Republican Richard Curtis' sex scandal: Cody Catagna discusses the "Wallet incident"
By John Amato Thursday Nov 01, 2007 12:01pm
You can't make these stories up. I know, I know. I always say that, but it's true. Logan already posted this story about the cross-dressing---anti-gay---gay---Republican State Legislator Richard Curtis yesterday. This interview with the male prostitute involved puts the icing on the cake.
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ABRAMS Alright, Cody, let me start with you, how did you realize that this guy that you had had sex with was actually a lawmaker?
CASTAGNA: That would be after he gave me his wallet.
ABRAMS: Why did he give you his wallet?
CASTAGNA: Because he didn‘t have enough money to give me at that time and so he gave me his wallet as collateral. (transcript below the fold)
via MSNBC: ABRAMS: Another Conservative Republican lawmaker announcing his resignation today after being exposed as both the homosexual and the hypocrite. On October 26, Washington State representative, Richard Curtis apparently dressed in red stockings and a black sequin lingerie top and let‘s just say he wasn‘t on his way to a Halloween party. According to police reports, Curtis who has voted against gay rights legislation visited an erotic video store where he was seen receiving oral sex from an unidentified man inside a viewing booth. The report says he then invited another young man from the store back to his Spokane hotel promising $1,000 for sex. What followed we really can’t repeat on TV. Let’s just say involved lingerie, rope and stethoscopes. They all made appearance. All of these came to light after the conservative lawmaker apparently contacted police claiming he was the victim of extortion by this man.
Joining us now is Cody Castagna, the man who Representative Curtis allegedly paid to have sex with him and his lawyer. Thanks very much for coming on the program to both of you. We appreciate it. Alright, Cody, let me start with you, how did you realize that this guy that you had had sex with was actually a lawmaker?
CODY CASTAGNA, CLAIM HE HAD SEX WITH LAWMAKER FOR MONEY: That would be after he gave me his wallet.
ABRAMS: Why did he give you his wallet?
CASTAGNA: Because he didn‘t have enough money to give me at that time and so he gave me his wallet as collateral.
ABRAMS: And then you say he definitely wasn‘t paying up the money he owed so you started going through his wallet?
CASTAGNA: No. no. He gave me—well, he was tired. He didn‘t want to go down and—plus he didn‘t think he could get that much money at that time of the morning. So, he told me to hold on to his wallet until in the morning when he would be able to go and get the remainder of the money that he promised me.
ABRAMS: And so, it sounds like what he did is he ended up calling the police and claiming that you were trying to extort money from him, right?
CASTAGNA: Yes.
ABRAMS: Mr. Partovi, let me ask you a quick question on that, I mean, it sounds like the reason that this was all sort of came out into the open is because he called the authorities saying—someone is trying to extort money from me and, as a result, this whole investigation ensued, right?
DAVID PARTOVI, CASTAGNA’S LAWYER: I think that‘s absolutely correct. You know, his smart move would have been just to keep his promise and I don‘t think the young man, to my left or to my right, I guess, wouldn‘t have made a big deal about it at all. He chose to take what is essentially consensual simple misdemeanor level conduct between two men and turn it into a violent class B felony that carries an instantaneous six-month sentence for my client with no prior felonies.
ABRAMS: Has anyone been charged yet?
PARTOVI: Nobody’s been charged. I think that it‘s an unreasonable escalation but, you know, in this town, the only reason that I’m really here, Dan, is because this young man hasn‘t been through anything like this before. I have. And, unfortunately, I do expect a charge, even though the evidence, I don‘t think, supports one.
ABRAMS: Against your client, yes. Cody, are you surprised that this is an official – a politician who’s voted against gay rights legislation?
CASTAGNA: That blew my mind when I found that out it didn‘t surprise me though, I mean. But
I'm sorry to have to post this again. But it just shows that this stuff is rampant and inherent within the Republican Party and Gov't as a whole. This is where the Jeff Gannon/Guckerts come from. We have to deal with the truth if we are going to clean this government the way it needs to be cleaned. Deeply.
The Franklin Cover-Up
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3395321338401208062
Investigate.
Because he didn‘t have enough money to give me at that time and so he gave me his wallet as collateral".
Collateral? for what? Throat Yogurt?
Hello Frisco!!! Is there any straight men left in the GOP?? I expect mass defections just to protect their masculine image..LOL
Because he didn‘t have enough money to give me at that time and so he gave me his wallet as collateral. (transcript below the fold).
Wow. They really seated a smart one up there in Washington state.
I'm upset at this "Kiss and tell" incident. This male prostittute needs to be investigated for his "loose lips." Are there no gentlemen anymore? A Gentleman never tells -- he merely legislates.
/sarcasm.
>> My theory that many politicians have been compromised by getting dirt on them seems to be getting more and more support by the news. If you want to gain power -- promote incompetent people who have done something wrong -- something they can never talk about. Who needs loyalty when you have extortion?
Does anyone still think Domestic spying is about catching terrorists? They don't want to end terrorism -- it's too good for business. Sounds a lot like Hoover all over again.
Larry Flynt needs to set up a call center whereby on the count of
3... 2... 1...
every republican officeholder in the country gets a call from the Larry Flynt camp, asking for a return phone call...
see how many hundreds of them schedule press conferences within 3 hours saying they are stepping down to spend more time with their families.
They make a cute couple, don't you think?
Curtis does have that 80s porn mustache thing going there.
Don't know much facts yet but, I think the Young dude is lying. I think he DID choose to extort the Republican politician -- I mean, what person in their right mind would give someone your wallet if you didn't intend to pay, really?
It's a sad, unfortunate incident. The kid is probably a class A weasel. But on the PLUS side, we expose another Republican hypocrite and hopefully we can end this stupid policy of policing the bedroom in politics so that we can get votes.
>> I still think that other Republicans know about Richard Curtis and that's why he votes the way he does. Loyal like in the Mob.
LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL
These reich-wingers are absolutely priceless! Seriously, Stephen King could make this up! Thank you, reich-wingers, for your hypocrisy, stupidity, and out-right pathetic existence!
BTW, the author of Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly has a new blog and book that details, exposes, and tracks conservative sex scandals
http://www.conservativesexscandals.com/
:D
But did you hear about Rudy's latest "Cross-Dressing?"
I needed a laugh this morning thanks for giving it to me. These guys are so funny as they seat up on the GOP God chair and look down at other they are doing worse. Why not give gay rights and get it over with then he wouldn't have to worry about his dates. Something is strange about how male prostitutes never get arrested by the DOJ nor do female prostitutes but one massage parlor that wouldn't allow sex with Law Makers is now under arrest. I guess the Republican policy is prostitution, child molestation, stealing, lying under oath and murder is legal but those who follow the law must go to jail. No wonder the Media is pushing for a GOP to take the White House in 2009, if not things could change. At lease we know the Churches and the Pastors are totally behind the GOP policy as long as their paid to support it. It's not safe to shake a Law Makers hand these days you never know where it has been.
The GOP is a machismo fetish club. That's why they talk like that-- always trying to seem more angry and aggressive than their competition. It's a leather bar, Village People kind of macho.
BuzzFlash Message: We have some advice for the macho-posturing Republican males. If you don't want people to think you are gay, a cross-dresser, adulterer, transsexual, or a child molester, you better become a Democrat or Independent. Because at the fast pace of sexual perversity being exposed among elected Republican officials -- almost all of whom are invariably publicly and sanctimoniously opposed to gays and adultery -- it's kind of de facto questionable whether any white GOP male who claims to be for "family values" is not a "pervert." -- The BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week
I rest my case!
Dr. Matt @ 10:
It would be more humorous if it had ANY impact on the media, or the course of events as we slide into Fascism. It's more like gallows humor at the moment.
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lindsey graham
heh...
Let's see, it's the gay hooker's word against a republican US congressman's. You really have to believe the person with the most credibility here. Obviously, the most respectable of these two men is telling the truth. How in the world Richard Curtis is going to overcome the stigma attached to being a repiglican lawmaker is anyone's guess.
Funny stuff!
What is really scary is that these nitwits are making policy that affect us all.
VitriolAndAngst @ 9:
Never underestimate the stupidity or absurdity of a Republican politician.
Not only is Curtis a Hypocrite, he is stupid too!!!!
Yet another classic example of how Amerika parallels Rome.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned (Bush-9/11)
Half the senate are flamming gay.
The only thing left would be beastiality.
Wonder what's in Cheney's closet?
The double-entendres just keep...coming.
"You have a pretty mouth".
Name the president who spoke those words to an male aide of the Canadian prime minister.
What we need, though, is someone who knows all the dirt on all the republicans. Sort of a 21st century 'deep throat?'
Okay, now I need to bleach my brain.
Ummm, no. That's been covered.
It's not the incidents themselves that surprise me, a gay man, it's just how stupid these people think we are. Gay people know what it sounds like when someone tries to hide that they've had (or wanted to have) gay sex. Most of us have been in that situation before.
It just blows my (mind that is) how stupid these guys think we are.
Is this a game or something?
Seems lately, that these anti-gay republicans are getting caught for gay sex and what is funny about it is each "bust" is even funnier then the last.
Who wants to play a game:
Can anyone guess the name of someone..(hint: he's a man, and a republican) who was caught giving fellatio to a sleeping man?
VitriolAndAngst @ 16:
If this happened to a Dem, the media would give it 24/7 news coverage because this type of behavior is portrayed as what is expected of Dems and not the "values party".
CoconutHead @ 17:
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another word: Mitch Mcconnell.
:)
going down?
A stethoscope? *snicker*
Billy (A Liberal Disabled Vet) @ 25:
Bwaaaaahahahahaaaa! Good one!
Well, the police were in on the phone call where Castagna allegedly set up the drop for the remaining $800 he was demanding. Castagna then sent someone to the drop to get the money for him. We'll learn more about this if police pursue charges. The whole thing will come down on what the police are able to testify to based on what they heard from Castagna and his pals at the time of the events and when they were arrested.
Demanding money by threatening to expose someone's private shames publically is a dirty game. I doubt we would be treating Castagna's actions so lightly if the alleged victim wasn't a hypocritical lying sack of shit Republican hack.
I'm not sure it is defense to felony extortion charges that the victim had promised to fulfull a contract which by itself was illegal to enter into, let alone carry out.
Oh good lord. Save me from the neo-con, right-wing, christian coalition, conservative compassionate, ya-da-ya-da
VitriolAndAngst @ 16:
AMEN!!!
The only thing these "events" are good for is a little chuckle while the nation becomes more permanently a dictatorship. I almost think the Gay Ole Party sets these up on purpose as a gauge of where they are in the complete subjugation of the country: when they go completely unnoticed, they'll know their work is done.
Gave the guy his wallet?!?
How does someone this stupid get elected to public office?
The Democrats should run on the platform of Our gays are better than their gays.
Ours are the out, fun, happy, Will and Grace gays.
Theirs are the angry, closeted, creepy, preying, priest/gym teacher gays.
Which do you prefer, America?
LongTooth @ 24:
Haven't heard this one. Who was the prez? Who was the PM?
Wow, the party with the copyright on moral values, is making me feel like a deviant.
I'm a man that often engages in impure thoughts about women. I even married a woman.
Do I need to go to a Republican Church to get cured of my hetero-ness?
mirror @ 33:
Yeah, it is unfair for someone who is obvious a liberal, to blackmail a Republican. What happens in the GOP is supposed to stay in the GOP, until they need to make a scapegoat of you.
jen8933 @ 30:
grandma mcconnell?
Annoyed Canuck Says:
"Gave the guy his wallet?!?
How does someone this stupid get elected to public office?"
Come on. After the last (seems like 30 years) 6.5 years, you have to ask?
I admit that I do feel a perverse pleasure at watching this. But I also know that it will not affect the voting patterns of any of the authoritarian fundamentalist christianist dominionist Christians. Remember, Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven.
By offering a 'get out of hell free' card, Christian theology seams to actually encourage exploring all of the thoughts in one's head, whether or not they are legal or moral (and no, I am not saying that GLTB's are immoral or amoral (though some of the afcd Christians sure are)). No matter how bad the action - child abuse, wife-beating, theft, marital infidelity - they know that Jesus will pull their fat out of the fire.
QUESTION: It's always bothered me that the jeff gannon episode was not investigated more thoroughly, i doubt that iwas investigated at all. the mainstream media passed on this, why, not really sure since it surely would have sold some papers. the congress i think essentially passed on a thorough investigation. i just wish one of the tabloids or penthouse would have picked up on this and run. i think everyone assumes there was something rotten there, but then again, innocent until proven... i don't really think this would have been all that difficult to prove. there was a direct connection to the white house and they virtually skated on this. This was one area if exposed that even one-toothed wonder in kansas, colo. and nebraska would have rejected. they just don't put up with that kind of "unnatural" behavior. Hypocrisy be damned, it's the homo behavior they're after.
What's going on is that the hypocritical Reslug party is full of closet Gays getting busted with their male sex partners.
Pam Spaulding has a lot more of the lurid details re: the cross-dressing homophobic anti-gay voting Rep Curtis' arrest following his tryst with with male escort/porn actor Cody Castagna. .
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3471
Another one bites the......
lucid fiction @ 2:
Throat Yogurt has to be the most disturbing way of putting it that i've ever heard.
Thanks for ruining my day :(
I wonder if the media will ever again cover anything other then this kind of stuff.
With "morals" like these who needs sins?
L.A. Confidential @ 49:
I doubt it...I was picking up lunch earlier, and they were goin on about Brittenys spending habits....who gives a damn about that dumb bitch? With all the fucked up shit goin on...ah MSM can go straight to hell!!!
On Northwest Cable News last night they never once mentioned that this fellow is a republican.
Republican is a synonym for hypocrite. They protect unborn children but ignore the BORN. They disdain homosexuality publicly but privately...another story. They steal from the poor to give to the rich - but they are the "compassionate moral party." I'm so sick of them all and the mess they've made. And when it all comes crashing down the democrats will be blamed again. Just watch.
Decisions, decisions: Pay a $1000 as offered or ruin my political career, pay $1000 as offered or ruin my political career. The GOP truly is full of idiots.
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 45:
And pedophiles. You forgot that.
What's the world coming to when you can't even trust your own male prostitute?
oZer @ 41:
Then theres the house of representatives.....Dreier, McHenry, Foley,etc...
no longer a proud american @ 43:
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there is so much more to the guckerts story.
a male prostitute who is given a seat in the w.h. press corp.
did he go on trips, when the pres. flew around the country, as a 'member of the w.h. press corp'? were taxpayers footing the bill for george's boyfriend?
why would a member of the press corp be checking in to enter the w.h. at all hours of the day and night? imagine the uproar if a FEMALE (oh my god!) prostitute had made ONE visit to the w.h. during the clinton admin.
makes me go hmm a lot.
i think it's not just other politicians that they have dirty dirt on...maybe some big media ceos.
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and the idea of some 'smut' magazine picking up this ball is a damn good one. it has all the elements of a good read and the info is out there.
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another scandal awaiting exposure is george himself...the decider has always had a thing for the macho dudes. as a cheerleader he used to be around lots of big sweaty athletes in uniforms...wonder how many of them have locker room stories--or are they now in public office themselves?
"He gave me—well, he was tired. He didn‘t want to go down"
Oh my.
moondancer @ 3:
They already suffer from massive defects, no mere semantic distiniction...
What...no reach around?
The GOP Perv of the month.
No one should really be surprised by this piece of news at all.
Let all Hypocrites by exposed. Especially the ones in charge of setting this country's laws. Thanks.
LongTooth @ 24:
George W Bush
jen8933 @ 57:
I've long suspected that W is gay, his drama queen attitude, his love for dressing up as macho archetypes, his "swagger" (seriously, our president has the gayest walk in the free world) He also has a strange habit of gaizing into other world leaders' eyes in search of a "soul mate". Plus there's all that Skull and Bones grabass activity he was reportedly involved in. It all just seems very suspicious.
Life is good - next up, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey "I got 5 rugs for 5 bucks" Graham and the one that would really make me break out the champagne, that punk, Pa-Trick McHenry. Gay Republicans - the gift that keeps on giving.
I love these rapture bunnies gone wild stories. Craig and Curtis 08
The hooker's kinda hot.
I gotta say, in these interchanges, why is it always the whore that has the better conscience and the lawmaker that comes off looking like shit? Damn Republicans.
Mike @ 37:
Lulz, those would be interesting platforms for election runs. Interesting idea.
The funniest part of this video is the unmistakable uncomfortableness of Abrams. And of course we all know that Curtis is going to press charges and maintain his story, because to not do so would imply that he is indeed a homosexual and yet another family values, anti-gay rights hypocrite. May be he and Craig will get an apartment together and live happily ever after. Is this the beginning of a sitcom?!
i'm not comfortable calling all these outed pervs Gay.
Gay is nice.
heterosexuals have all sorts of sexual er, tastes; there is just as much variation within the homosexual population. these guys seem to have a lot of antipathy for the feminine or yin side of the equation. it's ok to desire a macho man dressed in a uniform but to be effeminate is wrong in their eyes.
i speculate, but there is something wrong with calling these hateful bastards Gay.
LongTooth @ 24:
w
John @ 65:
And don't forget Cheney's "man sized safe"...
apeman @ 61:
...of the week...
I don't care what anyone says: The little rent-boy is a hottie. He's not too bright, but then again, he doesn't have to.
RG @ 75:
Enjoy, in the meantime I'm surfing for Elizabeth Kucinich videos.
Orangutan. @ 1:
The cannot be stressed enough. This goes all the way to GWB's white house. Pedophilia is rampant in the halls of power. Could the be part of the Roman Catholoic Influence like in the 30's and 40's?
I'm confused...does being a closeted gay turn you Republican, or is it the other way around?
Annoyed Canuck @ 38:
W
Americans like to claim that they care about the children. If true SCHIP would be passed along with legislation requiring the chemical castration of Republicans. Protect the children, chemical castration for Republicans.
lp @ 21:
I don't think it's quite as clear-cut as stupidity or absurdity, although those are both probably big factors. To me, this sounds more like the symptom of an addiction, on a par with sucking dicks for crack rocks. Nobody in their right mind would give a prostitute their wallet as collateral unless it was the only way they could get their "fix" right then and there, in this case, the "fix" being gay sex.
You must always pay the piper as soon as he washes his pipe off.
Chaotic Modulation
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John Andrew Boehner
I'd put on it any money you want!
Unbelievable. Here's a guy who actively tries to vilify natural human behavior to the detriment and marginalization of homosexuals, resulting in creating the social conditions in which a drama like this can occur, all the while being an active homosexual.
A moment inside Curtis' head = a moment in hell.
(aside) is it just me or are there undeniable similarities between the sexual behavior of Priests and right wing politicians? Maybe because they both require delusions of grandeur and immense self deception. One considers himself the voice of god, the other of god the bureaucrat.
I'm working on a new theory (for me anyway)
Is it possible that these anti-gay gay Republicans are so vehemently opposed (sponsoring legislation, etc.) to gay people not because they're gay, per se, but because they're openly gay?
They've already got a great deal invested (financially, emotionally, socially) in being closet gay, so it's got to annoy them a little that openly gay people in more tolerant communities/states seem to get a "pass"
Maybe it's their way of saying, "No! You can't be openly gay! Not after how hard I've worked at being closet gay all my life!"
I'm the first to admit I don't know, this is just thinking aloud. Nothing else they do makes any sense (not that it's supposed to).
underdog @ 18:
Obviously, the most respectable of these two men is telling the truth.???? And, who might that be? Just becasue you are a "lawmaker", doesn't mean you're telling the truth, or respectable. I'd say, no matter what happend, he's got a lot of splaining to do, and none of it looks good. The toothpaste is out of the tube.
That gay whore not only looks like a moron..it turns out from this interview he actually IS an idiot. And I don't believe for a second he had the wallet as collateral.
Cross Dressing Republicans! Woot!!!
Gandy @ 87:
You should refer to him as the whore that he is and for that matter a girl deserves her pay!