Police: Man admits threatening to 'out' lawmaker

[RiverStone]

Source: katu.com/news

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. - A police report released Tuesday said that a La Center politician engaged in consensual sex with a man who then threatened to expose the Republican's gay lifestyle if he was not paid.

The details come from a search warrant affidavit released by Spokane police, who are investigating the alleged extortion attempt against Rep. Richard Curtis while he was in that town last week for meetings.

According to the affidavit, Curtis met Cody Castagna at the Hollywood Erotic Boutique on Friday about 12:45 a.m., and they went back to Curtis' hotel room about 3:30 a.m. and had sex.

Curtis then fell asleep, and Castagna, who is in his 20s, left the hotel with Curtis' wallet, the affidavit said. Later, Castagna called Curtis and offered to return the wallet in exchange for $1,000. Castagna also threatened to publicly expose Curtis' lifestyle to Curtis' wife, the affidavit said.





Read more: http://www.katu.com/news/10896951.html

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The real story of course is not about a person's private sexual orientation, but another example of a rethug hypocrite exposed. So often we see what some people condem in public, they practice in private. Karma can be a wonderful thing...or not.

Curtis has a history of voting against gay rights issues in the State House. In April of this year he voted against Washington's domestic partnership law for same-sex couples. A year before that the lawmaker voted against a gay civil rights bill that would have banned discrimination against gays and lesbians in jobs, housing and insurance.

[Ian David]

1. Is Cody Castagna any relation to The UnaFreeper, Chad Conrad Castagana?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2168024&mesg_id=2168219

[Ian David]

12. Ah, someone else already looked into this...

Grand Old Police Blotter: G.O.P.py Hallowe'en Edition

Cap'n Ed wonders why all the girls are dressing like "skanks" for Hallowe'en instead of, say, dressing as pretend naval officers.

The answer: They're emulating their favorite bigoted Republican lawmakers:

Newly released police investigative reports allege a state representative dressed up as a woman and engaged in an oral sex act at a Spokane Valley adult bookstore before later rendezvousing at a downtown hotel for another sexual encounter with a man now under investigation for extortion, according to today's edition of The Spokesman-Review.

<snip>

Cody Castagna apparently is not related to Malkin enthusiast/anthrax terrorist Chad Castagana, as they have different last names and different hazmat evidence collection protocols associated with their activites.

More:
http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2007/10/grand-old-police-blotter-g.html

[baldguy]

2. Extortion is a crime.

Being a creepy hypocrite is not.

[Quantess]

3. Well the cat's out of the bag now!

The door's open and the light is on, in that closet!

[Javaman]

4. and in the end, he was outted anyway. nt

[Exultant Democracy]

5. Here is Curtis' homepage

http://www.houserepublicans.wa.gov/curtis/

[eridani]

6. Can everybody please write to KATU--

--and tell them that LBGT people do not have any fucking "lifestyles." We have LIVES! Capeesh?

[troubleinwinter]

7. Curtis apparently has the "lifestyle" of being a married man while working against gay rights.

"Curtis has a history of voting against gay rights issues in the State House. In April of this year he voted against Washington's domestic partnership law for same-sex couples. A year before that the lawmaker voted against a gay civil rights bill that would have banned discrimination against gays and lesbians in jobs, housing and insurance.

He's perhaps best known for a proposal that would have banned anti-gay rights protesters at the funerals of U.S. servicemen and servicewomen."

[Diane R]

8. Latest news: He dressed as a women in an adult bookstore.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=12164

Curtis allegedly had encounter at bookstore
Bill Morlin
Staff writer
October 30, 2007


Newly released police investigative reports allege a state representative dressed up as a woman and engaged in an oral sex act at a Spokane Valley adult bookstore before later rendezvousing at a downtown hotel for another sexual encounter with a man now under investigation for extortion.

The suspect in the investigation, identified in police and court documents as 26-year-old Cody Michael Castagna, of Medical Lake, told detectives he was offered $1,000 to have unprotected sex with State Rep. Richard Curtis, a Republican from La Center, which is near Vancouver.

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Curtis and Castagna met shortly before 1 a.m. last Friday at Hollywood Erotic Boutique in Spokane Valley where Castagna was watching porn videos, police investigative reports say.

An employee at the porn store told detectives Curtis has been in the business three times in the last month and is called “the cross-dresser” by employees. The same employee said she was told by Curtis he is gay and likes to dress in women’s underwear.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. The City of Vancouver, Washington,

which is in Clark County, tends to be progressive on equal rights for gays, if I am not mistaken.

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[austinboy]

11. Don't read much do ya?

The same employee said she was told by Curtis he is gay and likes to dress in women’s underwear.

That spells hypocrite in my book.