North Dakota politician accused in peeping incident ends run for office

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/20/north-dakota-politician-accused-in-peeping-incident-ends-run-for-office

A North Dakota politician accused in a peeping incident at a college campus in 2006 announced Sunday he is dropping out of the race for secretary of state.

Will Gardner's withdrawal from the race came two days after the Fargo Forum reported on the 2006 incident in which he was accused of peeping through a window at a North Dakota State University women's dormitory.

"In light of recent events, I have decided to withdraw from the election of secretary of state. This is the best decision for my family and me," Gardner said on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. The 41-year-old Mandan businessman did not immediately return voice or text messages from the Associated Press on Sunday.

Court records show Gardner pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in February 2006 and was given a 30-day suspended jail sentence and fined $225. The Forum reported the charge stemmed from an incident a month earlier in which Gardner, who was 29 at the time, was arrested for allegedly peeping in a women's dorm while working as a webmaster at the university's libraries.

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This is "political correctness" run amock. How else is a 29 year old supposed to meet women!!!

[LisaM]

1. If he was caught, charged, and fined 12 years ago.....

has he paid his dues? I don't know all that much about this case, but what's the point of a criminal justice system if nothing is ever in the past?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. I get that. But we're talking about a party that doesn't think that applies to the rest of us. I

personally think felons (not that this was a felony) need to get the right to vote after paying their debt to society. But again, this guy belongs to a party that doesn't (by and large).

[LisaM]

3. And 29 is a bit old to act that way, too.

I don't have any information to see how he's behaved since, either.