released by the Arizona House of Representatives, which had been investigating Stringer’s past sex-crime charges.
The report states police arrested Stringer in September 1983, after a boy told detectives that Stringer had met him and a friend in a park a year earlier, and asked them to come back to his apartment to have sex.
Stringer allegedly paid the boys $10 after he performed oral sex on them and had them perform the same act on him, according to the report.
The report also states the one of the boys told police he met with Stringer “at least 10 times” to perform “acts of fellatio and sodomy” and to take showers together.
When the boy’s father learned of what was going on, he contacted police and Stringer was arrested.
AZCentral reports:
Stringer, who was 36 when he was arrested, was charged with eight counts of sex crimes. He later accepted a plea deal on some combination of charges and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation.
He also was required to seek admission to what appears to be a treatment clinic for sex offenders.
But few details of Stringer’s sentence are known because a Baltimore judge expunged the case in 1990, erasing the court records.
The Ethics Committee first began investigating Stringer in January after learning of the now decades-old sex crimes.
Last Wednesday, the 71-year-old abruptly resigned from office after he refused to cooperate with ethics investigators after they filed a subpoena demanding records related to his sex charges.
On Saturday, Stringer ook to Facebook to voice is outrage and to say he was “forced to resign” against his will.
In an angry post published at 3 AM, Stringer insisted the allegations “had no basis in fact.”
“What I will say is that the charges I faced in 1983 are as false today as they were 35 years ago,” Stringer raged, before calling what has happened to him totally “unfair.”
Stringer has repeatedly stated that he was never convicted of any crime and has accused the media of peddling false information.
“There is no guilty plea, no conviction,” he told Prescott eNews back in January. “I have no record; I have done nothing wrong.”
DCguy
Don’t forget, this guy was ALSO experiencing some backlash for recent racist comments.
What a shock, the Republican is a bigot AND a racist. Anybody surprised?
Oh, and if the usual troll accounts try to come on this thread, please be prepared to talk about all of the right wingers who’ve been caught with male prostitutes or made racist comments. Your deflections won’t work.
CobraPowers
You know, regular IQ people build tolerance to the word “racist” when it’s thrown around so much.
But craziness like that doesn’t surprise me from loony conspiracy theorist DemonRats like you.
Kangol
Oh, they build “tolerance” to the word “racist,” just as they are and have been “racists”? Got you! It’s still repellant, no matter how happy you are to live with the term.
dwes09
When an individual’s comments can be easily googled, as well as their typical right wing disingenuous apology “, regular IQ people (Which you demonstrate plainly that you are below) understand that there is no conspiracy involved in labeling the individual racist.
You really need to learn how to use a dictionary, and look up those complicated words like conspiracy. The loony (and dullard) here is probably you, as indicated by the lame and sophomoric use of “DemonRats” as if you were demonstrating cleverness!
CobraPowers
@dwes09 – Don’t speak about things you know nothing about. You only expose yourself to be a low IQ individual who should just go back to watching drag shows instead of engaging in civil discourse. The conspiracy theory I referred to was DCguy’s blind faith on the “Russian collusion” narrative, which was already disproven.
And actually labeling people ist and phobe is a pretty common tactic from the left. They think by calling someone racist that shuts down the argument, LOL.
DCguy
@CobraPowers
So let’s see, your covering for the Republicans racist comments got called out and you respond with “Oh, I wasn’t talking about that, I was talking about something else having nothing to do with this thread?
LOL! Please tell the RNC to send smarter trolls.
Jared MacBride
It was just a little horseplay. Nothing to see here.
Vince
Yeah, he’s innocent alright because only someone innocent would take a plea deal.
Polaro
Actually, anyone would take a plea deal to keep even the accusations at bay back then. That said, he’s a real nasty piece of work, he probably did do it, and I’m not losing sleep over it. I still think dredging up stuff that is almost 40 years old is a bit much.
Brian
While I normally think that what people were doing 40 years ago is pretty irrelevant to the person they are today, I do make an exception for anti LGBT politicians. People’s views on issues changing over 40 years is reasonable. People losing their taste for d!ck is not.
Mikestuff
Yikes, his toupee’ makes him unworthy of having any to do with the public. There ought to be a law against them.
sputnik53
He’s got HIB! ( Hair I Bought )
Anonymister
When someone is arrested and pleads guilty it is no longer “alleged.”
DCguy
THANK YOU!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I really, really, really, really wish one of the thousands of multi-millionaire Gays out there would very publicly announce a program offering say $100,000.00 cash for any verified info on any of these hyprocritic
reprehensible, noxious, abhorrent smcubags who have been involved in any nefarious behavior. Once submitted then make it beyond public knowledge. Destroy and seek complete annihilation of their lives and careers. Do this a few times and we won’t see so many lawmakers seeking to deny our rights….
Kangol
A rabidly anti-gay, racist Republican has abominable skeletons, involving the repeated abuse of underage kids, in his closet, and refuses to take responsibility for his actions? Say it ain’t so!
fur_hunter
Chicka Boom! Chicka Boom! Don’t ya jest luv it!??? Chicka Boom! Chicka Boom! Chicka Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
Ronbo
Even worse… Chic-fil-a revoked his free crap for life card! Now he is FORCED to take his chicken raw.
What choice does he have?
GayEGO
Oh my! Another Republican pretended to be so righteous and got caught for sexual acts on young boys! Such a shock!