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Influential gay rights advocate and top Obama donor, Terry Bean, and
alleged former boyfriend arrested.
Conservatives complain that President Obama gets a free pass from
the media, which acts as a de-facto public-relations shop for the
Democrat in the White House. Never has that charge seemed truer than
now as an ugly rape scandal unfolds on the West Coast.
On Wednesday, Portland, Ore. police arrestedTerrence Patrick Bean,
who has been charged with two felony counts of having sex with a
minor last year. This man is not just any old guy accused of having
sex with a 15-year-old – he's a big-money Democratic donor and
liberal political activist with connections inside the Obama White
House. Bean raised more than a half-million dollars for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
"Bean has been one of the state's biggest Democratic donors and an
influential figure in gay rights circles in the state," reports
oregonlive.com. "He helped found two major national political
groups, the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Victory
Fund and has been a major contributor for several Democratic
presidential candidates, including Barack Obama."
A search of the Federal Election Commission's campaign-finance
database turns up thousands in donations every cycle by Bean to the
Democratic Party's most powerful leaders, including Hillary Clinton,
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Dick Durbin, and Rep. Barney
Frank, among others. Photos of Bean posted online show him flying on
Air Force One with Obama.
The scandal is escalating. Thursday, according to local media, Kiah
Loy Lawson, allegedly 66-year-old Bean's 25-year-old former
boyfriend, was arrested by the Portland Sex Crimes Unit for sexually
abusing the same boy. After the relationship between the two men
ended, Lawson went public with claims that Bean had a practice of
secretly videotaping himself having sex with others.
This story was first reported by the local press, and there have
been vague references to sexual trouble for Bean and Lawson since
June, but the national media has not picked it up. That oversight is politically convenient for President Obama as he tries to pull off
one of his riskiest political moves ever with his amnesty executive
order.
If one of President George W. Bush's bundlers would have been
charged with child rape, make no mistake about it, the media feeding
frenzy would have been uncontrollable – which would be legitimate
given the severity of the allegation. The silence surrounding
Terrence Bean exposes the national media's partisan double standard
in obscene detail.
Brett M. Decker is consulting director at the White House Writers
Group.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/11/20/kiah-lawson- terry-bean-human-rights-campaign-gay-sex-obama-prison-
column/70021560/
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