{"id":1521,"date":"2003-04-24T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2003-04-24T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T20:29:00","slug":"gop-chasing-the-youth-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/24\/16\/29\/gop-chasing-the-youth-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Chasing The Youth Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Richard<\/a> Delgaudio<\/a>, a notoriously loud Republican activist fundraiser who raised money to defend felon Oliver North and other notorious Reagan-era miscreants from justice, plead guilty to possessing child porn. This was part of a plea bargain, because the photos showed him having sex with a teenager and he wanted to avoid the stat rape charge, among others. This is the same guy who led the deranged attack on Clinton’s sex life in the mid-90s, calling Clinton “a lawbreaker and a terrible example to our nation’s young people”. Right.<\/p>\n

Delgaudio was charged with taking sexually explicit photographs of a 16-year-old girl. He paid the girl — a single mother and high school dropout — by the hour for photo shoots at the Deluxe Plaza Motel … Delgaudio’s attorneys issued a statement saying that their client “acknowledges the acute moral shortcomings of his conduct and he will continue intense self-examination, and professional and spiritual counseling.” … [He] heads an array of conservative activist groups … He is listed as president of Legal Affairs Council Inc<\/b><\/a>., which had $2.6 million in revenue in 2001 … Delgaudio also is listed as chairman and director of the <\/a>United States Intelligence Council<\/b><\/a> and president of <\/a>National Security Center Inc<\/b><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Well that’s a relief, who knows what would happen if he didn’t carry on his self-examination.<\/p>\n

[He] admitted to taking lewd photographs of a 16-year-old girl he met in East Baltimore’s Patterson Park in 2001. In some of the photos, he was engaged in sex with her … He is president of the Legal Affairs Council, a group that helped pay the legal bills of former Reagan administration officials Oliver L. North and Caspar W. Weinberger after they were charged in connection with the Iran-contra affair … In his pornography case, there was additional evidence that Delgaudio took erotic images of at least one other, younger teen-ager, but that evidence was not admissible in court … [He] was arrested in November 2001 with a book of obscene photographs he had taken of 15- and 16-year-old girls, according to court documents. The teen-agers went with him on several occasions to a hotel on Pulaski Highway, where they had sex and he paid them to pose in erotic positions for his camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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