The Gist

More Republican Closet Case Follies

Now it is Washington State legislator Richard Curtis, a Republican who has voted antigay, now revealed to have gone to the police claiming a male hustler tried to extort money from him. We talked about this on the show yesterday, and we'll be going through it today quite a bit, including the press conference by the hustler, Cody Castagna. By Curtis's own admission in the police report he had sex with they guy, though now he's changed his story to the Larry Craig "I'm not gay" defense. And Dan Savage offers us all the details, including women's lingerie and Curtis allegedly paying the guy $1000 bucks for screw him without a condom.