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• REPUBLIN SHERIFF PL BAB, OUTED AS GAY BY EX-LOVER, RUNNG AGA FOR CONGRS
• ARIZONA GAY SHERIFF PL BAB 'DATED MALE STUNT WHEN HE RAN TROUBLED BOARDG SCHOOL'
• PL BAB, THE SUDNLY OPENLY GAY PAL COUNTY SHERIFF, VOWS TO CONTUE CONGRSNAL RUN, SERVE OUT REMAG TERM AS SHERIFF -- DPE MEXIN EX-LOVER'S INSISTENCE THAT SHERIFF'S CAMP THREATENED HIM WH DEPORTATN
• PL BAB, ARIZONA SHERIFF, ALLEGEDLY THREATENED GAY MEXIN EX-LOVER WH DEPORTATN (VIDEO)
• A GAY REPUBLIN, THE CHILD ABE HE SANCTNED, AND THE HOMOPHOBIA ED TO FEND HIM
• GOP CANDIDATE AND AZ SHERIFF ADMS HE’S GAY AFTER ACCATNS SURFACE THAT HE DATED AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
• ANTI-IMMIGRATN SHERIFF PL BAB’S GAY AFFAIR WH UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT
• GAY CONSERVATIVE

REPUBLIN SHERIFF PL BAB, OUTED AS GAY BY EX-LOVER, RUNNG AGA FOR CONGRS

The last time Republin Pal County Sheriff Bab ran for Congrs on an anti-illegal immigratn platform, his Mexin lover outed him as a gay man and acced him of blackmail a bombshell tale reported first New Tim. Bab spent his first few years office here as a closeted gay man.

ARIZONA GAY SHERIFF PL BAB 'DATED MALE STUNT WHEN HE RAN TROUBLED BOARDG SCHOOL'

Outed Arizona gay sheriff and ex-Romney ai 'dated teenage male stunt when he ran troubled boardg school a ago'Republin Pal County Sheriff Pl Bab nfirmed this month he's gay New allegatns stem om when he was head of Massachetts schoolDeni sexual relatnship wh 17-year-old boy while he was headmasterAlso ni allegatns that he threatened portatn of ex-lover 'Jose'Dropped out of Romney mpaign to foc on own ngrs mpaign It’s been a by fortnight for this Arizona sheriff and Mt Romney ai, who has e out as gay, nied threateng to port his ex-lover to Mexi and promised to ntue his bid for Pal County Sheriff Pl Bab, 43, is fightg allegatns he dated a 17-year-old male stunt while he was head of the now-closed DeSisto School Stockbridge, Massachetts, a boardg school ed ntroversial disciple methods such as ‘sheetg’, which forced stunts to remove their cloth and wear only a sheet, acrdg to former stunts and state rerds. Now-closed: DeSisto School Stockbridge, Massachetts allegedly ed ntroversial disciple methods such as 'sheetg', which forced stunts to remove their cloth and wear only a sheet Ser accatns: Bab, pictured wh Senator John McCa 2010, admted that he was gay this month Although eight former stunts claim Sheriff Bab had a relatnship wh the stunt, both men ny any appropriate or sexual bond at the school.

The claims e after the notorly anti-immigratn ai to Republin printial ndidate Mr Romney left the mpaign after he was acced of threateng to port his ex-gay lover to Mexi.

He said all the accatns the alternative weekly newspaper were ‘absolutely false, except to the issu that refer to me as beg gay’ and arose to mar his chanc of nng for ngrs. Racy profile: The Phoenix New Tim says this is the datg profile of Bab on gay se 'Unterred': Bab, who left his volunteer posn Romney's mpaign, will ntue to n for ngrsAn attorney for Jose didn't immediately return msag om MailOnle earlier this month over this. Pal County Sheriff Pl Bab turned a nearly hour-long prs nference to addrs allegatns of threats that he and his attorney ma to Bab's ex-boyiend to a para of people fendg his right to be gay.

PL BAB, THE SUDNLY OPENLY GAY PAL COUNTY SHERIFF, VOWS TO CONTUE CONGRSNAL RUN, SERVE OUT REMAG TERM AS SHERIFF -- DPE MEXIN EX-LOVER'S INSISTENCE THAT SHERIFF'S CAMP THREATENED HIM WH DEPORTATN

The New Tim and lol Fox News affiliate KSAZ also published photos which appear to be of a barechted Bab, which had been upload to a profile allegedly belongg to the sheriff on the gay datg webse Though he acknowledged Jose was a volunteer who helped on his first mpaign for sheriff 2008, Bab -- who is currently nng for Congrs his home state -- cled to rpond to qutns about whether the pair had a romantic relatnship, sayg he would not discs his personal life, acrdg to the Arizona Republic. "Check out some other gay polil sndals below: Before You Go10 Gay Sex SndalsPopular the CommunyYou May Like.

Acrdg to the Log Cab Republins (LCR), a gay Republin group, this new ad om the Democratic Congrsnal Campaign Commtee (DCCC) attackg Arizona Republin ngrsnal ndidate Sheriff Pl Bab is homophobic:. The ad don’t mentn that Bab is gay, but stead foc on a sndal regardg a youth treatment boardg school, known for s torturo ab of the kids stayg there, that he ed to oversee. The group even seems willg to ploy anti-gay stereotyp an attempt to fend his reputatn.

Bab nied makg the threats, but did eventually acknowledge the relatnship (and msy break-up) that he’d had wh Oroz, g out as gay and rigng as -chair of Mt Romney’s printial mpaign Arizona. Attack ads don’t get more homophobic than this. Not only is this mercial factually accurate, but shows jt how low the DCCC is willg to go to stop a gay Republin om beg elected to Congrs.

PL BAB, ARIZONA SHERIFF, ALLEGEDLY THREATENED GAY MEXIN EX-LOVER WH DEPORTATN (VIDEO)

Democrats love to say they support the LGBT muny — unls you’re a gay Republin, which se floatg the specter of gays as child predators and viants is fair game. It was only the Log Cab Republins that nnected the ad and the ab at the school to Bab’s sexualy and “the specter of gays as child predators and viants.

It is th LCR, not the DCCC, that is perpetuatg the archaic stereotyp about gay people an attempt to fend a gay Republin they sperately want to see elected. (After this story was published onle Febary 17, Bab and DeRose nied Oroz and his lawyer's threat-of-portatn allegatns, and — unr prsure — the sheriff me out as a gay man and admted that he'd had an affair wh Oroz. He says he once wrote a ment on Cho Valley eNews (on which Bab had an acunt), where gay men arrange sexual liaisons.

Durg the prev year, Oroz says, Bab e-mailed explic photographs of himself to an anonymo man he met on the gay webse.

A GAY REPUBLIN, THE CHILD ABE HE SANCTNED, AND THE HOMOPHOBIA ED TO FEND HIM

" He lled himself "studboi1, " scribed himself as "str8 actg, hard workg and loyal, " and said he was openly gay, lookg for iendship and "1-on-1" sex.

GOP CANDIDATE AND AZ SHERIFF ADMS HE’S GAY AFTER ACCATNS SURFACE THAT HE DATED AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT

Openly gay Tucson state Reprentative Matt Hez was one of two Democratic lawmakers who broke ranks wh the party March 2011 and voted to give Bab $5 ln to bat borr vlence. Arizona is currently the midst of a very fiery sex sndal as Pal County Sheriff Pl Bab, a well-known anti-illegal immigrant proponent and Republin Congrsnal ndidate, has been exposed as gay by a source tellg the Phoenix New Tim that he was Bab’s ex-lover, and that Bab threatened him wh portatn several tim when he refed to promise to keep the affair unr wraps. Bab rpond by admtg a prs nference that he was gay, steppg down the Romney mpaign, and nyg the mors that he threatened anyone wh portatn.

ANTI-IMMIGRATN SHERIFF PL BAB’S GAY AFFAIR WH UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT

José provid text msag and the above photos, as well as an Adam4Adam (thk OKCupid’s ls self-important gay ) profile. Gay culture and polics blog Towleroad reports that the uple met through a (’s ls self-important gay ) profile. Today he held a prs nference where he stepped down om Romney mpaign duti and nfirmed that he was gay, but nied the mors about José beg illegal– or at least that he had no knowledge of his legal stat– or him threateng to port anyone, statg: “’s blatantly, pletely false.

Acrdg to a story broken this week the Phoenix New Tim, Bab spent much of the last a long-term gay relatnship wh an undocumented immigrant named Jose, whom Bab threatened wh portatn after their relatnship end. Jt a day and a half ago, though, Pal County Sheriff Pl Bab – an outspoken nservative and champn of immigratn enforcement – me out as gay.

This week, a “newspaper” known to Arizonans as a sensatnalist rag lled the Phoenix New Tim prted a ont-page story about a man known only as Jose who told a sordid tale of a srned gay lover and the object of his affectn, who apparently cheated. Pictur of the two together as well as text msag and screen shots of Bab’s profile on a gay datg webse – along wh photos sent privately, not meant to ever be published – were add as proof that at least some of the allegatns were te.

GAY CONSERVATIVE

At some pot 2010, Jose began to spect that Bab was cheatg on him and set up a fake profile on a gay datg webse to lure Bab to tellg the tth. Jose admted to postg damagg ments on news stori about the Sheriff, even at one pot sayg pot-blank that Bab was gay and mataed a profile on a gay datg webse.

I knew for a long time that Bab was probably gay. My gaydar is famo among my iends; I knew, even though I never would have said so, that he was likely gay om the begng. As much as I would like the gay nservativ servg silently polics and public safety would e out, I also believe is their right to keep quiet.