Mole runner-up senate candidate caught up in nude photo scandal
07-01-03, 10:12 PM
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Mole runner-up senate candidate caught up in nude photo scandal
Remember this guy? Jim Morrison, 29 year-old helicopter pilot and lawyer from New Jersey, and runner-up on the original season of "The Mole"... Well, now he's a 32 year-old state senate candidate, in trouble over nude photos...
Naked pics haunt N.J. senate candidate
advocate.com news headlines
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
Charles Cart, chairman of New Jersey's Sussex County Democratic Party, is asking openly gay state senate hopeful Jim Morrison to abandon his bid because of a nude-photo contest Morrison entered in 1996, The [Newark] Star-Ledger reports. Morrison, who was a contestant on the first season of the ABC reality show The Mole in 2001, told Advocate.com about the contest. "I won the contest in New York at this bar called Cake. It was the Prettiest Penis contest, and I won it twice in 1996," he said at the time. "You had to go into a room with a fluffer of your choice and with Justin, the host for the night, and then they took a Polaroid. Then they hung the Polaroids all up onstage for viewing and voting. Justin Bond has the Polaroids."
Today, the 32-year-old Morrison said there is "no chance" that he will drop out of the senate race because of the photos. "If people want to know about it, they should know that I won the contest," he told The Star-Ledger.
Cart said the revelations about the nude photos could make it even more difficult for Democrats to win the senate seat in a county where Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than a 3-to-1 ratio. "It's hard enough being a Democrat in Sussex County without having people think that we think this type of behavior is OK," he said.
advocate.com news headlines
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
Charles Cart, chairman of New Jersey's Sussex County Democratic Party, is asking openly gay state senate hopeful Jim Morrison to abandon his bid because of a nude-photo contest Morrison entered in 1996, The [Newark] Star-Ledger reports. Morrison, who was a contestant on the first season of the ABC reality show The Mole in 2001, told Advocate.com about the contest. "I won the contest in New York at this bar called Cake. It was the Prettiest Penis contest, and I won it twice in 1996," he said at the time. "You had to go into a room with a fluffer of your choice and with Justin, the host for the night, and then they took a Polaroid. Then they hung the Polaroids all up onstage for viewing and voting. Justin Bond has the Polaroids."
Today, the 32-year-old Morrison said there is "no chance" that he will drop out of the senate race because of the photos. "If people want to know about it, they should know that I won the contest," he told The Star-Ledger.
Cart said the revelations about the nude photos could make it even more difficult for Democrats to win the senate seat in a county where Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than a 3-to-1 ratio. "It's hard enough being a Democrat in Sussex County without having people think that we think this type of behavior is OK," he said.
07-02-03, 01:34 PM
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• Quoth nny •<HR SIZE=1>I don't remember this guy being gay. Did it come up on the show? <HR SIZE=1>
I would assume so. I thought it was a rule that all gay people on television must be exploited. Of course, The Mole is on ABC, and their sense of morality is so skewed sometimes that they could have adapted the rule to mean all gay people must be hidden from us for our own protection. Hard to say really.
das
07-02-03, 02:06 PM
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Originally posted by das Monkey
I would assume so. I thought it was a rule that all gay people on television must be exploited. Of course, The Mole is on ABC, and their sense of morality is so skewed sometimes that they could have adapted the rule to mean all gay people must be hidden from us for our own protection. Hard to say really.
das
• Quoth nny •<HR SIZE=1>I don't remember this guy being gay. Did it come up on the show? <HR SIZE=1>
I would assume so. I thought it was a rule that all gay people on television must be exploited. Of course, The Mole is on ABC, and their sense of morality is so skewed sometimes that they could have adapted the rule to mean all gay people must be hidden from us for our own protection. Hard to say really.
das
Yeah, his being gay was mentioned in passing at least once or twice, but was never much of a storyline.
No, Sky, I don't think the pictures are on the web anywhere... Just sounds like a few closeup poloroids, so I don't know how it became an issue, unless he talked about it himself--which it sounds like he might do...
