Republican Mayor Outed After Paying Gay Sex Shop with City-Issued Credit Card

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Dec 16, 2011 in Politics | 18 comments

Greg Davis with the wife and kids.

Proud husband and father of three, Southaven Mayor Greg Davis’ life has been turned upside down thanks to the $170,000 in allegedly fraudulent purchases he charged to his city-issued credit card during his tenure. The Mississippi town that once elected him to office is now forcing the disgraced mayor to pay back the embezzled funds.

Just what does a small town Mississippi mayor even spent that kind of cash on? Liquor, fine dining and gay sex toys, it turns out.

Receipts from embattled Southaven Mayor Greg Davis reveal that he had the city pay for wide-ranging expenses including thousands of dollars worth of liquor, expensive dinners at a local restaurant and a visit to an adult store catering to gay men while on a recruitment trip to Canada.

Having been outed by his receipts of all things, Davis flipped the GOP gay sex scandal playbook on its head by just coming out and admitting what everyone already was thinking – he’s gay.

“At this point in my life and in my career, while I have tried to maintain separation between my personal and public life, it is obvious that this can no longer remain the case,” Davis said Thursday afternoon at his Southaven home. “While I have performed my job as mayor, in my opinion, as a very conservative, progressive individual — and still continue to be a very conservative individual — I think that it is important that I discuss the struggles I have had over the last few years when I came to the realization that I am gay.“

Props to Davis for not lying through his teeth like so many in his party do in similar circumstances. But do we really haaaave to welcome him with open arms into the gay community? We’re talking about an embezzler who stole from his hometown and ran on a “family values” campaign – i.e. down with the gays.

Here’s a better question though: If you’ve secretly struggled with your homosexuality for twenty years, why on earth would you run for political office as a Republican?

(via Commercial Appeal)

http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Anderson/1485012494 Aaron Anderson

well think of all the republican senators that have been caught with a rent a boy or craigslist add… ask them lol
geoffr

honestly, i can’t help but sympathize with the guy…yeah he committed a crime and should face the consequences, and i can’t say i like his stance on “family values”, but it seems like he’s had a hard few years coming to terms with his sexual orientation. he’s got my support.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443795670 Joey Lopez

family values stances are great and wonderful when they are someone’s wonderful personal opinion, we’ve all got em! happy giggle… NO. He’s a person in power to create policy, law and legal judgment over people. ‘family values’ governance is also the rationale behind things like the ‘kill the gays’ bill in uganda, oh hey, which a bunch of U.S. republicans helped draft, what a coinkidink. whatever. he’s got a lot of charity work to do before he’ll be ‘welcomed’, and that’ll be AFTER his prison sentence for his separate crimes.

http://www.facebook.com/dgandara Daniel Gandara

turn the other cheek. Who are we, the proponents of love and marriage equality, to hate others?

Anonymous

Nice try, but being a “proponent of love marriage equality” does not equate to letting someone run all over you while embezzling and joining up with a party who is building their platform on (among other things) taking away the rights of others. I get tired of people pretending that there can be no repercussions coming from the Left just because we don’t run on wanting everyone dead or in prison who isn’t like us.

Being a caring person doesn’t mean I have to be a sucker who lets you take away people’s rights. If anyone should be CLOSE to doing that, it’s the people who pretend to believe in Christ and say they want to be Christ-like. He was all about total forgiveness, right? Yet the GOP never even HINTS at that while screaming about how much they “love” Him.

Wouldn’t know Jesus if they were stoning him, sez I.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443795670 Joey Lopez

so you’re saying you have nothing but love for Anita Bryant, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, David Bahati, Anne Coulter, Maggie galagher, Adolph Hitler? if you don’t know every one of those names, you should google them, they affect you.
http://www.facebook.com/erin.maes Erin Maes

So if a person suffers discrimination, that person is automatically a “proponent of love” who has no right to criticize anyone else? Criticizing bigotry and bigoted legislation is the only way to show how wrong it is.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Nate-Fl/1238503113 Nate Fl

These people in positions of power that hold “we the peoples” money need to be held accountable. He spent tax payers money that he has to re-pay in a gay sex shop. I would be just a sad if he spent the money on female hookers.

He ran with- family values, and anti-”homosexual”

Sorry he had a hard time coming out.
Why just the other day that young man stood up to his mother about being gay in a text. If you cant stand up for what you are and what you believe in then you should not run for office. This man was a coward. A coward to go as far as tote “family values” and then turn around and be a “homosexual” or gay.

We are what we are.I can not change my sexuality. And thats good. Because I am Happy with who I am with. I do hope he is ok and finds continuity.
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Dima-Elena/100001645571109 Dima Elena

store comme sex shop it’ s very important dor adult people
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443795670 Joey Lopez

this is the thing, people become homophobic because of self-loathing. the problem is, we are human – and have ‘urges’ you know that never ending need for everything human like food, air, sex, intimacy, and when one of those needs gets plugged up, well it just explodes. the weird thing is the opposite direction closeteers sometime go – i truly believe it is literally to throw off the scent that they are gay (or so they believe) like it’s a game and they are winning because they can be as opposite of gay as possible – ironically in these times, we as a society are becomming more indifferent and supportive toward civil rights and those different than us – which ends up causing the backward ways of closeteers to become self-evident that ‘doth protest too much’ and in turn, gay-bashers=super homo self haters. No go forth and call every hoto-hater, a closeted gay*
*=super closet morons sometimes act violently to prove their point, use caution.
http://www.skillmega.com SJ Hosin

Well, I do feel bad for the guy. We only have your opinion that he was a “down with the gays” person He should definitely go to jail for embezzlement, though!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=306000454 Jessica Van Essen

why was he recruiting in Canada if he is from Mississippi?
Keith Alan Burrows

It always seems it’s the GOP that get outed the most in the most embarrassing ways, but to be a thief too, is so very shoddy. Not only did he hurt his family and his constituents but they should bring charges. He needs some serious psychological help.
Let people live their lives without the stigma of “sinning gays” and people would be mentally a lot more healthy and fewer families would be hurt by the coming out of a person trying hard to live a ‘straight’ life.
Anonymous

Regardless, this politician embezzled close to 200 K & needs to be put behind bars. Kevin, remember American Beauty ? Some are living under multiple personas with complicated psychological conditions. I know you are pro left but there are those too who lean towards the right rather than left & who arent the straightest of arrows ither. Being Republican doesnt automatically make one anti glbt rights. Govt needs to stay out of things unless its extending equal rights for all.
http://www.facebook.com/hollyh58 Holly Equality Homan

I feel sorry for his wife and kids who also must live with the shame of his behavior. Not that he’s gay, of course, but he married a woman and fathered three children, then stole money from the tax payers. And, further more, how can you be progressive AND conservative as he states? I’d say he’s messed up more than anything else
Anonymous

Yes, this is why there needs to be 100% equal rights for all. Change a law & you change peoples beliefs over a period of time of what is acceptable or not.
Anonymous

This is what happens when you are in denial of your homosexuality, get married thinking the feelings will go away and they do not.
I have seen it time and time again. Trying to conform to what society says you should be.
In most cases it ends up hurting the kids and the wife the most.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000451850693 Ashley Valencia

What a moron. I mean seriously, to use any credit card is a stupid move to begin with but your CITY ISSUED one? They have to check those records dumb-ass. What a ra-tard.

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