The Storm Clouds have erupted. KELO has the story. Former legislator arrested for stalking, rape.
I told you it was coming:
This is bad. So bad.
A former South Dakota legislator has been arrested. Republican Ted Klaudt faces several charges including stalking and second degree rape.Read it all here at KELOland.com.
Klaudt is charged with eight counts of second degree rape, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of sexual contact with a child under 16, two counts of tampering with a witness, and one count of stalking.
This is bad. So bad.
Comments
It is that kind of bad. In fact, I'm not sure it isn't worse than I'd heard.
You promoted the rumor with your post that someone was to be busted. You're just a rumor-monger. No honor (nor value) in that.
This is so bizzare my head is spinning.
I'm taking PP's suggestion. I’m not reading PP’s creepy window-peeping posts. I’m staying away from the details of this mess and leaving it to the authorities.
Have fun with your voyeurism all.
Thanks for staying above the fray on this.
Innocent until proven guilty. That's what we're about here in this country.
I certainly wish the foster program well, because they are going to have a tough time for the foreseeable near future. Through no fault of their own.
Certainly some Republican legislators knew that Ted had a page staying in his room during the 2006 legislative session. Funny that nobody saw fit to mention that while the whole Sutton matter was going on.
I wonder if Klaudt's peanut caucus friends knew about the page staying with him in his room. Heck, the peanut caucus used to meet at Klaudt's room. Rhoden, did you know? Napoli, did you know? Hackl, did you know? Lintz, did you know?
If a third of what is detailed in the Hughes County Court document is true, he needs to be hung by his privates and used as a piñata. By his own admission, this evil, horrid, disgusting example of the human race took advantage of the trust placed in him by these girls and the state. I read the whole court document, and I just kept feeling sicker and sicker.
If you go though the bullet points of the complaint starting at number 43, you start seeing the things that he admits himself. I suggest doing it on an empty stomach.
Heh, heh, heh!! Good one.
We report, you decide.
Funny too the state House thought they were like Cesear's wife and beyond reproach regarding a code of ethics last session. It was just those darn state senators who couldn't keep their hands off the pages, not us paragons of moral virtue, the state house. Yeah, right. Like no one in the GOP caucus had no idea about Ted's "hobbies"?
Funny too to now hear the Republicans say this shouldn't be about politics. It would be fun to go back and read what they all said about Sutton when he got caught with his fingers in the male page cookie jar. Let's be real. It's always about politics.
I look forward to Ted's former GOP colleagues now either coming to his defense--or more interesting--hanging him out to dry. One thing my Republican friends are good at are culling their own herd of the weak and the no longer useful. I.e., see Bob Sahr. Like Dan Sutton, no criminal prosecutions there either.
If we in the blogosphere, news business, and politics dined for months on Sutton, Klaudt's situation, pardon the bad pun, is an even bigger and fatter story that will fill thousands of column inches, hours of video tapes, and hundreds of blog posts.
It's time the mid-winter fraternity party called the South Dakota Legislature starts to act like adults. Actually, if they acted like drunken frat boys, that might be an improvement over where they are now.