Saturday, February 10, 2018

Anti-Hooker Lawmaker Busted for Sex with Escort


Good!

I am glad to see power-freak lawmakers get caught up in their own laws.

A Utah lawmaker, GOP Rep. Jon Stanard, who voted for tougher penalties for prostitution has resigned amid allegations that he used taxpayer dough to pay for hotel rooms to hook up with an online escort, reports The Daily Mail.

Call girl Brie Taylor said Stanard paid her $250 for sex twice at the Fairfield Inn in Salt Lake City.

House chief of staff Greg Hartley told the Associated Press that the married Stanard with three children — who resigned Tuesday night — was reimbursed for two hotel stays while he was attending legislative meetings at the state capital.

Last year, he voted in favor of stricter laws on prostitution, including hiking the penalty for soliciting sex to $2,500.

“I am a strong advocate for conservative family values. I am pro-life, as well as for traditional marriage,” Stanard says on his website.

The moral question aside, Dr. Walter Block taught us a long-time ago that from a libertarian perspective, there is nothing wrong with prostitution since it is a mutual non-coercive exchange.

The only evil here is the lawmakers putting restrictions and penalties on such exchanges. they are the ones that should be punished, and how appropriate for them to be punished by their own laws.

  -RW

10 comments:

  1. That is always the case isn't? People who generally have an obsession with a particular vice, usually harbor that desire.

    Another funny about Utah in general, a few years ago Pornhub said that the state with the most traffic on their website came from Utah.

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  2. --- The only evil here is the lawmakers putting restrictions and penalties on such exchanges. they are the ones that should be punished, and how appropriate for them to be punished by their own laws. ---

    It would certainly be fitting, but unfortunately current law does not allow for the deportation of anti-immigrant and xenophiobic politicians - yet.

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  3. Having lived my entire life in Utah, this comes as no surprise.

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    1. Do men in Utah have a particular thing for hookers?

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    2. Ha ha. Probably no more than men in other states.

      I should have been more clear: Utah politicians have always acted as though there was one set of rules for them and a different set for "the masses". Again, probably not any different than anywhere else, but I probably notice it more than many here who seem to hold their political leaders in high esteem.

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  4. Wait, I thought laws kept people from doing things.

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  5. The writing is a little ambiguous. Was she $125 each, for $250 total, or $250 each?

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    1. Ha! I hope she pays the price of civilization on her earnings (taxes), whether hi or lo. I guess he could have been gifting her both money and his righteousness.

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  6. I am sure his defense will be just like all the politicians caught viewing child pornography. He was "just dong research" to write better prostitution laws!

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