Spokane Mayor Caught in Gay Sex Scandal

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Spokane Mayor Caught in Gay Sex Scandal

SPOKANE, WA-May 9, 2005 — Revelations that Spokane Mayor James West slept with men - and has been accused of pedophilia by two alleged victims - came as a shock to residents of this Washington city. But it came as no surprise that West, 54, has vowed to stay in his job. His career has been based, in large part, on overcoming adversity.

"I am a law-abiding citizen and I believe my public record of service stands on its own merit," West said Thursday in his only public comments on the case. "I have 1,150 days left in my term of office and each and every one of those days will be dedicated to serving the city."

West also vehemently denied the molestation allegations, but he did acknowledge trolling a gay Web site and said he "had relationships with adult men. I don't deny that."

West, raised in Spokane, joined the U.S. Army in 1971 and became a member of the 82nd Airborne. One of his Internet chat room screen names on Gay.com was "Cobra82nd," thought to be a reference to his military service, according to The Spokesman-Review newspaper, which broke the story on Thursday. West left the military in 1974 and returned to Spokane to seek a career in law enforcement. In 1975 he became a Spokane County deputy and a few years later became involved in Boy Scouts and other youth-oriented activities, interests he has maintained to the present day. West ran for sheriff in 1978, but lost. The next year he was appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms of the state House of Representatives in Olympia for the 1979 session. In the mid-1970s, West was a Boy Scouts leader with David Hahn, a fellow sheriff's deputy. Hahn killed himself in 1981 amid allegations of pedophilia, and West has said he knew nothing about his friend's proclivities. But one of Hahn's alleged victims came forward to The Spokesman-Review last week to say that West did know about the abuse: In 1980, Hahn and West took a group of boys on a hiking trip around Mount Rainier. The victim, then 12, said he was molested by Hahn in his tent and told West about it the next day; West told him to "forget it." That year, West beat an incumbent to become at 28 the youngest city councilman in Spokane history. In 1982 he was elected to the state House, and five years later moved up to the state Senate. A social and fiscal conservative, he spent the next 16 years rising in power, until he became majority leader in 2003. West opposed gay rights, abortion rights and teenage sex during his legislative career. He made headlines in 1990 when he proposed marriage from the floor of the Senate to Ginger Marshall while she was visiting the Capitol. Their marriage ended five years later and they had no children.

In 1998, West got major publicity when he made a threatening phone call to building industry lobbyist Tom McCabe during a political dispute. He left a screaming message on an answering machine in which he warned McCabe, "you better get me, 'cause if you don't you're dead."

West was forced to pay $500 to a charity and apologize to McCabe in a plea agreement. The incident cemented his reputation as a tough guy and loose cannon. In 2000 he ran for mayor of Spokane, but lost in the primary. In 2002, he beat Democrat Laurie Dolan in the most expensive state Senate race in Washington history, when they combined to spend $735,000, and he was chosen majority leader. In April 2003, West announced he had colon cancer and underwent surgery. Later that year he decided to once again run for mayor. He beat journalist Tom Grant for the job of leading the city of 200,000. As the story of his secret life was landing on people's doorsteps, West got up early for a meeting with city labor leaders. Then he held a regularly scheduled meeting with top city executives to go over civic business. Members of Spokane's gay community said there have long been rumors about West's sexual orientation. Kevan Gardner of the Pride Foundation, a community-based group, said he was sorely disappointed that West railed against gay rights for so long.

In an e-mail to city employees Thursday, West gave no hint of resigning.

"It's only three and a half days to Monday and boy am I looking forward to that," West wrote. "As you know, Monday is my favorite day of the week because it is a new beginning and it comes every seven days."

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Former republican Senator John Decamp was involved in the production a documentary called "Conspiracy of Silence" it was to air May 3, 1994 on the Discovery Channel. This documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies. At the last minute before airing, unknown congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry with restrictive legislation if this documentary was aired.

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Amber alert on Capitol Hill

Witness says abducted children--23 now dead--abused by 20-30 pedophile members of congress at child sex parties held at Embassy Row mansion where Secret Service-secured presidential limo was seen parked outside

By Tom Flocco

Lincoln, NE -- March 28, 2005

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Recently arrested photographer Russell E. "Rusty" Nelson--who according to U.S. District court testimony [2-5-1999] was impersonated by another photographer at Capitol Hill child sex parties during the Reagan and Bush presidencies, told us last week that in 1988 he refused Hunter Thompson’s offer of $100,000 to film a graphic child sex "snuff movie to be sold to wealthy private clients where a young boy would be murdered as a sacrifice."

"I’ve been homeless, in hiding and staying under the radar screen ever since," said Nelson.

Thompson reportedly committed suicide a few weeks ago on February 10, 2005--six days prior to Nelson’s February 16 arrest, when simultaneous search warrants were served to confiscate Nelson’s photographic equipment, computers, photos and "visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving a child," according to copies we obtained. Nelson said authorities were hoping to find evidence of child porn; but he claims to have never been involved. His next public hearing is May 4 in Lincoln.

Nelson enhanced his credibility in sworn testimony before Nebraska U.S. Senior District Judge Warren Urbom on February 5, 1999 [pp. 101-154] resulting in Urbom awarding attorney John DeCamp's client--pedophile victim Paul Bonacci, $1 million dollars in damages for sexual abuse in a case against convicted GOP activist Larry King, who sang the national anthem at the 1984 and 1988 Republican national conventions.

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Voters dump Spokane mayor amid sex scandal
Wed Dec 7, 2005 6:46 PM ET

By William Stimson

SPOKANE, Washington (Reuters) - Voters in Spokane, Washington, have ousted their conservative mayor following newspaper reports that he offered city jobs to young men in the hopes of having sex with them, according to election results posted on Wednesday.

Sixty-five percent of voters in Washington's second-largest city voted to recall Mayor James West in Tuesday's special election, according to Spokane County's elections office.

Once the recall vote is certified in ten days, West will immediately leave office. The president of Spokane's city council will become interim mayor and the council will tap a new mayor to serve the remaining two years of West's term.

At a press conference on Wednesday, West said he regretted some things in his private life. "I am embarrassed by them, but nevertheless, they are in my private life," West said.

A former deputy sheriff and Boy Scout leader, West, 54, had been a prominent Republican political figure and leader in the state legislature until quitting state politics to run for mayor in 2003.

In the legislature he had a reputation as a social conservative and co-sponsored a bill which would have made unmarried sex between teenagers a crime and another that would limited contact between gay state employees and children.

Last spring, Spokane's daily newspaper, the Spokesman-Review, ran a series of articles that said West had spent large amounts of time on gay Web sites and quoted three young men who said they had communicated over the Internet with him and had been offered city jobs or positions by him.

The newspaper also hired a computer consultant to engage West in conversation over the Internet. The consultant, posing as an 18-year-old male high school student, discussed, according to the transcripts printed by the newspaper, a position on a city board and arranging a meeting for sex.

Confronted with the reports, West acknowledged he had led a double life but adamantly denied offering anything in exchange for sex. He also denied misusing his city-owned computer during the Internet exchanges or for downloading pornography.

Hundreds of photos of nude men were found on his computer hard drive, but West said they downloaded automatically without his knowledge as a result of his opening gay Web sites. The city conducted its own probe and determined West was guilty of misusing city equipment.