Douche Bag Of The Week: Bob Allen

Fear of the "pretty stocky black guy" who turned out to be an undercover cop made Fla. Rep. Bob Allen perform the actions that led to a charge of solicitation to commit prostitution, Allen told police in documents aired by the Orlando Sentinel. Allen, R-Merritt Island, was arrested July 11 in a Titusville, Fla., public-park restroom after he offered the officer $20 to let him perform oral sex, police said.

The charge, a second-degree misdemeanor, is punishable by a year in county jail and a $500 fine. Allen says he is innocent and that he will not resign from the Legislature.

"I certainly wasn't there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn't there to exchange money for it," the Sentinel quoted him as saying. Rather, he said, "this was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park," Allen said. He said he feared he "was about to be a statistic."

Titusville police said they saw a disheveled, unshaven man enter and leave the park restroom three times. Officer Danny Kavanaugh said he was drying his hands in a stall when Allen peered — twice — over the stall door, then joined Kavanaugh inside. "This is kind of a public place," isn't it?" the Sentinel quoted Allen as saying; he then suggested "going across the bridge; it's quieter over there."

Soon after taking office in 2001, Allen was one of 21 Florida legislators to sign Gov. Jeb Bush's friend-of-the-court brief supporting the state's ban on gays adopting children. In March, he co-sponsored an unsuccessful bill that would have enhanced penalties for "offenses involving unnatural and lascivious acts" such as indecent exposure.

This hypocrite is my Douche Bag of the Week.
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