They say confession is good for the soul.
A Utah pol will find out soon enough if that’s true after revealing a deep held secret in the House chamber in Utah.
I guess Harry Reid can breath a sigh of relief that some other politician in Utah can get some grief for awhile.
Google News reports:
A late-night confession by Utah's House majority leader about sitting nude in a hot tub with a minor 25 years ago has shocked this conservative state's political establishment but has not prompted calls from party leaders for him to resign.Rep. Kevin Garn, 55, acknowledged the indiscretion late Thursday immediately after the Legislature adjourned for the session. He said he paid the woman, Cheryl Maher, now 40, $150,000 to keep quiet about the episode when he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2002.
"Although we did not have any sexual contact, it was still clearly inappropriate — and it was my fault," said Garn, of Layton.
Garn owns KSG Distributing Inc., which sells books on tape, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes to retailers such as truck stops, grocery stores and convenience stores. Maher worked in his warehouse at the time.
Scandals of this nature are rare in Utah politics, where there's a heavy Mormon influence, so the fallout Friday was pronounced.
"If you have those kinds of incidents in your background, I think you'd be less inclined to want to run for public office, in part, because of the risk of exposure and what that would do to your career," said University of Utah political scientist Matthew Burbank. "For the most part, it would end your career. There's a fairly strong moral sense in Utah."
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