Campaign manager for Ohio Republican seeks bondage sex slave - WTF?!?

[derby378]

Found this on GD - this is too hilarious not to share with you:

On Tuesday, voters in Ohio's 2nd Congressional District will go to the polls and vote in a special congressional election. One thing that seems very clear to everyone following the race is that Republican Jean Schmidt will do anything to win. Anything.

After Jean Schmidt was embroiled in an ethics scandal, she turned right around and gobbled up the maximum contribution from the poster boy for corruption, Tom DeLay.

Since then, her supporters have been Swift Boating her opponent, smearing his service to try to score cheap political points.

Schmidt has focused her campaign on family values, but now it looks like her Campaign Manager may have used the internet to satisfy his bizarre sexual fetishes. If this is true, it is the ultimate in hypocrisy.

Here's how this whole thing came about. People who emailed the Schmidt campaign had their email's bounce back. The details of the bounce back showed that the email [e-mail] actually went to [e-mail]. This is important because it shows that Schmidt Campaign Manager Joe Braun was using his AOL account for campaign purposes.

People googled this AOL account and apparently found that the same email account being used for the Schmidt campaign was also being used for a profile on a BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism -- think of the pawn shop in Pulp Fiction) website used by freaks to meet other freaks.

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/07/time-to-get-scrunchy.html

Music to listen to while checking this out: Osaka Bondage by Naked City (progmom alert):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clipserve/B0000058V5001027/0/104-4261383-8683123

[liontamer]

1. So BDSM is bad?

I think you can focus on family values and still be into bondage.

But I think it is weird that he's using his aol account for a campaign.

[derby378]

3. Have you seen his profile?

I'm not talking about husband-and-wife BDSM teams; I know they're around and perfectly consensual. This guy, however, seems to want a slave that he can play dress-up with before he breaks out the handcuffs and candle wax. This is a little bit different.

[VelmaD]

4. Speaking as a "freak" I have to disagree

"Family values" is all about controlling what people do in the privacy of their bedroom. As long as he's supporting and working for candidates who want to control other peoples' sex lives...then his own better be perfectly vanilla. Only sex inside marriage and for procreation purposes ONLY.

[LynneSin]

5. You can and you can't

You can as long as you're not working for a candidate who's platform is to be derogatory towards anyone who is into BDMN and anything else that isn't mainstream whitebread man-on-top-woman sex for procreation-only sex.

[sniffa]

7. speaking of which

have you seen my profiLe? :evilgrin:

[sasquatch]

8. Is BDSM included in what you do?

:evilgrin:

[sniffa]

10. maybe

:yoiks:

[liontamer]

11. hey! where's my martini?

:spank:

[sniffa]

12. right here

it's extra dirty, just for you. :evilgrin:



i Like your styLe. :loveya:

[Hugin]

2. More hypocracy...

Yet, if it is still successful expect to see more of it.

[aden_nak]

6. For those of you that want to poke around. . .

A trudge through the less reputable stymies of the internet suggests that Joey boy was listing himself at the site ---->

WARNING: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU SEE IF YOU CLICK ON THIS LINK, AND IT MAY TAKE YOU TO SEXUALLY ORIENTED MATERIAL IF YOU CHOOSE TO VIEW THE PERSONAL PROFILES, AS ALL OF THE MATERIAL IS USER CREATED - NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

http://www.collarme.com

It's a relatively legit BDSM-oriented "dating and/or professional listing" baord, as these sorts of things go. If you can handle some nudity, some obscene gestures, and the occasional person who really, really needs to put a shirt on, nothing there should freak you out. I wouldn't call it Pulp Fiction quality, by any stretch. But it sure is a great big steaming pile of hypocrisy from a Family Values campaigner.

[derby378]

9. Can you provide a link to Joe's own individual page?

That would save us all a little hunting and pecking through the sites for "Mistress Dakota," "Mistress Sedona," and "Mistress West Palm Beach."

[aden_nak]

13. You can search by name "deanofcorn" but it has been removed.

As far as I can tell (and as the website indicates) it has now been ganked. The profile is gone. That being said, you can tell from the screenshot that this is the same service. So far GoogleCache has not been of any assistance to me, but I'm seeing what else I can find. Maybe archive.org, if I know the address. The address, based on how their script seems to work, would have been:

www.collarme.com/default.asp?px=deanofcorn

Though it might have referenced another way. I can only do so much snooping around for this while I am at work. I mean, I'm one of the IT guys, but I mostly haev to move through proxies to protect my ass.

[Debbi801]

14. Why does this become a BDSM thing?

Let's look at the things this person has done WRT ethics scandals, swift boats, etc. And yes, the person should have made sure that the email accts were the correct ones so that his mail went to the correct place.

BDSM has nothing to do with not having good family values. GOD that pisses me off. Who the hell gets to make decisionas as to what is "decent" and family value worthy? What right does any one have to decide that what goes on in the privacy of ones home should become gossip fodder? Suppose he likes to dress up in woman's underwear, suppose he is bi-sexual... should any of this determine what kind of political candidate he is? Unless he is doing something illegal, it is none of anybody's business that he is interested in BDSM.

And, I take HUGE insult to this:
People googled this AOL account and apparently found that the same email account being used for the Schmidt campaign was also being used for a profile on a BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism -- think of the pawn shop in Pulp Fiction) website used by freaks to meet other freaks.
I don't consider myself a freak, any more than I would consider a homosexual a freak.

[mongo]

15. Thanks for saying that. n/t

[sniffa]

16. hi there

:hi:

i'm a freak and proud. :bounce: