McCain’s Florida co-chair arrested– you won’t believe why
Filed at 10:22 am, Thursday July 12th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

Here’s a question for you: How much is John McCain’s cash-strapped campaign paying its state co-chairs?

Whatever their salary is, it clearly isn’t enough. McCain’s Florida co-chair Bob Allen (also a Republican state Representative) was arrested yesterday after he was caught offering a blowjob for 20 dollars in a public rest room:

Allen was considered to be acting suspicious by police as he entered and exited the men’s room three times, according to a Titusville Police report. Moments later, he approached the plainclothes officer and offered to perform oral sex for $20, police said.

Allen faces second degree misdemeanor charges. A seven-year House veteran, the term-limited Allen had been considered a likely Senate candidate next year. He also had been named a co-chairman last spring of Arizona Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign team in Florida.

Police said they realized Allen was a public figure after the arrest.

Update: Ironically, this comes just as Fort Lauderdale’s conservative mayor is urging constituents to support his plan to pay $250,000 each for new automated public restrooms which he says would eliminate the apparently all-too-common horrors of restroom-sex:

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle says his city has a problem with “homosexual activity” in public restrooms and he has a plan to stop it with robotic toilets that allow occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door automatically opens.

Fort Lauderdale police officials said male sex in public restrooms is no longer a problem, but Naugle insists the practice persists and has used recent public meetings and e-mails to constituents to raise the issue.

Public restrooms are pickup places for “homosexuals. … They’re engaging in sex, anonymous sex, illegal sex,” he said.