Another Tea Partier caught with his pants down

[tnvoter]

This was reported in the Tennessean Feb. 17:

Local Tea Party co-founder arrested in prostitution sting

A founder of a Sumner County Tea Party group and a Nashville councilman were arrested Thursday and charged with patronizing prostitution.

Matthew Moynihan, a founder of Sumner United for Responsible Government (SURG), and Metro Councilman Brady Banks were caught in a prostitution sting operation after answering an online ad for escort services.

Moynihan, 38, of Hendersonville, went to a hotel at 250 Athens Way and allegedly agreed to have sex with an undercover police officer for $100 for half an hour, according to a police affidavit.


More at this link:
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120217/HENDERSONVILLE01/302170122/Local-Tea-Party-co-founder-arrested-prostitution-sting

[B Calm]

1. I love it when these hypocrites get caught.

[Courtesy Flush]

11. Job creator!

[tnvoter]

2. and the story takes a wierd turn

Apparently the same sting snagged a city councilman whose wife, a Methodist minister, recently gave birth.

Metro Councilman Brady Banks was arrested Thursday afternoon on a misdemeanor charge of patronizing prostitution at a MetroCenter hotel, police said.

Banks, 33, is accused of paying $100 to a female undercover officer in exchange for sex, police said in a news release. The first-term councilman was one of three men arrested during a sting at a hotel on Athens Way.

“Banks met the undercover officer in a hotel room after responding to an escort service ad posted by the police department on the Internet,” the news release said.

Link here: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120217/NEWS03/302170090/Prostitution-sting-snares-Metro-Councilman-Brady-Banks

[edbermac]

9. And this Banks jerk is a Dem.

With a wife who’s a minister, a divinity degree of his own, a beautiful baby boy and a penchant for ending phone calls with the words “Be good,” Metro Councilman Brady Banks had a reputation for clean living and a rock-solid character.

But that image took a hit late Thursday afternoon, when Banks was accused by police of paying a female undercover officer $100 for sex at a MetroCenter hotel. He was arrested at 4:40 p.m. on a misdemeanor charge of patronizing prostitution and released that night after posting a $1,000 bond.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120218/NEWS0202/302180013/Brady-Banks-political-future-unclear-after-arrest-prostitution-sting

And I checked his website, his wife looks way too good for him. What a dick.

http://bradybanks.com/

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Is he friends with this tea party guy?

Did they get busted together or did they just both happen to be there?

[Tom1960]

24. So....

....not sure if you read the entire Tennessean article but it states that Banks is known as a progressive Democrat. Here is the quote from page 1 of the article:

Council elections are nonpartisan, but Banks, 33, is known as a progressive Democrat. He was mentioned recently as a potential successor to retiring state Sen. Joe Haynes.

No man should be paying for sex, clearly. Hopefully he will get the counseling he needs and can put his family life back together again. My guess is that this is not the first time this has happened.

[Tom1960]

25. also...

....full disclosure. I could not get the second and third pages of the article to open in my browser....which means I did not read the full article.

[dballance]

3. Just Laughing my Butt Off

I'm from Gallatin - which is the county seat of Sumner county. When I saw "Sumner County" in the article I just perked right up. These two are probably on the first or second pew every Sunday. Shining examples of good Christian men - LOL.

[HopeHoops]

5. "perked right up"?

[malaise]

26. Probably singing

Stand up standup for Jebus!!!

[brewens]

4. Sumner United for Responsible Governemnt SURG. Of course it is! Priceless, but

it doesn't say if the officer involved was male or female? They are teabaggers so.... LOL! Not that there's anything wrong with that, except for the prostitution part and hypocrasy!

[tularetom]

6. My boyhood home makes the news again

My granddad used to tell me he knew where every whorehouse in Sumner County was and so did all the preachers. I don't know why he told me this (or just how he knew it) because I was like 9 when we moved to CA but somehow that stuck with me.

[gopiscrap]

7. What did you expect?

All these narrow minded tea party fuck wads are like this!!!

[hayrow1]

8. It is so easy to jump to conclusions on something like this.

Those fine God-fearing men probably went to that hotel with a baseball bat and were going to follow in the footsteps of Buford Pusser. Only, unlike Buford, they were going to destroy the sinful after the intercourse part of the deal.

[onethatcares]

10. I don't think it was a "baseball bat" they were carrying

maybe they were just gonna lay hands on the prostitutes and cure them of needing money?

[MisterP]

21. sure it was

a little, 12-inch-one, yes...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. 12 inch?

sounds a little over optimistic to me......

[joeybee12]

12. What really surprises me...

$100 for half an hour...doesn't that seem pretty inexpensive???

[Ikonoklast]

15. I guess it must mean all those guys caught in that prostitution sting are just a bunch of

...cheap fucks.

[WCGreen]

17. Yep....

[Courtesy Flush]

14. "Stimulating" the economy!

[Tsiyu]

16. So THAT'S why Teabaggers don't wanna pay for cops

Now I see... except these two creeps (yes, I know one is a Dem) will probably say they were only "doing research"

[Angry Dragon]

18. They were just out looking for some fine

young women to adopt to provide to them a stable family

[BB1]

19. So what if his wife gave birth to

the gardener's son?
In many places in the world, prostitution is quite legal. It certainly isn't a-moral in many countries the US allies itself with. So why the fingerpointing at this man? He can make his own choices, can he? Does he advocate for prostitution or against it?

[Fawke Em]

22. It's amoral if one is married (and that marriage isn't open).

Yes, he can make his choices and I hope his wife takes him for everything he owns.

[Initech]

20. Oh. Won't somebody please. Think of the children. And such.