2006 May Become the Year of the Political Sex Scandal

First we have Foleygate and the former congressman's propensity toward 16 year old boys, and now the hits will keep coming. Today there are two more scandals in the news. First from West Virginia:

A state senator said he is evaluating whether to continue his bid for a second term after a Charleston television station aired revealing pictures of him last week.

"My family has urged me not to withdraw from the election and I will work with them to make a decision in the immediate future," State Sen. Randy White, a Webster County Democrat, said in a letter to newspapers in his district.

An apologetic White also wrote that he was "shocked" and "horribly embarrassed" after WCHS-TV aired photos depicting him and at least two other men wearing only body paint.

"The pictures were taken approximately two years ago in private and were stolen from my personal computer," said White, 51, a married father of three. "I am not sure why they were given to the media, but I must assume for obvious political reasons." ...

White did not mention extortion during a brief Monday interview with The Associated Press or in Tuesday's letter. White wrote that he had been working with his family to overcome a "personal identification situation" and to overcome depression for which he has been treated through medication for over a year.

"I am a religious person and have been for some months praying to God to help my family and me through this tragic and troubling episode in my life," the letter said.

At this point he has not come out as a "gay man". And then from New York:

Democrat congressional candidate Mike Arcuri, while serving as district attorney of Oneida County, N.Y., has billed taxpayers for several questionable expenses, including a call to a phone-sex hotline, according to records obtained by HumanEvents.com.

Arcuri, running in New York’s 24th District against Republican Ray Meier, has spent the past 12 years as Oneida County’s district attorney. During that period, his annual expense reimbursements have skyrocketed. From 1998 to 2005, they increased nearly 7,000%.

1998 $763.70
1999 $1,731.37
2000 $2,052.79
2001 $2,753.25
2002 $5,415.80
2003 $33,896.82
2004 $33,756.87
2005 $54,077.74

A close examination of those expense reports reveals that Arcuri billed taxpayers in 2004 for a call to a phone-sex number. ... The phone number appears on Arcuri’s hotel bill. He was attending the New York State District Attorneys Association conference in New York City at the time.

As of now, he has not come out as a "stupid man". This last example may have turned a close race into a safe Republican seat. One less for the Pelosi majority.