Why did Matt Whitaker prosecute (and fail to convict) this gay state Senator?

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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2018/11/07/did-anti-gay-bias-make-matthew-whitaker-prosecute-matt-mccoy/1923211002/

Before the feds' case against state Sen. Matt McCoy went to the jury last week, the prosecutor made an appeal. Referring to her star witness, she told jurors, "The government is not asking that you take Tom Vasquez home with you for Christmas. We're just asking that you consider his testimony."

A good thing, too. Vasquez, McCoy's former business associate, was so thoroughly discredited during the nine-day trial that you might not want to share an elevator ride with him — much less take him home.

Which is to say that the federal government's case against an Iowa state senator — a rarity to begin with — was based on the word of a man former associates depicted as a drug user, a deadbeat and an abuser of women; a man so shady even his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsors called him "a pathological liar."

Not surprisingly, it took a Des Moines jury less than two hours to acquit McCoy.

But even if the outcome is the right one, the outrage is that the federal government would pour two years and all sorts of taxpayer money ($2,600 of which went right into Vasquez's pocket) into building a case over a private business dispute.

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1. cuz he may be a POS? nt