Larry Flynt. You have to admire the guy. He does know the constitution. Came in 7th, out of a field of 100 in the California Governor Recall Election.
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Flynt digging up dirt on politicians once again
After offering a $1 million bounty, porn publisher says he has more than 200 leads.
By Carla Marinucci
San Francisco Chronicle
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt - days after posting a $1 million bounty for verifiable information on the sexual exploits of Congress members and political leaders - says he's been deluged by more than 200 leads pouring in from around the country, "80 percent of them on Republicans."
"I'm not interested in exposing anyone's sex life," Flynt said. "It's the hypocrisy I'm after."
The California-based porn king, who heads a profitable empire that includes Hustler Casino in Gardena as well as the infamous skin mag and edgier publications such as Barely Legal, started a stir this week in political circles.
He posted a full-page ad in The Washington Post on Sunday that offered $1 million for any "documented evidence of intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent officeholder," information that must be verified and published in Hustler.
Flynt's campaign to urge Americans to inform on dallying politicians could get interesting.
In 1998, he made a similar offer when President Clinton faced impeachment by outraged Republicans after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The result: GOP House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston resigned after Flynt prepared to go public with an informant's details of his affair.
Flynt also released an affidavit by the wife of then-GOP Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia - an anti-abortion conservative - in which she said her husband paid for her abortion and then took on a mistress.
"Everybody - because I'm a civil libertarian - thinks I'm going after Republicans. That's not true," he said.
Flynt said he expects "2 to 4 percent" of the leads to develop into solid publishable information and wouldn't name names; but he's looking into, among others, "a couple of (congressmen) who are gay and they're voting against every piece of legislation that would adversely affect gays."
Flynt ran as a Republican for president against Ronald Reagan and more recently carried the banner as "the smut peddler who cares" as the Democratic candidate who came in seventh among the more than 100 hopefuls in the 2003 gubernatorial recall election in California - a contest won by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Flynt says he's fully prepared to be the focus of conservatives who will unload their criticism on him with his latest offer for political dirt.
Livingston, he recalled, publicly called him a "bottom-feeder."
Flynt's response: "Yeah, that's right - and look what I've found when I got down there."'
Posted by Valkyre at June 9, 2007 12:43 AM