Drugs and Prostitution - Republican Offenders 1998

March 15, 2008

South Carolina
Republican state
Treasurer and South
Carolina Chairman of
Giuliani for President,
Thomas Ravenel was
charged with cocaine
possession and was
sentenced to 10
months in jail.

Former South Carolina State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel
is sentenced to 10 months in prison

April 7, 2006

Republican Thomas J. Noonan, deputy mayor of Kirkwood,
MO, pleaded guilty to two counts of the class C felony of
possession of a controlled substance and one count of the
class D felony of attempt to possess a controlled substance.
He was sentenced to rehab.

Court Order

July 27, 2005

Former Mayor of Sterling Heights, Republican Steve Rice was
charged with possession of cocaine. He was sentenced to 18
months probation.

Rice sentenced to 18 months probation

Drug traces found in councilman's home
Undercover officers raid house of former Sterling mayor
Steve Rice

March 1, 2008

Former North Carolina state
legislator, and currently on
the Cabarrus County Board
of Commissioners,
Republican Coy Privette
has been charged with six
counts of aiding and
abetting prostitution. On
August 22, 2007, he
pleaded guilty and the judge
agreed to expunge his
record upon completing 48
hours of community service,
saying he's only concerned
with "making sure the

behavior stopped." Also on Privette’s resume was his
unsuccessful campaign for Governor in 1976 and President of
the Christian Action League.

Most of the higher ranks of the Republican party in North
Carolina have called for Privette to resign from the Cabarrus
County Board of Commissioners. He has chosen not to. Also
on Privette’s resume is his unsuccessful campaign for
Governor in 1976 and President of the Christian Action League.

'Hell has just frozen over'

Despite prostitution plea, Privette stays

8/29/07 Coy Privette says he won't resign

December 7, 2003

Utah State Representative Brent
Parker was arrested for soliciting sex
from an undercover officer posing as a
male prostitute.

Kindness is curbing gay cruising

September 30, 2003

Representative Calvin Bird, a
Republican Legislator, was
busted for soliciting sex ($40)
from an undercover officer in
downtown Salt Lake City. He
was sentenced to a year’s
probation, and completion of the
Johns’ Program.

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