Trick No Treat
Lawmaker gets early start on Halloween:
SPOKANE — State Representative Richard Curtis says he’s not gay, but police reports and court records indicate the Republican lawmaker from southwestern Washington dressed up in women’s lingerie and met a Medical Lake man in a local erotic video store which led to consensual sex at a downtown hotel and a threat to expose Curtis’ activities publicly.
A search warrant unsealed Tuesday morning disclosed that State Representative Richard Curtis (R - La Center) had sex in his room at the Davenport Tower with a man identified as Cody Castagna, 26, of Medical Lake, who he met at the Hollywood Erotic Boutique on October 26th.
Curtis, according to a search warrant unsealed Tuesday, went to the Hollywood Erotic Boutique on East Sprague on October 26th at approximately 12:45 a.m. The store clerk, who had talked with Curtis, referred to him as “The Cross-Dresser” and said that during their conversations he confirmed he was gay and was married with children at home.
During his visit to the video store Curtis was observed wearing women’s lingerie while receiving oral sex from an unidentified man in one of the movie viewing booths inside the store.
Afterward he met Cody Castagna, and they talked about getting together at Curtis’ hotel room to have sex. Curtis left Castagna his cellphone number and went to Northern Quest Casino and receiving a call from him around 3 a.m., and planned to get together at the hotel a short while later.
It gets a little more funky after that. Jumping ahead.
Around 7 a.m. he called Curtis and told him he knew he was a member of the Washington State House of Representatives and was married, that he had taken pictures of Curtis with a camera on his cellphone and he offered to return the wallet in exchange for $1,000 …
Curtis, during an interview with a Spokane detective, claimed that he gave Castagna $100 for “gas money” and insisted that the money was not payment for sex. During that phone conversation he claimed he only had $200 and left the money in an envelope at the front desk at the Davenport Tower for Castagna in exchange for the return of his wallet.The attempt to get his wallet back proved unsuccessful as Castagna called Curtis back later on the 26th and demanded the remaining $800 from him. Unbeknownst to Castagna at the time Curtis had already contacted Spokane police and a detective was present with Curtis when Castagna called again.
Yow! Halloween party gone bad! Leave the dressup and the trick or treating for the kids.
Naturally, for some people this is about party politics. That’s fine. The next Democratic sex scandal is only an indiscretion, such as Hillary’s election, away.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:43 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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October 31st, 2007 at 11:06 am
Dear lord, why in hell do they feel it is necessary to assail us with every little detail?
And you are right, Jules, sex-scandals are not delimited by party politics. Dems or Reps, I’m sick to death of these sordid tales. These people can’t keep their draws on, but feel competent to run every aspect of my life.
November 1st, 2007 at 10:36 pm
That isn’t the way it’s being reported around here. Your place is the first place that I’ve heard about why he was being extorted. I live in the city of Spokane. And I’m pissed that the representative is being allowed to stay in office. If he’s that flaky that he allows himself to be trapped in that kind of shakedown then what kind of thought process is he capable of producing in making law? Where do we get these people? And why can’t we send them back?