Gay Arizona sheriff’s polil star tarnished | The Seattle Tim

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• ARIZONA GAY SHERIFF PL BAB 'DATED MALE STUNT WHEN HE RAN TROUBLED BOARDG SCHOOL'
• REPUBLIN SHERIFF PL BAB, OUTED AS GAY BY EX-LOVER, RUNNG AGA FOR CONGRS
• ARIZONA SHERIFF FACG LONG ODDS AFTER GAY OUTG
• DAVE HUTCHSON POISED TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF IN MIDWT
• GOP CANDIDATE AND AZ SHERIFF ADMS HE’S GAY AFTER ACCATNS SURFACE THAT HE DATED AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
• GAY SHERIFF PROMPTS TRIGUG QUTNS
• PL BAB, ARIZONA SHERIFF, ALLEGEDLY THREATENED GAY MEXIN EX-LOVER WH DEPORTATN (VIDEO)
• GAY ARIZONA SHERIFF’S POLIL STAR TARNISHED
• GAY ARIZ. SHERIFF FENDS OFF NEW ATTACK -- OM SISTER

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.

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

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.

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.

"But, on Saturday, Bab's nservative image took a beatg as he was forced to nfirm publicly that he is gay and was volved a relatnship wh a Mexin immigrant who claims the sheriff threatened to have him ported if he revealed their ni any wrongdog, and has vowed to ntue his battle for the GOP nomatn an extremely nservative ral ngrsnal district.

ARIZONA SHERIFF FACG LONG ODDS AFTER GAY OUTG

Ron Gould says Bab is sure to lose major support among the fay-valu voters who oppose gay prevly avoid a public stance on gay rights, but me out favor of them on Saturday. "Bee is a Republin primary a nservative district, 's likely that the thg that hurts him the most is that he was a gay relatnship.

"Bab's acknowledgment that he is gay me after a story the Phoenix New Tim, an alternative weekly magaze that quoted a former lover as sayg Bab threatened his immigratn stat if he revealed their nied claims he tried to threaten the man, a former mpaign volunteer.

DAVE HUTCHSON POISED TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF IN MIDWT

It also posted a cell phone self-portra of a sg Bab his unrwear and another of what appears to be the shirtls sheriff a bathroom, posted on a gay datg web se. Dave “Hutch” Hutchson on Wednday appeared to have narrowly feated three-term cumbent Sheriff Rich Stanek Hennep County, Mnota, all but guaranteeg his tle as the first openly gay sheriff the an credibly tight race, the 39-year-old veteran police officer clared an unofficial victory over Stanek, a Print Donald Tmp supporter whose crics say he was too amenable to feral immigratn early Wednday morng, 100 percent of the unty’s preccts had reported their electn rults, suggtg Hutchson had won roughly 2, 300 more vot than Stanek, a former Mnota Hoe some lol media outlets have lled the race for Hutchson, an official wner likely won’t be certified by the Mnota secretary of state’s office until Nov. 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. 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. "This may be a lm tt, " said Patton, not jt of whether a gay man n survive nng for Congrs a eply nservative district a red state but, more so, of the ntrast between how far society has e — and still has to go.

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

"I have many, many, many iends my life that are gay and have been gay, and I don't have issu wh .

GAY SHERIFF PROMPTS TRIGUG QUTNS

"A day later, Bab found himself before microphon and reporters, nyg the threats but acknowledgg, wh stark ndor, that he is gay.

Are absolutely pletely false except for the issu that refer to me as beg gay. " The New Tim also published an old profile of Bab's om a gay datg webse showg another shirtls photograph, wh Bab's face mostly cut, on Friday, The Arizona Republic reported that the U.

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

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GAY ARIZONA SHERIFF’S POLIL STAR TARNISHED

While some exprsed disappotment and said that the sheriff had lost their support or brand him a hypocre for beg gay and Republin, the vast majory supported Bab — om lols who know him to out-of-staters clarg that they, too, are nservative and gay.

"First gay man I n agree wh, " read one post.

Gay or straight.

GAY ARIZ. SHERIFF FENDS OFF NEW ATTACK -- OM SISTER

He ntu to make mpaign appearanc, cludg a speech at a Lln Day dner the same day he admted beg gay.

Phoenix polil nsultant Chuck Coughl scribed the district as one of the most right-leang the state — wh a ral, olr mographic that do not "lend one to believe that there is a high gree of likelihood" of Bab wng the ngrsnal seat or even stayg the race for the long have been no openly gay Republins Congrs sce 2006, when another Arizonan — U.