More on the Republican DirtBall Former Missouri House Speaker

[Harry Hope]

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Thu., Dec. 24 2009

Santa's shakedown man, Krampus, should visit ... Rod Jetton

By David Martin in Martin

We knew Rod Jetton, the former speaker of the Missouri House, was a
dirtball.

Jetton, a Republican, worked as a political consultant at the same
time wielded the gavel.

His reign is reportedly at the center of an FBI investigation into
"pay-to-play" deals in Jeff City.

But then came his arrest on suspicion of felony assault, and words
like "scumbag" felt inadequate.

In November, a woman told police in Sikeston, Missouri, that Jetton
had come to her home bearing wine.

She says Jetton hit and choked her as she faded in and out of
consciousness during intercourse.

Jetton will be arraigned in January.

Before then, Krampus, the demon who accompanies Santa Claus,
delivering something more behavior-modifying than a lump of coal,
should pay Jetton a visit.

See, Jetton's already of guilty of hypocrisy.

While in office, he liked to trumpet his commitment to "family
values."

In fact, he replaced a committee chair who, after the U.S. Supreme
Court stuck down a ban on gay sex, inserted language into a crime ball
undoing Missouri's prohibition on same.

Jetton said the committee chair, Scott Lipke, had been "deceitful."

But Jetton also wanted homosexuality to remain criminalized, at least
in spirit.

He called gay sex "deviate" [sic] in an op-ed piece detailing the glee
in he took in demoting the bill's handler, state Rep. Lipke.

Of course, a commitment to Christianist decency was just something
Jetton liked to toss out to the Gomers who comprise the voting
majority in rural Missouri.

Jetton and his wife divorced earlier this year.

And based on the available evidence, he'll be happy if a judge or jury
comes to the conclusion that the night in Sikeston consisted of casual
sex that needed better ground rules.

Just look at the fucking guy.

His official state portrait (right) screams, "Remember the biggest
asshole in your high school? I'm that creep, times seven."

If Krampus has time, he should also visit the Missouri Republicans who
chose Jetton to serve as their speaker.

If he's their idea of good leadership, they can't be trusted with a
thrift-store Parcheesi set, let alone the the lives of 5.9 million
people.

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Harry