Wednesday, October 31, 2012

"Anti-Gay GOP Arizona Attoney General Caught After Hit and Run Accident While Having Affair

Just yesterday this blog looked at the hypocrisy of an anti-gay marriage supporter in Maine who was arrested as part of a prostitution ring sting.  Now, we have the rabidly anti-gay Attorney General of the State of Arizona who has been caught having an affair with a woman not his wife.  Worse yet, he left the scene of an accident while rendezvousing with his mistress.  Like Donald Fortin in Maine, Attorney General Tom Horne (pictured at right) doesn't really give a damn about "protecting marriage."  He's just a flaming anti-gay bigot and a total hypocrite.  The Arizona Daily Star has details on Horne's affair and hit and run offense.  Here are highlights:

PHOENIX - Tom Horne caused more than $1,000 worth of damage when he clipped another car in a parking garage and just drove off, in order, according to FBI agents, to conceal an affair he was having with his passenger.

Phoenix police records obtained Tuesday include detailed witness accounts by FBI agents who were following Horne, Arizona's attorney general, on March 27 as part of a campaign finance investigation. They said they watched him back his borrowed vehicle into a white Range Rover in the parking garage of a Phoenix residential complex.

FBI agents said that after the fender-bender, Horne and the woman, since identified as Carmen Chenal, who works for Horne, walked off and entered the residential area of the complex where Chenal lives.

The FBI report details how Chenal left the Attorney General's Office that day in a Volkswagen she'd borrowed from Linnea Heap, another employee at the office. Five minutes later, Horne left in his own gold Jaguar. 

According to the report, they met up at a parking garage and emerged several minutes later with Horne, now wearing a baseball cap, driving the Volkswagen.  From there, they went to the residential parking section of a garage at 202 W. Roosevelt St.

FBI agent Grehoski made it clear in several of the interview transcripts released that he believes Horne was hiding something.

"You know, we've heard that Tom is supposed to be honest to a fault," he told Heap during an interview about a month after the accident.  "But he isn't," Grehoski continued. "He's driving someone else's car, crashed, and left the scene of an accident. Having some rendezvous with Carmen in her apartment. I mean, that's not ethical. That's not honest. That's slimy."

And in an interview with Amy Rezzonico, the spokeswoman for Horne's office, Grehoski says outright, "You've got a guy having an affair."

From there, they went to the residential parking section of a garage at 202 W. Roosevelt St.

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