Larry Flynt called Mad Miss Mattie!

I thought it was worth reposting for a fun Saturday morning!-ED

You knew this week has just been too crazy not to ask what Mad Miss Mattie thinks. So here you have it.



Read about all this in the previous posts, particularly Thursday's. And you can find out what Mad Miss Mattie is talking about re: Ralph Gonzales, Patrick McHenry, Jason Drake, and escort service client lists of Republicans and a tragic murder/suicide.

Kruezer denounces disinformation campaign launched at this site and others

I really thought this story couldn't get any weirder. Well, it has. Apparently, we at Pat Go Bye bye have struck a nerve. A big one. At this post and this one.

And now Pat Go Bye Bye is officially the target of a McHenry-related disinformation campaign to discredit, of all people, a gay porn blogger. Damon Kruezer.

Why would McHenry's friends spend energy trying to discredit a gay porn blogger, you might ask? After all, you'd think they would be pretty busy thinking up ways to defend him from his obvious connection to a staffer guilty of voter fraud, (in an election Pat won by only 85 votes). Then there's the problem with his friend Ralph Gonzalez being murdered allegedly by his other friend Jason Drake. Let's not forget his financial disclosure debacles, and the ass he made of himself nationally over earmarks. And then this weekend his freaked-out-looking deputy field director blew a point one three.

But you know political consultants these days. I guess they just sat him down (maybe over drinks with Brett) and said something like "Hey Pat, things are bad but really you need to focus on this dude, Damon Kruezer, who interviews hot young homosexual pornographic video actors.

"Yeah, Pat, think about it. He's saying your buddy Jason Drake, now accused of a double murder, also has a connection to some other murder case in Pennsylvania no one in North Carolina has heard of.

"So here's the plan, honey child. If anyone writes about the gay porn blogger's allegations tying Florida shooter Jason to nearly-beheaded porn king Bryan Kocis, you get your buddies to comment at those blog posts in four or five other identities what a liar this Kruezer porn guy is. Then, post as the gay porn blogger himself admitting that you did it to increase web traffic to your gay porn site where people can see tons of photos of truly gorgeous young gay porn actors.

That'll really take the attention away from the story."

If I was a professional political consultant I would certainly advocate that any Congressman get his friends to impersonate gay porn bloggers to make a story go away.

So, McHenry's buds came to my site (and Scrutiny Hooligans) and call Kruezer a known liar. And, as if that wasn't enough, then they had to post at this site (twice) an apparent confession using Damon's full name.

Here's what the actual gay porn blogger, Damon Kruezer, who has been impersonated twice here has to say:

WARNING: Beware the disinformation campaign involving phony emails and posts by impersonators trying to steal my identity. Purpose of these schemers is to distract you and deflect attention away from a powerful nationally known closeted Republican politician with everything to lose if the true story of his unsavory connections comes out. This is the reason why I have received a lucrative offer for my original May 14, 2007 interview with Harlow Cuadra and Joe Kerekes because in the interview, on tape, Harlow reveals the identity of his VIP Republican client, the man who actually funded BoyBatter in order to placate Harlow and Joe after at least 3 trysts with them and then-active duty military personnel working for them including Jason Drake. The only email I use is damon@kruezeratnight.com and I do not block my profile. This is yet another sign of just how hot this story and my documented involvement in it is getting. Critical mass this week I believe.

[Have you noticed that I keep repeated the phrase "gay porn blogger?" At first, I was a little leery of quoting from him. If you go back to the post, you'll see that mostly I quoted him on his common sense, not the most salacious allegations. But now that McHenry's buddies have come to my site impersonating him, I've decided to embrace the underbelly of American's ridiculous prudishness. Maybe I'll become a gay porn blogger myself one day. If you scroll down at his site (www.kruezeratnight.com), there are photos and interviews with some extremely hot looking young men . . . not a bad way to make a living, eh?]

But back to Kruezer's comments. FYI: Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes are accused murderers currently involved in a preliminary hearings for the Pennsylvania murder (and near decapitation) of rival gay porn video producer Bryan Kocis. Kruezer has repeatedly asserted that Jason Drake allegedly shot Republican political operative Ralph Gonzalez in Florida last month in connection to that murder trial. Cuadra and Kerekes are reported to have lists of Republican officials who are clients to their Virginia Beach or Norfolk gay escort service.

How this convoluted story turned into motivation for a murder suicide is beyond me. What I do know is once I even hinted at the potential connection between Drake and the Kocis murder, I became the target of a series of comments attacking Kruezer's veracity.

[I'm way too lazy tonight to do links. You'll have to google this names and sort through the information on your own.]

In both Monday and Tuesday's posts, my point was that it's highly suspicious that the traditional media has basically ignored the Florida murder suicide: a sensational story that juicily combines fundamentalist Christian politicians and homosexual consultants, election software tampering and this potential tie to a gay porn-related murder in Pennsylvania. I quoted Kruezer particularly on his observations about the media and specifics of the three involved.

Someone named Marc commented at that post that Kruezer was a known liar.

And someone using the blogger identity Damon Kruezer with a blocked profile posted this:

I must admit that I made the story up... it was simply done to try and draw more viewers to my blog.

Sorry.

Tuesday, I wrote that McHenry had confirmed the tie to Drake to Howie Klein at Down With Tyranny and also that the tie of Drake to the Pennsylvania murders had been questioned. More comments denouncing Kruezer followed as well as another supposed denial by Kruezer himself. The impostor this time had unblocked his profile but it still had no link to the website which was the supposed reason for the supposed lies.

This was the thread where someone named Jon defended Kruezer:

Damon Kruezer is indisputably the last reporter to talk with the Pennsylvania murder defendants in a recorded 90 minute interview before their arrest the next day.

He also received letters from them.

Damon Kruezer knew and did some copy writing/editing work for Bryan Kocis, the gayporn producer and murder victim, and may have received crucial files for safekeeping on a USB key sent to him by Kocis.

Damon Kruezer talked with Grant Roy and Sean Lockhart aka Brent Corrigan extensively.

Damon Kruezer has been interviewed by at least 7 different reporters for print and broadcast media, whether they quote him directly or use his material as deep background in their reports.

And you say Kruezer isn't a credible source? How is that?

BOTTOM LINE:

The disinformation and impersonation campaign against him proves he's on to something. Jealous queens are a dime a dozen in the gayporn industry, and Kruezer has stood the test of time.

September 6, 2007 8:41 PM

Then a blogger once again using DK's name:

Jon,

I appreciate your support, but the truth is... I did lie.

There are commenters named walter, marc, wesley and Dunkin' on my posts here and at Scrutiny Hooligans.

An awful lot of work to denounce a story, don't you think? If I was predisposed to think the whole thing sensationally unbelievable before, I certainly am not now. Since I have other sources tying the Florida murder to McHenry long before I'd ever heard of Drake or Gonzalez, methinks these folks are protesting a bit too much.

McHenry admits ties to Drake, Drake's tie to porn murder called a ruse

The story of the Florida double murder and suicide of three Republican activists with ties to McHenry gets stranger and stranger every day. We were the first to report off-the-record sources tying McHenry to victim and dirty-tricks operative Ralph Gonzalez.

We've reported that the North Carolina Conservative has tied McHenry to the shooter, Jason Robert Drake (who has ties to Rutherford County and was buried there.

But now, according to Howie Klein Down With Tyranny McHenry's staff is admitting the connection:

As we mentioned yesterday, Drake, a former marine, also is alleged to have a strong relationship-- both intimate and business/political-- with right-wing Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC). When I spoke to McHenry's office about this they at first insisted they never heard of Drake then, confronted with specifics, admitted they know him. They refused to put Congressman McHenry on the phone. There is every indication that McHenry may have been one of the Republican elected officials who was using the services of the gay prostitution agency connected to Drake. Our pals over at the BradBlog points out the connections between Florida's ultra-corrupt, vote-tampering congressman, Tom Feeney, and Gonzalez and reports the threat to expose the list of Republican elected officials who were using the gay escort service.

I have several sources connecting McHenry professionally with shooter Drake and with victim Gonzalez. This is the first on-the-record confirmation of a relationship of any kind. The escort service/gay porn connection has yet to be made on the record as far as I know.

Again, this story is so bizarre. I can't reiterate enough the oddity of the police comments. They originally said August 23 that the murder/suicide was the result of a lover's triangle. On August 27 they're saying

"What prompted him to go in and commit that crime remains undetermined and may never be known," Picanzo said. "We have had so many different and conflicting statements from people."

Since when do the police say the crime motive will never been known this early in an investigation? It makes no sense.

On another front, the source who repeatedly tied Jason Drake to the porn industry and escort service now says he made it all up. Or someone posted on my site using his name . . . Damon Kruezer, a blogger who covers the gay porn industry, has written repeatedly that Jason Drake was attempting to blackmail the murder victims Gonzalez for money to pay for the legal case of his supposed lover, Harlow Cuadra. Someone using his name (but blocking his profile) commented on my earlier post:

I must admit that I made the story up... it was simply done to try and draw more viewers to my blog.

Sorry.

I have no idea if this is the actual Damon Kreuzer. I have seen several comments by him and others denouncing his story. I have heard off-the-record sources confirm that it is true. Howie Klein has the same information I do and continues to post that McHenry and Drake were lovers.

Even if it's the real Damon Kruezer who is denying his original story, the points he made on his website, and also at the Howie Klein's post at Down With Tyranny, (who had linked to my BlueNC post) are still valid:

The fact that prominent Republicans were liquidated in this manner should raise major warning signs . . . Yet, the mainstream media have consistently downplayed it and done no followup. You have to wonder why.

And let's not forget that, more importantly, Gonzalez, who was out to his friends, had ties to Ralph Reed when he took over the Georgia Republican Party and used unethical tactics to beat Senator Max Cleland. He was also the campaign chair for the ethically-challenged Tom Feeney's  congressional campaign as well as his state rep campaign after which Feeney became house speaker and got involved in a  software-buying scandal involving Yang Enterprise.   Feeney is best known for his vote-rigging scheme (which has ties to an unexplained death of a Florida state investigator in Valdosta GA), Jack Abramoff, and a variety of unethical smear tactics against Democratic candidates.

Meanwhile, others are still looking for the tie between Drake and the Pennsylvania porn murder trial. I have other sources who say McHenry has ties to organized homosexual predatory behavior. Nothing on this particular gay escort service out of Norfolk/Virginia Beach.

So far.

Traditional media ignores Gonzalez/Abrami/Drake murder suicide, much less its tie to prominent republicans

Several national blogs have picked up on Pat Go Bye Bye's Thursday report on the McHenry connection to a Florida murder/suicide involving three Republican political consultants with ties to gay porn, gay escort service, lists of Republican clients, dirty political tricks, as well as software manipulation of the Florida vote.

But where's the traditional press?

What isn't being discussed, however, is that the murder/suicide is not being treated respectfully by the local police or by the traditional media. Even if Jason Drake has no connection with the murder trial in Pennsylvania, he certainly has ties to Republican 

In one of the comment threads at Down With Tyranny, I noted this:

The fact that prominent Republicans with so many interesting connections were liquidated in this manner should raise major warning signs. This thing has black ops written all over it. Yet the mainstream media have consistently downplayed it and done no followup. You have to wonder why.

Many on the internet who claim to know about Drake's back story say Drake shot his friend and business partner Ralph Gonzalez over requests for money for the defense of his accused lover Harlow Cuadra. Cuadro has been charged with the murder of a fellow porn producer Bryan Kocis. He allegedly was in need of funds because the state of Virginia had recent seized his assets (because they were the results of illegal activity, a homosexual escort service out of Virginia Beach as well as the homosexual video porn). His probable cause hearing for the Pennsylvania murder is ongoing.

There's also lots of chatter about Drake having Cuadro's list of the escort service's Republican clients of the escort service.

Where's the traditional media? Kruezer's site (which covers the porn industry) gets three million hits a month (with interviews and no nudity) so he's clearly being read by somebody. You can't tell me that reporters and editors all up and down the east coast don't know all about this stuff.

Why aren't they reporting on how odd the police have been acting?First, they say the murder/suicide is a lover's triangle gone bad. Then they say that they have so much conflicting information they might never figure out what was the motivation. Both conclusions are ridiculously premature and unprofessional. Why doesn''t the media talk about that, at the very least?

Of course, we here at Pat Go Bye Bye are more interested in McHenry's ties to all this. Ralph Gonzalez consulted for McHenry, has done dirty tricks for Rep. Tom Feeney when he ran for state house and also when he ran for Congress. He helped defeat Max Cleland with more dirty tricks. Jason Drake is tied to Rutherford County and was reported to work for McHenry on local races of interest to the McHenry gang. What other ties did these dirty tricksters and sexually active homosexuals have to McHenry? Perhaps the traditional media could start by giving Aaron Latham a call and asking for an on-the-record response.

Here's more from Damon Kruezer:

DAMON's TAKE: Something is rotten in Denmark. I don't buy the story so far. An investigation is what's needed, by neutral parties and without diversions and distractions. In the KRUEZER VIEW, Gonzalez and Abrami were not murdered as a result of some emotional extremes, but were deliberately executed as a result of a pre-arranged plan using Drake as the apparent triggerman, quite possibly not realizing he was to die too until his "suicide" could not be stopped.

The fact that prominent Republicans with so many interesting connections were liquidated in this manner should raise major warning signs. This thing has black ops written all over it. Yet the mainstream media have consistently downplayed it and done no followup. You have to wonder why.

If this was a gay Democratic consultant and his housemate being murdered by a possibly gay ex Marine who may have worked for Harlow Cuadra and Joe Kerekes, you know the media would be all over this. We'll be watching this situation closely as the official Florida investigation proceeds.

More from Kruezer:

About the triple murder involving a former Marine named "Drake" and the Republican bigwig . . . I suggest that we should not forget the Feeney angle. He was implicated in the 2004 vote rigging situation. Could it be that Gonzalez was getting ready to let it all come out?

From the Orange County sheriff comes word that ex-Marine Jason Robert Drake killed the 2 Republican consultants before turning the gun on himself. They claim to have discovered no motivation for the double murder/suicide and there's nothing that Drake left behind that might help.

The kingpin of this skein, Ralph Gonzalez was apparently gay, and early reports made tantalizing mention of a "love triangle," but now it’s subject to interpretation.

The other murder victim, David Abrami, a former political consultant, was Gonzalez’s "housemate" - a probable bisexual.

Several emails have come in claiming that the "Drake" involved performed in several Boybatter films in 2006. Hard to confirm given the current state of BBatter.

Big Week for Pat Go Bye Bye!

Monday you learned that Pat might not live where he votes. Gee, that's what? The four cases of voter fraud he's been tied to. Either that or he's got an unreported asset and that begs the question, what is he hiding? How he acquired his Hickory condo or just the financing thereof?

Tuesday we posted and discussed McHenry's original financial disclosures from February, 2004. He has previously unreported ties to a local businessman and blogger. It reads like a trashy romance!

Wednesday was a break in things. No, it wasn't. This was the story. What IS with Republicans and their repressed sex drives?

Thursday it was all about dirty tricks and corruption. We had already learned on Friday that was Pat involved with recent murder victim Ralph Gonzalez of Florida and Georgia ethics issues (including ties to Jack Abramoff and vote manipulation. But the North Carolina Conservative told us that not only McHenry was also tied to Jason Drake, who police say was the shooter.

Drake has also been tied to accused murderer Harlow Cuadra, apparently works or runs an escort service or porn business out of Virginia Beach. It's all over the tubes that there exist lists of republican clients for a call-boy service and that Drake was threatening to expose them if Gonzalez didn't give him money to help pay for Cuadra's defense for a Pennsylvania murder.

The unconfirmed allegations make for interesting speculation. What we do know is that Ralph Gonzalez is tied to several scandals with loads of documentation and McHenry has buried his political past, white washing his ties to all kinds of nasty political operations. Wonder what we'll learn this coming week?

Stay tuned, folks.

Ties Between Florida Murder/Suicide, McHenry

Buried in a terribly sad story over at the North Carolina Conservative are some interesting local tidbits.

Florida police are saying that Jason Robert Drake,* left, shot two republican political consultants, Ralph Gonzalez and David Abrami, and then himself last week. What they're not saying is why. After first calling it a lover's triangle, they're now saying:

Drake was found carrying a firearm and backpack full of ammunition. Deputies said in a short statement witnesses had mentioned "a number of potential motives."

NCC editor Judson Cox has done some digging and come up with a convoluted story that involves another murder in Pennsylvania, several video and still male-on-male porn sites, and a call-boy service in Virginia. Go read for yourself but I'd advise you not to follow the some of the links in the articles I link to unless you don't mind male nudity and more at your computer.

What caught my eye in the locally-oriented NCC article was the last paragraph and I'll quote it here:

Sources tell The North Carolina Conservative that Drake volunteered on several Republican campaigns in western North Carolina, and was an associate of Congressman Patrick McHenry. Gonzalez is also believed to have been associated with McHenry in the past. Since being elected, McHenry has attempted to insure that all elected officials in his district are his supporters and cronies. This has caused a very nasty political war of attrition in the 10th District. Sources say that Drake worked on these campaigns as a surrogate of McHenry.

Pat Go Bye Bye readers will recall that I wrote of the McHenry connection last Friday. I have two off-the-record sources tying Gonzales to McHenry (and one wacky dude.) At the time I didn't have the information that Drake had ties to Rutherford County. (I've since read where he was coming there to be buried but can no longer find the link.)

For those of you who didn't follow those links for the Florida Gonzalez/Abrami/Drake murder/suicide story's details, I'll just sum up the political end of things for you:

Gonzales (as Georgia Republican Party Executive Director) has close ties to Ralph Reed and the dirty tricks that defeated Senator Max Cleland in Georgia. Never forget they employed the confederate flag wedge issue hysteria. Never forget that Ralph Reed took over the Georgian Republican Party using Abramoff-forced Choctaw "donations."

And never forget that Abramoff knows all these guys. (Ever wonder why McHenry defends Charles Taylor so often and vehemently?)

Ralph Gonzalez also worked as now-Representative Tom Feeney's campaign manager who created a smear site against his Democratic opponent, Clint Curtis. Gonzalez was also Feeney's campaign manager when he ran for Florida state house to become it's speaker. He stayed on as a strategist and spokesman. There the ethics scandal involving influencing software purchases. He's tied to another indicted legislator, former Rep. Sheri McInvale.

Drake's history is less obtainable on the internet unless you follow blogs to porn sites which I do not have any interest in doing. Since he's from Rutherford County it's not hard to believe NCC's story that he worked on local campaigns.

All of this will give you some taste of what we're dealing with here. Even if the call boy Republican client list/gay porn movie actor/homosexual lovers triangles stories turn out to be completely fallacious, we're steal dealing with some ugly customers. And they're friends of Pat McHenry's.

Now, we know why, even though he's never bought or sold property (except for twice when he used a power of attorney), McHenry still perpetuates the myth that he's a real estate small businessman. He really really doesn't want anyone to know what he's been doing all these years. He wouldn't have won the primary if people knew. And he wouldn't get reelected.

[One thing adding to the confusion: The police call him Robert Jason Drake, his ex-wife calls him Jason Robert Drake. I went with the woman.]

NOTE: This text has some slight changes from the original due to new information. See comment numbers 3 & 4. -DQ

McHenry ally found dead with two other men in apparent murder/suicide

A Republican consultant with alleged ties to McHenry has been found dead in an apparent male threesome murder-suicide in Orlando today.

According to Max the Dog, a blogger at BlueNC, Florida Republican political consultant Ralph Gonzales consulted for McHenry in his 2004 Congressional race.

Here's what FOX news wrote:

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former campaign aide to a Florida congressman and two other men were found dead in a home in an apparent double-murder and suicide, authorities and relatives said.

Authorities have not determined a motive for the deaths of Ralph Gonzalez, 39, his roommate, David Abrami, 36, and a friend, Robert Drake, 30.

Investigators found weapons and signs of a struggle in the house, but they did not say what the weapons were or which man they believe was the killer. The men are believed to have died several days before the bodies were discovered Thursday.

Gonzalez was executive director of the Georgia Republican Party from 2001-2002. He managed U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney's 2002 campaign and was president of Strategum Group, an Orlando-based political consulting firm that represents Republican candidates.

"He was a born political consultant. He had bravado, he was intense, and he lived and breathed tactics and strategy," Feeney said. "He was an adviser and strategist for me and became a very good friend."