- Sen. Paul Koering
There’s been no shortage of scandals in recent years involving elected officials. It’s a long, long list, and one I’m not even gonna try to repeat it here.
Usually when it happens, the person that got caught responds in one of two ways: They issue blustery denials or they issue tearful apologies and beg forgiveness. Wait, okay, they respond in one of three ways, the third being blustery denials followed by tearful apologies.
But rarely — if ever — do we see a response like the one Minnesota State Sen. Paul Koering offered up after it hit the news that he had dinner with gay porn star Brandon Wilde, as reported by AVN Media Network. Basically, Koering answered with what amounts to a shoulder shrug and a “So what?”
Koering, who is a Republican and openly gay, said: ““I don’t see anything wrong with going out with him. Do I think that being a porn star is the best thing? No. But that’s his choice. I think he’s a nice guy.”
The dinner date came to light thanks to Wilde’s Twitter post: ““lol so funny!! in 45 mins im going 2 dinner with the senator :).”
Wilde had a profile on RentBoy.com (the same place George Rekers found a nice young man to carry his bags), but it has been removed and he has said he did not connect with Koering through that site. Instead, he said, they met online through a mutual friend and met later in person at a gay Pride picnic.
What’s amazing to me is that I saw only one story online about the date between the porn star and the senator. Usually, these “scandals” are splashed across headlines everywhere, and I would have expected the right-wingers to pounce on this one right off the bat. I mean, a gay senator and a porn star? That’s golden for the “family values” crowd.
But no. No real hoopla. Maybe because everybody else agrees with Koering that it’s no big deal. Maybe he stole their scandalized thunder by refusing to respond either with bluster or tears. Maybe there’s a lesson there for others: Honesty is the best policy.
why would this be scandalous, or even warrant denials or tearful apologies? He’s openly gay, having dinner with another openly gay man – who cares! Is he not supposed to date or have a personal life – least what probably only resembles one. It would only warrant those denials and apologies if he were anti-gay, and got caught in a hotel room on all fours with a big c*ck shoved in both holes – then he could get away with the water works – the only thing anyone could possibly say about this is the moral issue that he’s dating a porn star – but again, who cares, there’s many of us out there that know someone who has done porn for whatever reason, it doesn’t make them bad people with no morals, it just means they either enjoy it, or found it as a way to make good money for schooling, etc. This is Dallas – you can’t throw a rock and not hit someone who has done porn – yes people, taking naked pics of yourself and sending them is considered to be a form of porn – although it doesn’t make you a “porn star”
Good for him!!! Get some porn star booty!
When openly gay people are open about their sexual preference it stands to reason that who they have dinner with should also be open to scrutiny. Logical?
Hey — Lil’ Carl: That’s a big assumption on your part, huh?
Looks like you may have spoken too soon, Tammye. So far, in the last 24 hours, The Brainerd Dispatch, KSAX-TV and WCCO-TV, among other Minnesota outlets, have picked up the story and cast it as a ‘controversy.’