Police video shows Oklahoma lawmaker getting busted in motel room with underage boy

[demmiblue]

Source: The Kansas City Star

Police have released body-camera footage of the night they found former Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph Shortey in a motel room with an underage boy.

Shortey, who was accused of engaging in child prostitution and pornography, pleaded guilty last week to a federal charge of child sex trafficking.

The former two-term Republican senator entered his plea Thursday before U.S. District Judge Timothy DeGiusti in exchange for federal prosecutors dropping three child pornography charges against him.

In the video, Shortey is wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a sandwich, a Bible verse and the words “Now go make me a sandwich.”

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article188197274.html

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[Jim__]

1. If it was a 17 year old girl, I imagine the republicans would vote him back into office.

Family values and all ...

[demmiblue]

2. Also, WTF is this about:

Shortey made headlines in January 2012 when he wrote a bill to ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food, even though he didn’t know of any company that used such a practice.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[Mariana]

7. He knows his constituency.

Writing such a bill would gain him votes in most parts of Oklahoma.

[Nay]

19. Yep! Just writing a bill like that introduces the idea that fetuses are being added

to food, and the utter morons who always vote Republican will start to actually believe that's true.

[shenmue]

15. Yipes

[RandiFan1290]

3. Such gentle treatment from the cops

Did they take him out for Burger King too?

[yardwork]

12. That's what they're trained to do - keep things calm.

It's the cops who don't keep things calm who end up shooting people, or getting shot.

They arrested him. They did it right.

[lame54]

23. I think Randi's point is...

They choose to do it right - depending on the perp

Just as they choose to do it wrong - depending on the perp

[yardwork]

25. We don't have any evidence that these particular cops are racist.

Also, Shortey is American Indian.

[oasis]

4. He'll be doing some time. Merry Christmas Ralph Shortey.

[lindysalsagal]

5. This stuff is so old, and yet, so hard to believe, and yet, so common

I'm so done with american xtianity.

[JI7]

6. if it was a 17 or even 14 year old Girl the republicans would just be ok with it

[cloudbase]

8. As Edwin Edwards said,

"The only way I can lose this election is to be caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy."

[TEB]

9. Im enraged

[rpannier]

10. I'm surprised he didn't claim to be ministering to the boy

[Soxfan58]

11. They found their next senate candidate

[AllyCat]

13. Cannot watch. I am so sickened by these suposed Christians I could scream

These people are so low. Whenever they are trying to support “xtian” values in law, I will show you a sexual deviant.

[7962]

14. I can't help it; his name is "Shortey"? Appropriate. nt

[Glorfindel]

17. I have read that child molesters are called "Short Eyes" in prison and generally scorned

"Short Eyes Shortey" sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

[7962]

18. Yes! I had forgotten that. Think I first heard it on an early "Law & Order" episode. Thanks! nt

[keithbvadu2]

21. "Short eyes"

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=sx8oWuW_KYG6jwPOmaTYDA&q=short+eyes&oq=short+eyes&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.2166.4555.0.7420.13.10.1.1.1.0.243.1179.0j6j1.7.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..4.9.1199.0..0i20i264k1j0i131k1j0i13k1.0.BCONkm6cdkw

[jayschool2013]

16. Let me guess

Not reading the story, just taking a wild guess — Republican, right?

[yardwork]

26. Chaired Trump's local election campaign.

[Initech]

20. Hey, Alt Right pedophile chasers! We caught one!

[keithbvadu2]

22. How republicans mentor young boys - drugs and condoms

How republicans mentor young boys - drugs and condoms

"Shortey told the officers that he was just helping the teenager as a mentor."

[workinclasszero]

24. Republican family values.....again

I bet he goes to church every Sunday too.

[Jarqui]

27. Oh great, another brandishing GOP Senate moral values !

[Bengus81]

28. Shorty---Try Bama next time,they might elect you to Congress....

[hurl]

29. In case...

For those who might not be familiar with the Bible verse on his "Now go make me a sandwich" shirt:

Ephesians 5:22: Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.