New GOP Hall of Closeted Pols Nominees

Time to ask yet again why it is that Republican politicians seem to get caught doing naughty things much more than Democrats?

That's tough to answer, but two new cases appear to be two more examples of closeted gays in a party that officially loathes them.

The latest nominees to the GOP Hall of Closeted Pols are Glenn Murphy Jr. and Bob Allen, with a special kudo to Michael Flory, who has been nominated for entry into the Non-Consensual Sexual Assault wing of the hall.

Murphy is chairman of the Clark County (Iowa) Republican Party and recently elected president of the Young Republican National Federation.

On Tuesday, Murphy emailed a letter to media outlets announcing his resignation from both positions because of an unexpected business opportunity that would prohibit him from holding a partisan political office.

It appears that the "opportunity" is a Clark County Sheriff’s Department investigation into Murphy, who ended up at his sister's house after he and a fellow Republican Party operative got drunk, and allegedly gave his chum a non-consensual blow job.

A local newspaper reports that the act was consensual and that Murphy is cooperating with authorities.

Meanwhile, Allen, a Florida State Representative and former John McCain co-chair in the Sunshine State, has come up with a novel defense after being caught trolling for a same-sex encounter at a Titusville Park.

Police say that Allen solicited an undercover police officer and offered to perform oral sex for $20, while Allen claims he was just playing along because the officer and others in the park were . . . uh, large and intimidating black people.

Geez! Allen himself looks pretty large and intimidating himself in the photo above.

More here.

Meanwhile meanwhile, Flory, the former head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans, will be sentenced next month after entering a guilty please to a charge that he sexually abused a colleague during a national convention in Cleveland.

The 32-year-old attorney from Jackson, Michigan, pleaded guilty to sexual battery on the day he was to stand trial for rape.

The teary-eyed college student he overpowered in a downtown hotel room gasped and dabbed her eyes as Flory replied to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Peter Corrigan's question, "Are you indeed guilty?"

"Sure - yeah," Flory said.

More here.