Paul Babeu is a Mitt Romney election committee co-chairman. He’s also an Arizona Sheriff. He also happens to be running for congress. And he also happens to be gay. Now, he happens to be resigning from the Romney campaign due to a sordid and ugly love scandal.
Sheriff Paul Babeu is under fire after a spat with his male lover was made public. The unnamed lover happens to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico, who threatened to out Babeu as being gay in an attempt to ruin his congressional campaign once their relationship ended. So, to get revenge against his ex-lover, Babeu used his position to have the man deported.
Babeu and Jose (whose last name was not released) met on the website Gay.com in 2006 and had been dating until their recent break-up. Up until recently, Babeu had been publicly known for having a strong stance against illegal immigration and for protecting the Arizona border. He also successfully kept the relationship with the illegal immigrant and his homosexuality a secret for years. But over the weekend he was forced to address the scandal with the following statement:
“I’m here to say that all the allegations that were in the story were untrue – except for the instance that refers to me as gay…That’s the truth – I am gay.”
Needless to say, the Arizona Republican Party is not amused. Nor is the Arizona Sheriff’s Department. Aside from being a congressional candidate within a party that has a staunch opposition to homosexuality and an absolute opposition to Mexicans crossing our border, Babeu knowingly and willingly harbored an illegal immigrant for his own personal gratification.
Suffice it to say, Babeu’s resignation from the Romney campaign is only the tip of the iceberg. Not only were his actions an illegal abuse of power, but the conservative Republican voters of Arizona are prepared to make the jilted and love sick Babeu also reconsider his political aspirations.
<span>"Needless to say, the Arizona Republican Party is not amused. Nor is the Arizona Sheriff's Department." Lol. They're certainy not happy that this clown_and his life on the *DL*_has now been exposed for all the world to see. To say nothing of his same-sex relationship with an ILLEGAL immigrant no less …smh. But frankly I'd bet that more than a few members of the Arizona Repub leadership AS WELL AS his inner circle in the Sheriff's Dept _altogether known as the good ole boyz "WE GOT YOUR BACK" club_ knew darn well what Sheriff Babeu is about. The truth is, when it comes to pathological liars, HYPOCRITES of every sorted ilk and sexually repressed MEN (gay and straight), the Republican Party's CUP runneth over. What a Pathetic lot and a Pathetic party.</span>