Trump values: Utah state GOP pol who resigned Tuesday had fling with hooker
Whatever will we tell the children?
Taxpayer funds were used to pay for at least two hotel rooms that a Utah lawmaker who resigned this week is alleged to have used to meet up with a prostitute last year, according to records found by a state House of Representatives official.
DailyMail.com revealed exclusively on Thursday that Republican Rep. Jon Stanard, who is married with three kids, twice hired a prostitute in 2017. The allegations were a shock since Stanard preaches family values and has fought to get stricter solicitation laws.
After the report was published, House and state elections officials said they were checking to see if taxpayer or campaign money was used for Stanard’s hotel stays with the prostitute.
House Chief of Staff Greg Hartley told the Associated Press in a text message that Stanard, who resigned Tuesday night, was reimbursed for hotel stays in Salt Lake City in June and August 2017 when Stanard was attending legislative meetings at the state Capitol, four hours from his home in St. George.
His hooker talked to the Daily Mail:
Brie Taylor told DailyMail.com that Stanard twice paid her for sex last year during business trips to Salt Lake City and that he arranged the meetings with a number for a state-issued phone listed on his legislative profile.
The date and time of the messages indicate Stanard would have been texting her to arrange meetings on days the Legislature was in session in March and when lawmakers were in meetings at the Capitol in summer and fall.
Stanard’s colleagues are aghast:
Fellow Republican Rep. Mike McKell told the AP he was “shocked” by the allegations and Stanard’s subsequent resignation.
“I was absolutely shocked. I had never heard anything, there was nothing in my interaction — I sit next to him on the House floor — nothing in my interaction that’s ever suggesting anything even remotely close to what we’re seeing today,” McKell said.
