Buckley criminal investigation linked to National Stonewall Democrats in media

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The unfolding criminal investigation of Raymond Buckley has quickly caught up with the National Stonewall Democrats, as we predicted.

Buckley is the New Hampshire Democratic Party officer and National Stonewall Democrats board member who is under criminal investigation following a complaint related to pornography (see Stonewall Review; "National Stonewall Democrats stunner -- Board member Raymond Buckley under criminal investigation"; January 05, 2007; http://stonewallreview.blogspot.com/2007/01/national-stonewall-democrats-stunner.html ). It is still not clear if the pornography in question involves underage subjects.

We stated that Buckley should resign or be removed from the National Stonewall Democrats board of directors before a journalist Googled Buckley's name and connected the unfolding criminal investigation scandal with NSD.

Too late.

The Union Leader is now reporting that Buckley "is a national at-large board member of the National Stonewall Democrats, a lobbying group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered party activists."

As we stated before, Buckley's NSD board seat does not belong to him; he holds it in trust on behalf of the members of the National Stonewall Democrats. Buckley needs to step down or be removed immediately to protect the organization and its members, and NSD needs to remove all references to his name from its web site. Whatever the eventual disposition of the criminal investigation against him, Buckley needs to get his house in order, and he must not be permitted to drag the National Stonewall Democrats through his ordeal. We further fear that it is just a matter of time before the mainstream media drag Barney Frank's name into all of this as the founder of NSD.

Expect to see presidential candidates duck for cover as well. In his role as a New Hampshire Democratic Party officer, Buckley has managed to have his picture taken with just about every Democrat who looked in a mirror in the last decade and saw a future President. If the Clinton, Edwards, and Obama camps have any sense, they have already purged their digital image databases of all "little buddy" pictures that their candidates ever took with Buckley.

This isn't going to be over for quite a while, and it promises to get more sordid.

The latest Union Leader article is at www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Allegations+end+Buckley+race&articleId=d893c15d-b260-401f-bb08-1fdb18c40f9c .