Anti-gay Republican cruised Craigslist for male prostitute

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Written by Alex Campbell The Indianapolis Star


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Emails shared with The Indianapolis Star suggest that state Rep. Phillip Hinkle -- responding to a local posting on Craigslist -- offered a young man $80 plus tip to spend time with him Saturday night at the JW Marriott hotel.

The emails, sent from Hinkle's publicly listed personal address, ask the young man for "a couple hours of your time tonight" and offer him cash up front, with a tip of up to $50 or $60 "for a really good time."

The email exchange is in response to the Craigslist posting in which the young man -- who lists his age as 20 in the ad but says he is 18 years old -- says, "I need a sugga daddy."

The young man told The Star that they met, but that he tried to leave after the man told him he was a state lawmaker. He said the lawmaker at first told him he could not leave, grabbed him in the rear, exposed himself to the young man and then later gave him an iPad, BlackBerry cellphone and $100 cash to keep quiet.

When contacted by The Star about the emails, Hinkle, a Republican who recently voted for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, did not contest the emails but said, "I am aware of a shakedown taking place."

Asked what he meant by shakedown, Hinkle would not elaborate. He directed further questions to his attorney.

Hinkle's lawyer, defense attorney Peter Nugent, said he was unable to say what Hinkle meant by a "shakedown." Nugent said he is investigating the situation, but he does not know what happened Saturday. Nugent said he has not filed a police report and does not yet know whether he will.

Asked whether he had seen the emails and the Craigslist posting, Nugent said, "Oh, I've seen some emails, but not all of them." He would not be more specific.

"I'm trying to get to the bottom of everything involved," Nugent said.

Wednesday, Nugent faxed this "official statement":

"Representative Hinkle is aware of the inquiries by The Indianapolis Star and we are investigating the matter at this time. We request that everyone respect the privacy of the family at this time."

Hinkle, 64, who lists his occupation as coordinator for community partnerships for Wayne Township Schools on the Indiana House website, has been a state lawmaker since 2000. He is best known in the Statehouse for his interest in local government issues. On the website, he also notes he was a co-author of the bill that created the "In God We Trust" license plate.

The young man, Kameryn Gibson, told The Star he posted the Craigslist ad in the "Casual Encounters" section under m4m, which is shorthand for men for men. He used his adopted sister's email address.

Gibson said he and the man met but that they did not have sex. He and the sister, Megan Gibson, flatly denied any shakedown.

"I wasn't shaking him down, at all," Kameryn Gibson said.

Megan Gibson said she contacted The Star because she thought Hinkle's actions were "creepy" and, given his stature, that his actions should be made public.

Megan Gibson also provided the email exchange, which she forwarded to The Star. She also allowed a reporter to inspect the emails, which she had kept, on her smartphone. The phone contained not only the email exchange but a call log that showed phone calls from numbers that match both Hinkle's cellphone and home phone.

The Craigslist ad was posted at 7:37 a.m. Saturday. The ad shows two pictures of Kameryn Gibson, shirtless with pants pulled below the top of his underwear.

The ad's text features one written line: "Email me and I'll tell you everything you need to know!"

Forty-seven minutes later, he received a response from phinkle46 @comcast.net, with the email signature "Sent from Phil's iPad."

"Cannot be a long time sugar daddy," the email reads, "but can for tonight. Would you be interested in keeping me company for a while tonight?"

The email offers "to make it worth (your) while" in cash, and offers a personal description: "I am an in shape married professional, 5'8", fit 170 lbs, and love getting and staying naked."

Fifteen minutes later, Kameryn Gibson replied: "Yes I can!" He also sent along his phone number.

What followed was an email exchange between phinkle46 @comcast.net and Kameryn Gibson. One email from Hinkle's account asks "what will make you happy for giving me a couple hours of your time tonight?"

Gibson: "Wat (sic) can you give me?"

Phinkle46 @comcast.net: "How about $80 for services rendered and if real satisfied a healthy tip? That make it worth while?"

The two agreed on the price and discussed logistics. An email sent at 9:44 a.m., also with the signature "Sent from Phil's iPad" and sent from Hinkle's personal account, lays clear the parameters for the tip: "Final for the record, for a really good time, you could get another 50, 60 bucks. That sound good?"

Later, about 5 p.m., phinkle46 @comcast.net offered to pick up the young man at his Westside home and drive him to the JW Marriott hotel.

The final emails from phinkle46 @comcast.net come from a BlackBerry. One such email suggests: "If u want to consider spending night u might tell ur sis so she won't worry. Would have u back before 11 tomorrow. No extra cash just free breakfast and maybe late night snack."

Gibson responds only with his address. At 8:45 p.m., he receives one final email from phinkle46 @comcast.net: "I am here in parking lot between bldg 1 and 2. U here?"

The email exchange contains no mention of sex acts.

Brad Banks, supervisor of the D Felony Division at the Marion County prosecutor's office, explained -- without being provided details of the emails -- that prostitution in the state of Indiana is defined as an agreement between two parties to have sex in exchange for money and that the agreement must be about both sex and money.

Kameryn Gibson provided the following account of what happened after that final email from phinkle46 @comcast.net.

He said Hinkle picked him up in a white car -- his suit jacket was hanging in the backseat.

When they arrived at the hotel, Gibson said he was given the room key and told to go into the hotel. They couldn't go in together, Gibson was told. About 15 minutes later, Hinkle arrived in the room, changed into a towel and then during small talk informed Gibson he was a lawmaker.

Gibson said the man showed him an identification card.

The ID, Gibson said, gave a name: Phillip Hinkle.

"My eyes got big," Gibson told The Star. "I didn't really know what to say, so I didn't say anything. It was just a shock."

Gibson said he had posted on Craigslist before but had never met up with someone. Knowing he was in a bedroom with a politician, Gibson said, he got cold feet.

"Yeah, I don't want to do this," Gibson said he told Hinkle.

He said Hinkle's response was: "You need to do this, because I came and got you, and I'm not taking you back until we do what we need to do."

Gibson excused himself to the bathroom. There, he called his sister Megan. She said she would come get him immediately.

When Gibson came out, he said Hinkle told him he couldn't leave. Gibson called his sister again. This time, Megan told him to put her on speakerphone.

"I started cussing him," Megan told The Star. She also threatened to call the police and the local media.

"He said, 'I'll give you whatever,'" Megan said.

But when they hung up, Kameryn Gibson said Hinkle grabbed him by the right arm, just below the shoulder. Gibson said it was then that Hinkle grabbed him in the rear, dropped his towel and sat down on the bed -- naked.

When Megan Gibson arrived to pick up her brother, she again threatened to call police and the local media.

Kameryn and Megan Gibson said Hinkle then offered his iPad, a BlackBerry and $100 in cash.

Kameryn Gibson walked past his sister and out of the room as she continued to yell at Hinkle.

"She was still going off," Kameryn Gibson said, "and I was like, 'OK, I think that's enough, I think he gets it.' "

Megan Gibson said that on the drive back, she began receiving a series of calls on the BlackBerry, including one from a woman who said she was Hinkle's wife.

"I was like, 'Your husband is gay,' " Megan said. "And then she was like, 'You have the wrong person.' "

Megan read her the email address: phinkle46 @comcast.net.

The line went silent.

"Just for a couple seconds," Megan Gibson said, "and the first thing she said was, 'Please don't call the police.' "

Phone messages left with Hinkle's wife late Thursday were not returned.

Megan Gibson said she then began receiving a series of calls from various family members -- including from Hinkle's son-in-law, demanding that his wife see proof of the emails.

Megan Gibson dropped off her brother then returned to the JW Marriott, where she showed Hinkle's daughter the emails.

Megan Gibson said on her way back, she received another call from Hinkle's wife.

"The first thing she said, she was like, 'OK, we will give you $10,000 not to say anything,' " said Megan Gibson, who said she was now becoming scared. "I was like, 'OK,' and I hung up the phone."

She soon got another call -- from the Marriott hotel. It was Hinkle. Megan Gibson told Hinkle that she had informed his wife and family that he was gay.

Megan Gibson said Hinkle's response was: "You just ruined me."

[Acid Trip]

That guy puts the douche in douche bag.

[JoeyB]

You know what would be easier? Instead of posting every time an anti-gay conservative type is caught looking for cock, post when one turns out to actually be straight.

[Hal-9000]

hmmm... iPad, Blackberry and 100 bucks...


not a bad wage for getting your ass grabbed :thumbsup:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Married politician who paid teen boy for "good time" denies he's gay
Written by Matthew Tully - Indianapolis Star


State Rep. Phil Hinkle looked like nothing more than an older businessman enjoying a sunny Tuesday morning as he sat outside a Starbucks near a busy stretch of U.S. 31 in Kokomo.

"I'm going bonkers," he told me as I approached his table. He was referring to the trouble he was having in securing an Internet connection with his laptop.

That was a minor inconvenience, of course, compared to the past two weeks, a time Hinkle describes as self-inflicted hell.

Less than an hour had passed since Hinkle had released a statement rejecting the call from House Speaker Brian Bosma, a fellow Republican, that he resign from office amid a scandal that has stunned his colleagues and constituents and left his once formidable personal and professional reputation in tatters. That scandal, which centers on the revelation that Hinkle hired an 18-year-old man to visit him in a hotel room, has sparked both strong condemnation and sadness.

Hinkle has been in seclusion in recent days, but he invited me to join him at the Starbucks so that we could talk about the scandal, which was first reported in The Indianapolis Star two weeks ago. For 90 minutes, he talked, sometimes inconsistently, about everything from his strained relationship with his late father to his vow to serve out his current two-year term to his hope that his wife would forgive him and continue their 41-year marriage.

"We had the good life," he said. "I was just too stupid or too blind to see it."

During the conversation, Hinkle admitted that he arranged to pick up the young man on a recent Saturday night, to pay him $80 and to take him to a room at the JW Marriott. He also acknowledged sending emails in which he requested "a really good time."

But he forcefully denied that he or his wife tried to bribe the teenager or his sister to keep quiet, as they have alleged. He also denied being gay.

When I asked whether he had previously arranged such encounters, he quickly answered, "We're not going there."

The past two weeks, Hinkle said, have been the toughest of his life. He is currently staying with a family member as his wife works through the private sense of betrayal that has come with this public scandal. He clearly is struggling to retain the confident air that has been his political trademark. He repeatedly criticized "judgmental Bible thumpers," but also quoted Scripture himself at times. He noted that gay-rights groups have harshly criticized his past votes in light of his recent actions but argued that despite his stand against gay rights, he has never been "a Bible thumper" or one to issue moralizing statements.

Hinkle said he has begun to meet with a professional therapist to begin working through decades-old incidents, such as arguments with his father.

He also is talking to the therapist about what Hinkle describes as a recent, strange change in behavior.

"I want to know what upstairs in my brain went off that sent me down a road of self-destruction," he said. "Somewhere upstairs a button got pushed, and I want to know why. People keep asking: 'What were you thinking?' I honestly don't know. It's as simple as that."

As trucks barreled by along the highway, Hinkle continued.

"I want to know why I did what I did," he said. "But I do believe that God slapped me upside the head and said, 'Wake up and smell the coffee, jerk. You're walking down the wrong road.' "

He said he now realizes his behavior changed for the worse at least a year ago. He recalled irrationally lashing out one day at the Statehouse at fellow state Rep. Sheila Klinker, and he said his wife noted months ago that he was cursing much more than usual.

As we talked, he snapped a rubber band, which he wears around his wrist, each time he uttered a four-letter word. Repeatedly, he insisted he could not explain his thinking on that Saturday night.

His answers weren't always satisfying or complete. Throughout the conversation, however, Hinkle took responsibility for the position he's now in.

"Did I make mistakes?" he said. "Absolutely. And now, I'm seeking help."

The veteran lawmaker and former City-County Council member disputed some of the allegations made against him. He acknowledges that he did join the young man in the hotel room but insisted there was no talk of sex, only of "baseball and the view." He didn't deny, however, that that might have changed had the encounter continued. But, he said, after he returned from the bathroom early in the evening, the young man was missing -- along with Hinkle's money clip, iPad and other belongings. Hinkle did not call the police, however.

He described as ludicrous allegations that his wife tried to buy the young man's silence for $10,000.

"Anybody who knows my wife," he said, "knows she would not pay $10 to keep a mistake I made quiet, let alone $10,000."

As we talked, Hinkle often seemed like the politician I've known for years. He made the occasional joke and even talked about legislation. But he was 12 pounds thinner than just a few weeks ago, and he clearly is a man humbled by recent events.

He nearly cried at one point, and, like many who send their lives down a sad path, he's now desperately striving to reclaim what he once had. He said he has begun to repair a long-strained relationship with his adult son and is hopeful that his wife's love of family will lead her back to him.

And while he said he would not run again for the Indiana House in 2012, he intends to hold onto his Westside legislative seat for the remainder of the current term.

"It's going to be tough to walk back into the Statehouse," he said. "There will be people making comments, and I deserve it. But I think there will be more support and encouragement than the leadership is willing to acknowledge."

The next session doesn't begin until January. Until then, Hinkle said, he will continue to seek counseling. He said he hopes "to peel back the onion" and, he added as he pointed to his head, "find out what's going on up there."

[Godfather]

It's always the ones who most fervently deny it that are the biggest poofs of them all isn't it.....

This little bum bandit went so far as becoming an anti-gay Republican Rep. :lol:

We all know he really just wants to dance in the ballet
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[Leefro]

Its called trying to get elected

[Hal-9000]

what if he has some physical shortcoming and he has an agreement with his wife...to procure her some young male tail so he can go and do other things?

[PorkChopSandwiches]

It's always the ones who most fervently deny it that are the biggest poofs of them all isn't it.....

This little bum bandit went so far as becoming an anti-gay Republican Rep. :lol:



Isnt that the truth

[Hal-9000]

that little bum bandit...ffs GF :lol:


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