Mississippi mayor’s gay shop receipts force him to come out

[Sapphocrat]

Source: PinkNews.co.uk

The mayor of the fourth-largest city in Mississippi has been forced to come out of the closet after the receipts from his expenses claim included a visit to a gay “lifestyle store and sex shop”.

Greg Davis, mayor of Southaven, who was divorced from his wife last year, had been subject to a criminal investigation for allegedly misusing $170,000 when receipts revealed he spent $67 at a gay shop in Toronto, Canada.

Davis, who has three daughters from his marriage and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008 promoting “family values”, also spent thousands of dollars at local liquor shops. ...

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Read more: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/12/16/mississippi-mayors-gay-shop-receipts-force-him-to-come-out/

[eleny]

1. I Googled - Greg Davis family values

Sure enough, that's how he ran for office and evidently acted like a homophobe as well.

A new one to add to the long list of Republican hypocrites.

[formercia]

2. Is there a trend here?

Poppy ran on 'Family Values', while whole families were being exterminated in Central America under his guidance.

[Zorra]

3. I have an old friend, a gay man, that is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst

on the East Coast.

We were talking about his work, and were discussing human nature and behavior and his experiences with people in psychoanalysis, without mentioning any clients specifically of course.

At one point in the conversation looked at me and said,

"Seriously, sometimes I honestly think everyone is gay".

[countryjake]

4. kick

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