He lobbied for gay rights and opposed Trump - now Seattle's gay pedophile mayor is accused of sexually assaulting minors

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, a nationally famous champion of gay
rights and progressive causes, has been accused by three men of
having sex with them as children.

An unnamed man filed a child sex abuse lawsuit against the mayor
on Thursday, alleging Murray “repeatedly criminally raped and
molested” him when he was a homeless 15-year-old in the 1980s.

The unnamed plaintiff and two other men gave interviews to the
Seattle Times — all telling similar stories about a politico in
his late 20s and 30s, who befriended street kids, paid them and
had his way with them.

“I don't necessarily think that he destroyed my life,” Jeff
Simpson told the newspaper after describing years of molestation
from age 13 on. “But I believe a lot of the problems I have
stemmed from this.”

Murray, a gay rights pioneer-turned-leading opponent of
President Trump's immigration policies, canceled a planned event
after news of the lawsuit broke Thursday and held a brief news
conference the next day.

The mayor, 61, took no questions, but dismissed the suit as
accusations from a “troubled” man.

“These allegations, dating back to a period of more than 30
years, are simply not true,” he said, noting that he still plans
to run for reelection later this year.

Raised in Seattle, Murray was a campaign manager for
Washington's first openly gay state senator in the 1980s,
according to the Associated Press.

Toward the end of the decade, according to the lawsuit, he met a
homeless, drug-addicted 15-year-old on a bus.

“Young and curious, D.H. encountered Ed Murray upon the bus and
developed a friendly interaction,” reads the lawsuit.

This quickly turned into a regular negotiation, it reads, with
the teen “willing to do whatever Mr. Murray asked for as little
as $10 to $20.”

The plaintiff, now 46, was named only by initials in the
lawsuit. But he gave an interview to the Times, recalling: “He'd
be doing certain things, and I'd tell him to stop, and he
wouldn't stop.”

The lawsuit — filed because the statute of limitations precludes
criminal charges after so many years — goes into explicit detail
about the alleged sexual encounters between the two.

It describes the apartment's floor plan. It also describes
intimate physical descriptions of Murray that match the account
of another accuser who did not sue: Lloyd Anderson.

Anderson told the Times that he met the future mayor as a teen
in the early 1980s — when he and Simpson were both living in a
group home in Portland.

Murray invited Anderson home and gave him $30 and some marijuana
in return for oral sex, he told the newspaper.

Simpson told the Times he lived off-and-on with Murray for
years, having sex regularly, and reported the molestation to his
group home manager after an argument in 1984 — though nothing
came of it.

Authorities pursued a sodomy investigation against Murray that
same year, according to the Associated Press, but dropped it.

Anderson and Simpson took their accusations to the media and
Washington lawmakers in 2008, the Times reported — when Murray
was a state senator known for championing same-sex marriage and
other gay rights causes.

[Some balk as Seattle seeks to spend more money on homeless]

The Times explained why it didn't print the accusations until
last week, when claims in the public lawsuit echoed their
accounts:

“Murray denied the accusations to reporters and hired an
attorney, who worked to discredit the men largely based on their
criminal pasts,” the paper reported. “Neither the Seattle Times
nor other media publicly reported the allegations, and Murray’s
political career continued to rise.”

He won the Seattle mayor's office in 2012, wooing liberal voters
with a promise to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

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Trump’s agenda]

This year, Murray became a leading voice in the West Coast
resistance to Trump's agenda — particularly the president's
promise to target undocumented immigrants.

His office did not immediately reply to The Washington Post,
though Murray's personal spokesman called the lawsuit “a
shakedown effort within weeks of the campaign filing deadline,”
according to the Associated Press.

The plaintiff, however, said he never asked Murray for money,
and decided to sue in an effort to heal after breaking a long
drug addiction.

“You don't do no dirt to nobody and think you're going to get
away with it, you know,” he told the Times.

A previous version of this article incorrectly said the Seattle
Times interviewed Murray's accusers after the lawsuit was filed.
A Times reporter told The Post that all three men gave
interviews before the filing.

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