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My oh my, where to begin today.
Teamwork is the key to tracking down information on the Richard Curtis story. He's the State Representative from Southwest Washington that ended up in the middle of a sex scandal while attending a Republican Party meeting in Spokane.
KREM is our sister station in Spokane and since the story is really playing out on two fronts we are lucky to have them. KREM reporters are able to track down documents and talk with officials investigating the case. Our reporters of course are bringing in more personal details from the 18th District in Southwestern Washington.
Here's the basics if you are playing along. According to search warrant documents Curtis met a man at an erotic video store and had sex at a hotel with him. The man reportedly demanded a thousand dollars or he would tell Curtis' wife. Curtis called police to say he was being blackmailed. That is the tame stuff. I'll leave the explicit accusations for you to read on your own.
Curtis also says he did not solicit anyone for sex and is not gay. There seems to be a lot of that going around.
You remember those where's Waldo books? Well now we are looking for Bernie Giusto.The Department of Public Safety, Standards and Training is investigating whether the sheriff lied to the public about what he knew of Neil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl when Goldschmidt was Mayor of Portland.
Giusto has claimed he'd only heard rumors but a preliminary report says that's not true. We'd of course love to hear from him but the closest we got today is a sheriff's spokesman who said no comment on Bernie's behalf.
I did have a chance to talk with Former first lady Margie Goldschmidt on the phone. She says contrary to the preliminary report she did not tell investigators that Bernie Giusto knew details about the abuse while Neil Goldschmidt was still in office.
Stay tuned and as always,
Thanks for watching.
Tracy Barry
There seems to be a lot of this "I'm not gay" stuff happening within the GOP. From reading all the documents and police reports it is very obvious that Richard Curtis is lying to cover his own crap. I personally don't believe that he was getting blackmailed I think that is his way of covering his tracks. This reminds me of the scandle with Ted Haggord the defrocked preacher from Colorado. I am glad that the young man who is accused of blackmail has a legal representation. I think what Richard Curtis is doing to this young man is nothing short of abuse by using his "status" to try and get away of his lies. He (Richard Curtis) should be thrown out of the Legislature and face multiple charges starting with soliciting for sex. All his lies will catch up with him and cause nothing but more pain to his family because he decided to lie about everything. Why is it that every time a republican politician gets caught having sex with a member of the same sex they ALWAYS lie about it until the truth is exposed? it is only at that time these people who have been caught start to tell half truths? Former mayor of spokane West, Idaho senator Larry Craig, and now Richard Craig. This type of thing is becoming too familiar. Let us hope that Craig's family can heal from all of this. BUT in order to do that Richard Craig needs to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth.
I guess I am still trying to figure out why this is Top Headline news, and why the media is lending a hand to an official, or anyone for that matter, to have to resign for this. The story that I am not seeing here, is the arrest of the person trying to blackmail Curtis. That should be the only new. The facts of what Curtis may or may have not have done, what his sexual preference may or may not be is not in any way News at all. What I am seeing is that the media harassing this official�s family by making this so public that he feels he needs to resign to protect his family.
The growing concerns from the public on the type of so called News that is being reported today should be taking hold in the media eyes and ears by now. These type of stories have absolutely no reason to be on your program in the manner it was reported.