Kevin Garn (R-UT): I did not have sex with that 15 year old, and I paid her to say so

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman

By The Associated Press
Friday, March 12th, 2010 -- 8:11 am

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/utah-house-gop-leader-paid-woman/

In a shocking statement on the House floor, Kevin Garn, 55, of Layton said he paid her to keep quiet about the incident during his unsuccessful U.S. congressional bid in 2002, but did not have sexual contact with her.

Garn said the woman, who he didn't identify on the floor, has been calling news outlets and that he wanted to be open about the incident that occurred when he was 28 years old, before any stories appeared.

A woman identifying herself as Cheryl Maher told The Salt Lake Tribune that she and Garn were in a hot tub nude when she was 15 years old.

"This has just been a nightmare for me," Maher said in a telephone interview with the newspaper from New Hampshire. "I just want to tell the truth because it's part of the healing process for me."

Garn told The Associated Press early Friday that Maher was the woman and that they were nude during a "spur of the moment" skinny dip. He said she worked for him in a warehouse.

"We sat there and that was it," Garn said.

[FSogol]

1. Scumbag. Part of his "healing process" is getting caught. n/t

[Zywiec]

4. Part of her healing process was blackmail n/t

[DrDan]

2. "we sat there and that was it" - hahahahahahaha

[hobbit709]

3. "Psst, wanna buy a bridge?"

"I'll even throw in a monument, cheap."

[Botany]

11. Although we did not have any sexual contact ..... please

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14661562

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. "...it is apparent to me that this payment was also a mistake..."

Didn't seem like a mistake at the time, because $150K was a pretty cheap way to keep a bid for Congress intact. Plus, since his wife signed off on the payoff, she had apparently completed her own "healing process."

Reading that entire statement from Garn is like watching a hamster run, run, run in his little exercise wheel...cute, but damn...am I glad that I'm not that hamster.

:patriot:

[peekaloo]

5. I've been seeing the commercials.

'Hot Tub Time Machine'.

Is Cusack playing his character? :+

[trumad]

6. I have a 15 year old daughter

and I ever caught her in a hot tub nude with a 28 year old Man--- I'd ground her and kill him.

[Zywiec]

8. Who would raise your daughter while you're in prison? n/t

[trumad]

13. Oh I have my ways...

He'd never knew what hit him. ;-)

[hobbit709]

14. With right jury that could be "homicide in the public interest"

[Zywiec]

22. Ah, yes, good ol' vigilantism

Our country has a long history with your type of justice

[hobbit709]

31. I guess I should have included this

:sarcasm:

[trumad]

33. Fuck with my daughter...

nuff said.

[Botany]

12. No worries he was 30 not 28

He is 55 now and he said it happened 25 years ago.

[panader0]

7. So you've replaced Tom with the Airplane.........

Surrealistic Pillow eh?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. It was Neil @ Madison Square Garden that got replaced...

...yes, Surrealistic Pillow, and Jack Kerouac got moved out of the avatar spot for Lou Reed.

:toast:

[Mari333]

28. Blows Against the Empire

boy does that bring back some wild memories for me.

[theoldman]

9. Here is the other side of the coin.

At 15 the girl was not totally ignorant. She should be ashamed of what she did in her youth. This does not excuse him but it does not make her a heroine either.

[trumad]

15. Of course not...and no one is saying that.

I guess you say the same about Polanski's victim as well.

[Lerkfish]

18. oh yeah, those nasty filthy girls with their evil vaginas, ruining innocent men

who are so virtuous and would remain so if it werent for those jailbait vixens and their whoring around.

they should be ashamed! they should be emblazoned with a red letter for all to see!


(need I add the sarcasm smiley?)

[TommyO]

19. Do not even try to blame a minor for the actions of a thirty year old man.

[Dappleganger]

26. Thank you!

No 15 yr. old should be held responsible for a grown man's basic moral values.

[northernlights]

21. nobody called her a heroine

victim is more like it.

[GoCubsGo]

17. But, but, but... Eric Massa!

Look over here! Eric Massa tickled men!

How long before they sweep this one under the rug?

[City Lights]

25. Has it officially come out from under the rug?

Is this being discussed on all the nooze shows every 30 minutes?

[GoCubsGo]

27. Good point.

I haven't been watching, so I can't say. But, I suspect they won't even pick this one up. Except maybe Lawrence or Rachel.

[City Lights]

32. I can't say either since I'm not watching.

I suspect you're right about Lawrence or Rachel. Or if Fux airs it they'll report that he's a Democrat.

[LeftinOH]

20. Just another 'youthful indiscretion'; he was a mere lad of 28 when this happened..

..so why all the fuss now? :sarcasm:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

23. "a mere lad of 28"....ah, misspent youth.

:rofl:

:toast:

[Botany]

29. No worries he was 30 not 28

He is 55 now and 25 years ago that makes him 30

[Orsino]

24. You omitted the best line:

House members gave him thunderous applause for his honesty and embraced him.

Concealing an indiscretion (or worse) for a quarter-century--and only admitting it when he was about to be exposed--now equals honesty. Another one for the if-this-were-a-Democrat files.

[asjr]

30. Patrick Kennedy is right. This is the sort of thing

that distracts us from war, suicide bombers, lack of health insurance, living from payday to payday, if one has a payday. I keep waiting for someone to come out with a plea for mental distress because of something that happened to a politician while he or she was in kindergarten.