The Republican child rapist who was forced to resign from the Arizona state legislature Wednesday, is not some unknown back-bencher no one had ever heard of before. Not at all. Long before anyone knew he was luring young boys under the age of 15 to perform oral sex with $10 bills, David Stringer was getting famous as one of Arizona's worst racist pigs. He has a history of making overtly racist public remarks and he was stripped of most of his committee assignments after he was whining at a meeting of the Yavapai County Republican Men's Forum, that "there aren't enough white kids to go around." He subsequently defended his opinion as a "value judgement" that "wasn't denigrating anybody." As you can probably guess, Stringer is a rabid Trumpist. Republicans never seem to ask themselves why their party always attracts people like Stringer. An equally disturbing question is why do GOP voters keep electing them to public office?Stringer was just reelected to a red district seat centered on Prescott, which is north of Phoenix and west of Flagstaff. It falls into Paul Gosar's congressional district (AZ-04), where Trump had his biggest win in the state, beating Hillary 67.7% to 27.5%, the only district in Arizona where she failed to get over a third of the votes. Gosar is also Arizona's most backward member of Congress-- so I'll leave it to you to imagine what kind of garbage populates AZ-04 (PVI is R+21, the worst in the state), and especially Stringer's fiefdom within it. Here's how he defended himself in regard to the rape charges (submitted at 2:56 a.m. on Saturday).Dustin Gardner reporuted for the Arizona Republic that Stringer is now working to make himself into the victim of this sordid scandal, claiming he was forced to resign by Republican leaders in the state Legislature. In his letter of grievances on Facebook, he noted that "More important than the unfairness to me is the denial of the right of my constituents to elect a State Representative of their choice. The actions of the leadership of our state legislature in forcing me from office are deeply and shamefully offensive to free elections and democratic governance."
While Stringer claims he was never convicted, court records show he accepted a plea deal on some combination of charges and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation.He also was required to seek admission to what appears to be a treatment clinic for sex offenders. But few details of the case are known because it was later expunged.Stringer has said he took a plea of "probation before judgment"-- a Maryland sentence that allows someone to have a charge cleared after completing probation-- on two petty charges to not risk conviction.The Baltimore Police report was obtained by a private investigator working for the House Ethics Committee, which investigated complaints about his sex-crime charges.According to the police report, Stringer was arrested in September 1983, after a boy told detectives that Stringer had met him and a friend in a park a year earlier and asked them to come to his apartment for sex.The boys were under the age of 15 and one had a developmental disability, the report states. Stringer allegedly paid the boys $10 each after they had oral sex the first time.One of the boys told police he had been back to see Stringer, who was 35 or 36 at the time of the alleged encounters, at least 10 times to perform oral sex or penetrative sex, the report states.
That's what happens when you give someone convicted of a heinous crime a slap on the wrist. They don't get the idea that their behavior was unacceptable to society. Tuesday the state House had 31 Republicans and 29 Democrats. Today there are 30 Republicans and 29 Democrats-- as close as it gets.Trumpanzee and Stringer, two racist slobs ruining America
