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Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Another repub pedophile...

As if we needed yet one more shudderingly repulsive account of a Republican who is virulently anti-gay by day and an abusive pedophile by night...

But there Jim West is -- still squatting in the mayor's office, still holding all of Spokane, Washington, hostage despite unanimous calls for his resignation from citizens, business leaders, the Chamber of Commerce and, at long last, from even his own City Council. A defiant West maintains that he is being persecuted by those who accuse him of molestation and by Spokane's newspaper, which broke the story on May 5 after a lengthy and in-depth investigation.

West denies allegations that he sexually molested two boys in the 1970's when he was a sheriff's deputy and Boy Scout Leader, but admitted that others would probably "pile on" because of his power and importance. The boys -- men now -- also accuse a close friend of West's of abuse. David Hahn, who was a deputy sheriff and co-scoutmaster with West, committed suicide in 1981 during a sheriff's department internal investigation of molestation. Those files, which Spokane's sheriff said at first were "shredded," then "lost," have now been "found" and turned over to investigators.

- Sheila Samples

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/jimwest/

What's even more surprising is that there are devout Christian ladies in the area who view West as an innocent victim of the SCLM (one of my family members has personally heard them voicing outrage and sympathy for his "persecution" at prayer meetings. )