Harry Hope wrote:
> Franz unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for state representative in
> the 47th District in Kent in 2006.
>
> He campaigned partly on a platform of an extensive and honorable
> military career.
>
>
> From The Seattle Times, 5/15/08:
>
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004415536_arrest15m.html
>
> Seattle U. prof held in online *** sting
>
> By Haley Edwards
> Seattle Times staff re****ter
>
>
> A Seattle University professor was arrested in Colorado Friday and
> charged with intended ***ual contact with an underage girl he'd met
> online.
>
> Andrew Douglas Franz, 41, was arrested by a Fremont County, Colo.,
> investigative team when he flew into a town near Colorado Springs,
> said Canon City police.
>
> Franz, of Kent, traveled to meet an underage girl he had been
> corresponding with online, police said.
>
> Franz had actually been corresponding with members of the Fremont
> County Combined Investigative Response Team, a law-enforcement team
> that focuses on Internet crimes against children.
>
> Franz is being held at the Fremont County Detention Center in lieu of
> $50,000 bond, police said.
>
> He has been charged with seven felonies and one misdemeanor, including
> ***ual assault on a child, soliciting for child prostitution,
> inducement of child prostitution and trafficking in children.
>
> __________________________________________________
>
> Another day another Republican scandal.
>
> Harry
If he'd only watched MSNBC Predator shows instead of Fox News he might
have saved himself some time in the pokey.
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