Nude Pictures Of Mayor's Gay Chat Buddies May Be Made Public

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/100905spokane.htm

Spokane Mayor Jim West's city-owned computer contains 1,800 files, at least half of them photos, that he doesn't want the public to see, according to new court filings.

"From what I've been told by a city attorney, the mayor's computer contains pornographic pictures and probably very sexually descriptive correspondence with people he met on chat lines with his City Hall computer," City Councilwoman Cherie Rodgers told The Spokesman-Review for a Saturday report.

West declined to comment on his decision to challenge release of the files.



WHY WOULD YOU PUT PORN ON YOUR WORK COMPUTER?????????

stupid stupid STUPID!!!!!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Hooo boy

Not a good day for the Mayor.

Yeah, work computer...stay clean. That's why you buy your own freaking computer!

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. "Should be considered information available to the public"

From the article:

According to the city's written policies, data on city-owned computers "should be considered information available to the public." In many cases, improper use of government or business computers can lead to termination, the policies say.

West, who faces a recall election Dec. 6, has said he didn't use his City Hall computer to visit gay Web sites. That contention appears to be contradicted by an index of his computer files supplied by the city attorney's office.

The index "demonstrates that the Web site connections initiated from (West's) city computer include pictures and-or images," according to a legal brief by newspaper attorneys Duane Swinton and Tracy LeRoy. "Based on discussions before the court on Tuesday, the content of the records at issue involves images and-or pictures of young men from Internet sites such as Gay.com."

During some 20 years in the State Legislature, West was one of the most vocal, vitriolic homophobes in government. Gotta love those Republican family values!

[Jade Fox]

3. Yes, the sheer stupidity of it....

is amazing.

The stuff these Republicans think they can get away with never fails to
bogle the mind.

Admittedly, I thought the same thing about Clinton: Here is a guy who
wanted to be President his whole life, then blew it (ahem) for a blow
job. That's just dumb.

[TlalocW]

4. Interesting link I found on Jimmy...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/223201_west06.html

Another gay republican who has championed anti-gay agendas.

TlalocW