{"id":189555,"date":"2010-03-12T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/12\/phant-phamily-values\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T02:35:00","slug":"phant-phamily-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/12\/phant-phamily-values\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Phant Phamily Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Majority (Republican) leader of the Utah House of Delegates has been forced to reveal that when he was 28, he  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/utah\/ci_14660754\">went nude hot-tubbing with a 15 year old that worked for him in the warehouse that he managed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, he paid $150,000 in hush money to her when he tried to run for Congress:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In the midst of his 2002 congressional campaign, Utah House Majority Leader Kevin Garn paid $150,000 to a woman threatening to go public with a past relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Maher&#8217;s story is this: In 1985, then 15 years old, Maher worked for then 30-year-old Garn at his business, Pegasus Records and KSG Enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>She said Garn, who was married, struck up a relationship with her and one night took her to a location in Salt Lake City where they hot-tubbed together nude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be sleazy even if she weren&#8217;t 15.  She was his <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">employee<\/span>, and this is sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>And if that weren&#8217;t squicky enough, he is her, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20000350-503544.html\">onetime Sunday school teacher<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One note: as far as I can tell, Kevin Garn is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> related to former Utah Senator Jake Garn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Majority (Republican) leader of the Utah House of Delegates has been forced to reveal that when he was 28, he went nude hot-tubbing with a 15 year old that worked for him in the warehouse that he managed. What&#8217;s more, he paid $150,000 in hush money to her when he tried to run for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1051,978,1019,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}