another family values republican
http://www.newsweek.com/republican-sex-trafficking-child-trump-coordinator-716348Ralph Shortey, a former Oklahoma state senator and county campaign coordinator for President Donald Trump’s campaign last year, will plead guilty to a child sex trafficking charge after being accused of soliciting sex from a 17-year-old boy in March.
In exchange for his guilty plea, government prosecutors have agreed to drop three counts of child pornography against him.
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Court documents show that the two transportation of child pornography charges stem from allegations that Shortey sent videos of a "prepubescent girl,” along with videos of young boys, from his email address in October 2013. The production of child pornography charge came after Shortey was alleged to have convinced a minor to send him an inappropriate photo.
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The two-term former Oklahoma Republican state senator was first elected in 2010 on a “family values” conservative platform. According to the Associated Press, Shortey “routinely voted with his Republican colleagues on bills targeting gay and transgender people, including a measure passed earlier this year that would allow business owners to discriminate against gay people.”