Update on Washington State GOP Hypocrite

I posted early this morning about the possibility of yet another GOP gay sex scandal at the state legislature level. Now, more details are coming out and it is getting wilder and wilder. These GOP "family values" types seem to like it really, really kinky! I swear, it'd be hard to make this stuff up if you tried. Here are some highlights from Spokesman Review.com (http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=12164):

Newly released police investigative reports allege a state representative dressed up as a woman and engaged in an oral sex act at a Spokane Valley adult bookstore before later rendezvousing at a downtown hotel for another sexual encounter with a man now under investigation for extortion. The suspect in the investigation, identified in police and court documents as 26-year-old Cody Michael Castagna, of Medical Lake, told detectives he was offered $1,000 to have unprotected sex with State Rep. Richard Curtis, a Republican from La Center, which is near Vancouver.

Castagna, a part-time porn model, has been featured in explicit photo shoots posted on some members-only gay Web sites. He declined interview requests from The Spokesman-Review today, saying only that he’s not an "escort," in response to e-mail messages sent to his MySpace page. A short time later, he restricted access to his MySpace page.

Curtis and Castagna met shortly before 1 a.m. last Friday at Hollywood Erotic Boutique in Spokane Valley where Castagna was watching porn videos, police investigative reports say. An employee at the porn store told detectives Curtis has been in the business three times in the last month and is called “the cross-dresser” by employees. The same employee said she was told by Curtis he is gay and likes to dress in women’s underwear.

During questioning by Spokane Police detectives, Castagna said he saw a man later identified as Curtis in Hollywood Boutique early last Friday “wearing long red women’s stockings and black sequined lingerie.” Castagna later told detectives he saw a 40-year-old man with a cane performing oral sex on the legislator, according to the police reports. Later, the legislator gave his phone number to Castagna before leaving the adult bookstore at 9611 E. Sprague, the reports say.

Once the two arrived in the legislator’s hotel room, “Curtis gave the male $100,’’ before the two engaged in sex acts, the police reports say. Detectives seized pillowcases and bed sheets from the room and surveillance video from the hotel’s lobby, the documents say. After Curtis fell asleep, Castagna is alleged to have left the hotel room with the legislator’s wallet. Later that day, he called Curtis, demanding the $1,000 Castagna claimed he was owed for being a partner in the unprotected sex act, the reports say.

“Curtis woke up alone a little before 7 a.m. and received a phone call from the male,’’ the reports say. “This male told Curtis had had Curtis’ wallet and knew he was a state legislator and married.” “The male claimed to have taken explicit photos of Curtis” while the legislator was asleep, Curtis told detectives. Castagna, however, told police that wasn’t true, that he didn’t have a camera or take pictures of Curtis.

Of course, when not cross-dressing and indulging in gay sex, Curtis is the typical GOP hypocrite. In fact, Curtis was meeting with his GOP colleagues at the Red Lion in Spokane prior to the legislative session and other GOP lawmakers quoted assumed Curtis was staying at that hotel with them. It appears, however, that Curtis was staying across town at the swankier Davenport—closer to Spokane’s trendier nightspots (such as they are) and far from the prying eyes of his buddies in the gay-bashing GOP.

As for Curtis’ record… well, it’s just what you would expect, given the news: Elected to the state House of Representatives in 2004, Curtis has voted like a fiscal and social conservative. This spring, he voted against domestic partnerships for gay and lesbian couples. Last year, he opposed a gay rights bill that banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation….