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Saturday, 13 March, 2010
Utah Stunned
(with comments)
It doesn't take much to stun Utah: GOP leader's skinny-dip confession stuns Utah.
A late-night confession by Utah's House majority leader about sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this conservative state's political establishment but has not prompted calls from party leaders for him to resign.
Rep. Kevin Garn, 55, acknowledged the indiscretion late Thursday immediately after the Legislature adjourned for the session. He said he paid the woman, Cheryl Maher, now 40, $150,000 to keep quiet about the episode when he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2002.
"Although we did not have any sexual contact, it was still clearly inappropriate - and it was my fault," said Garn, of Layton.
Scandals of this nature are rare in Utah politics, where there's a heavy Mormon influence, so the fallout Friday was pronounced.
- By wally the duck. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @10:31am:sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago
He probably sat nude with a major in one, too, but that's another story. - By Doug. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @10:48am:I am shocked, shocked to find out that tickling is going on in GOP hot tubs.
- By Patricio. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @10:54am:Joseph Smith would have just made her wife #27.
- By Lee. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @11:23am:We don't care how you bring'em, just brigham young.
- By Bisbonian. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @11:31am:I am also stunned. Stunned that I chose the wrong career path. If I had known you could make that kind of money for sitting in a hot tub with some future politician, I might have skipped the whole flying thing.
Nah. - By joe. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @11:50am:let me get this right.he's in a hotub with a naked young hotty and does....nothing.so what exactly is he apologizing for?
- By Bisbonian. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @11:53am:
so what exactly is he apologizing for?
a)being a doofus
b)he gave her 150 grand for something.... - By deaudonnee@att.net. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @12:28pm:I find this hilarious.
- By Evil Klown. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @01:05pm:
...so what exactly is he apologizing for?
The clairvoyant part of me says the lady came to him for more money and he called a halt to it by "confessing."
Then I read the article: In the last few days the woman was calling around to various Salt Lake City newspapers to tell the story.
It's probably been weighing on her conscience and she just wanted to get it off her chest ... make a clean breast of it. I'll bet she feels MUCH better now. I sure hope nothing bad happens to her. - By Bisbonian. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @01:07pm:Bingo, EK.
- By joe. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @01:23pm:imagine apologizing(and paying hush money) for living in such a repressed place as utah.good thing they wer'nt caught playing paddycake(a la roger rabbit).
- By roger but not the one on orly's blog. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @01:37pm:House Majority Leader Kevin Garn resigns amid hot tub scandal - just up on the Salt Lake Tribune page
- By Dave Kelly. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @01:46pm:A verbal contract is a contract. The lady should be sued for breach of contract. Or return the money.
- By chazunga. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @01:52pm:But how will this affect the Romney juggernaut?
- By Bisbonian. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @02:17pm:
The lady should be sued for breach of contract.
Hehehe...good luck with that!
But how will this affect the Romney juggernaut?
Does he have a hot tub? Anybody got any cute, under-age friends, and a camera? - By Shel-tone. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @02:44pm:A republican caught with a 15 year old GIRL?!!!
That is a stunner. - By Evil Klown. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @02:51pm:
House Majority Leader Kevin Garn resigns ...
Whew, they got rid of the one guy with a "skeleton" in his closet. I feel much better. Now they can go on with business as usual knowing everyone else has a sterling past.
I think this is a fair solution. The very bad man lost his career. I think EVERY person who has done something like this (and all hypocrites) should lose their career too. Everyone should nod their heads and not make a peep. - By Doug. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @11:18pm:I wonder if the $150,000 was to keep it out the public eye or to keep his wife in the dark.
Garn was already married to current wife Tanya at the time of the incident and Maher was an employee of his company. - wikipedia


A
late-night confession by Utah's House majority leader about sitting nude in a
hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this conservative state's
political establishment but has not prompted calls from party leaders for him
to resign.