It looks like things are back to a deviant normal at the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Last night, Johnathan Hernandez – an employee with the State Senate who briefly worked as a campaign manager for State School superintendent candidate Ryan Walters, and has volunteered his time for numerous political campaigns and the GOP College Republicans – was arrested on charges of sodomy and lewd or indecent proposals or acts to a child...
UPDATE: Five minutes after I hit publish, we acquired the affidavit. Read it here.
A few weeks ago, we got an email from an Ogle Mole claiming they've "heard whispers" that Hernandez, who is 21, acted "inappropriately" towards a high school Senate page or two. They said the allegations were troubling enough that the Oklahoma Senate either launched – or was thinking about launching – an investigation into the matter.
The Mole also claimed they were concerned the accusations "would be swept under the rug" by those in charge in the State GOP. I can see why...
Although I doubt most Evangelical politicians (See: Lankford, James) really care that a 21-year-old youth minister type was allegedly trying to hook up with underage girls – they're more concerned about where teens use the bathroom, right? – they are image-conscious folks, and Hernandez has been photographed with enough Oklahoma politicians that I'm pretty sure they would all love for this story to go away...