Ho-Hum

Another day, another two GOPerverts snagged by the long arm of the law.

GOP's McKee Resigns After Home is Searched

Robert A. McKee, a long-serving Republican delegate from Western Maryland, announced his resignation yesterday after authorities, who say they are conducting a child pornography investigation, seized two computers, videotapes and printed materials from his Hagerstown home.

...McKee was chairman of the Western Maryland delegation and sponsored legislation to protect minors from sexual predators. McKee, 58, also resigned yesterday from his post as executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County, a child mentorship program where he has worked for 29 years.

Prosecutor, Under Fire, Steps Down in Houston

Besieged by an e-mail scandal and perjury accusations, Texas’s most powerful prosecutor resigned on Friday, saying that a combination of prescription drugs had “caused some impairment in my judgment"...

It was a relief to fellow Republican leaders who last month quashed Mr. Rosenthal’s bid for a third term....

The resignation, announced in a one-page statement, followed by hours the filing of a state suit seeking Mr. Rosenthal’s removal “for intoxication, incompetence or official misconduct.” The action, by a lawyer, Lloyd E. Kelley, whose federal civil rights lawsuit precipitated Mr. Rosenthal’s downfall, was filed two weeks after Mr. Rosenthal admitted in federal court here that he had deleted up to 3,500 personal e-mail messages in violation of two subpoenas and a court order and that in sworn testimony he gave false information on how he came to delete some of them.

Seven weeks ago, hundreds of Mr. Rosenthal’s other e-mail messages were disclosed, including endearments to his executive secretary, sexual and racist jokes and pornographic videos.... Mr. Rosenthal wrote his secretary, Kerry Stevens, last July, “Bet I could make you sleep.” He also forwarded to a friend a mock study of flatulence and a series of jokes making fun of University of Texas football players after several had been arrested on felony charges. Also in his e-mail but not with his name was a photograph titled “Fatal Overdose,” of a black man lying on a sidewalk amid watermelon peels and Kentucky Fried Chicken containers....

Mr. Kelley’s suit said Mr. Rosenthal “should be removed on the grounds of intoxication” and said “he drinks at the office while performing his duties and may be intoxicated when making his decisions as district attorney.” The papers also said he illegally used county facilities for campaigning and had used county computers to receive and send racially derogatory and sexist jokes and to “carry on his affair with his mistress.”

The suit contended that Sheriff Tommy Thomas of Harris County was an ally of Mr. Rosenthal in failing to investigate misconduct by deputies and that the sheriff had accepted illegal benefits for his ranch from county contractors.

Back in the day, when confronted with a Republican my default presumptions were usually, "Doesn't want to pay taxes. Enjoys war." Now, they're straight out of the "Paraphilias and Sexual Disorders" section of the DSM-IV or the sex offenses section of the local penal code. There have been so many examples of this stuff over the last seven years, that witnessing yet another member of the party of "Family Values" ensnared in some web of their own sexual perversity has come to seem banal. That's pathetic if you think about it.