Former Oklahoma State Sen. Ralph Shortey is in trouble for soliciting sex from a shorty.

The family-values Republican is accused of taking a 17-year-old male to a hotel room for some pot smoking and “sexual stuff.”

As dicey as that sounds, things went downhill once the marijuana smell attracted the attention of cops ...

Former State Sen. Ralph Shortey (Image via KFOR)

Crime Watch Daily: Republican State Sen. Ralph Shortey — who resigned shortly after being caught in a motel room with a 17-year-old he'd met on Craigslist the previous year — has been charged with two counts of transportation of child pornography, production of child pornography and child sex trafficking. The porn charges are apparently the result of his using devices to send sexually explicit video of prepubescent children, the sex trafficking relates to the incident in the motel (the age of consent in Oklahoma is 16, but anything under 18 is considered child prostitution). The next time a Republican whines about Democrats and gay people, remind them of this case or any of the other countless ones just like it.

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