Sunday, January 07, 2007

City Politics, Bad Taste, and Sean Holbrook

Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati

Sean Holbrook, a politically inexperienced kid who says he wants to run for City Council, has fallen under intense scrutiny after his “VoteHolbrook07” public Photobucket account was found boasting pornographic pictures between him and his girlfriend.  (Here is Holbrook admitting to the offense.) Holbrook also made other admissions, as in indicating that he used to run a website named “WitheredOaks.com,”—which is no longer online.  However, thanks to The Way Back Machine, much of Holbrook’s old web page can still be accessed.  The results are not pretty.

The Cincinnati Beacon is not going to link directly to extremely offensive, grotesque, and pornographic images—but The Way Back Machine does allow users to access fingerprints from the old WitheredOaks.com web page.  Many of the images are no longer online, but several from the front page have been archived.  They include nude photos of an extremely elderly woman, as well as homosexual group sex between three elderly men.  There is no indication that the site ever had any disclaimers.  We warn you to load the page at your own risk.

Some of the links through the Way Back Machine are still operable, and you can find fingerprints of other material from Sean Holbrook’s old webpage—including stories featuring Holbrook’s “fictional character” performing lewd acts on a “Hitler mask” (the pictures for that story have not been archived), as well as a narrative wherein Holbrook seems to have harassed some teenaged boys at MySpace.  He actually links to the two profiles in question, and one seems to still be an active profile.

We considered contacting the active MySpace profile named in the story, but if he is a juvenile we did not want to expose him again to the material discussed at WitheredOaks.com.

Sean Holbrook has apparently been complaining about our coverage of his campaign at the web forums for a group called Totse.  He uses the handle “Bloody Diaper Man,” and a page from The Way Back Machine seems to detail the history of that name.  Thankfully, none of those pictures have been archived. 

However, Holbrook has accused us of being immature and of trying to smear his name.  This brings us to an interesting inquiry.

In 2005, several young people ran for City Council—including a young man named Robert Wilson.  He recently submitted this comment about Sean Holbrook:

I understand and respect Wilson’s view on this point.  While it is not fair to hold someone to their pasts forever—people do grow, mature, and develop into different people, after all—Sean Holbrook has still not made an accounting of these details.  In fact, he still posts at the Totse website under the name “Bloody Diaper Man.”

Can an individual such as this effectively lead our City?  I ask the question honestly.  Can Holbrook overcome his past?  If so, how?  Should he account for this material?  In what manner?

Socializer!

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Fresh from his website says:
07 Jan 2007  at  10:43 am | #

Hey Look!  He updated his campaign website:
http://www.holbrookcincinnati.com/

KFed says:
07 Jan 2007  at  11:58 am | #

I agree with Robert Wilson that Victor Phillips, Andrew Warner, Nick Spencer and himself may not have been perfect candidates, but they seemed very sincere in their desire to move this city forward.

Holbrook’s refusal to answer legitimate questions, (not to mention the pornographic and spoof campaign pictures) puts him in a different league. Little league!

Sorry Bloody Diaperman!

Bloody Diaperman 07! says:
07 Jan 2007  at  01:02 pm | #

Becareful Dean, the totse’s are on to you and they may take your comments to the news outlets here. Moldy A$$h*&# and Bloody Diaperman are pissed. Sean aka Bloody Diaperman makes a good point about respective reporting.

the moldy asshole
Regular posted 01-06-2007 22:00

“What a crappy online newspaper. The journalist guy just called totse tasteless, and is making assumptions about black people.
what a jerk, if he keeps it up im taking the screencapture of that comment and im going to send it to the news outlets here, let him have a taste of his own medicine.”

bloodydiaperman
Regular posted 01-06-2007 22:29

“Don’t do that. They are entitled to their own opinions just like we are entitled to are own. If they want to smear my name and accuse me of being some kind of pervert that is fine, let them. I know it is untrue and any respective reporters who checks their facts will probably uncover the truths of this situation very quickly.
My involvement with the suicide club and cacophony society, is being way over played by these guys.
But to start taking their words and trying to go to the press would take us to a lower level, a level they may be comfortable with but im not.”

I’m glad to see Bloody Diaperman is keeping his cool and showing a level of maturity not often seen in the political world. He’s not sinking down to the level that the Dean is so comfortable with and for that I applaud him.

Bloody Diaperman 07!

me says:
07 Jan 2007  at  10:53 pm | #

wtf?  clearly it is still January and the election is 11 months away...fortunately, we won’t hear from this douche again in a few months when he doesn’t get any signatures and can’t raise any money

says:
08 Jan 2007  at  06:03 am | #

Now that we have written these two articles, Holbrook has turned his campaign page into a slam of Andrew Warner.  He is also acting like we have fed into his “plans.” As if the porn pictures were planted, just waiting for someone to find them, so they could be taken down and made to seem like a scandal.

But now, they say they are so offended by our attitude toward them, that they have decided to run for real.

Whatever. 

Enough of this guy.

says:
08 Jan 2007  at  01:01 pm | #

You can’t be done with me already, I thought we were friends The Dean.
If you looked into matters for real, you would see that witheredoaks.com was never registered to me, and was based on a character in a novel I had written. You need to stop taking yourself so seriously, and realize how ridiculous this all is, naked pictures, elderly nude women, beastiality statements.
I know you have a genuine care for this city and what happens here, but you don’t have to go on such a warpath against me, if I am really that horrible and evil, people will figure it out on their own. I am happy that there are people like yourself trying to protect the integrity of the local political system, but don’t be blinded.
What is worse? A strange writer from the city who likes playing jokes, and knows he has no real chance of winning but wants to show people that politics just doesn’t have to be about the same type of candidates over and over again, who are not allowed to be human and so afraid that they may sneeze the wrong way, that they end up being untruthful to protect their names and family from being dragged through the mud by the press. Or The same recylced politicians that we elect over and over again to positions in this city, people who were born into money that really don’t care about those less fortunate? The same people who will not vote what their heart says is right, but instead what their party wants.
Would the fact that I have a strange and maybe vulgar sense of humor, mean that I would vote the wrong way when it comes to doing what is right for the city in my heart.
Honestly The Dean, If elected I would be the only person on that council to say, “Hey guys, what the fuck is wrong with you. How dare you try and cut funding for a neighborhood health clinic.” I probably wouldn’t use the word fuck in a meeting, but you get my point.
I’m the type of person who can’t be scared away from running, if im carrying 0% on the day before elections you can bet my butt will be out there trying my best. I don’t care that I’m a total underdog and social reject, it just makes me want to fight that much harder. You could post pictures of me spraying agent orange on school children, while high fiving Stalin, and I still wouldn’t give up. I know what it is to be an underdog, and just like Rocky Im going to go out there and Im going to get my ass beat round after round, while being called a chump without a chance, but I’ll promise you this. In the end I will still be standing.
Because those I want to represent deserve it, they deserve someone who is going to say, “Hey we may be different, we may be black, we may be gay, we may be transexual freedom fighter, we might like getting blowjobs on film, we may enjoy perverse humor, we may be single parents who are looked down on for being poor, we may old, we may be on social security, we may be on food stamps or welfare, but we still pay our taxes (be them property, income, or sales), and we still deserve to have as much of a voice in politics as anyone else, even The Dean.”

Dirty Diaperman says:
08 Jan 2007  at  01:27 pm | #

"Now that we have written these two articles, Holbrook has turned his campaign page into a slam of Andrew Warner.”

Why would he slam Andrew Warner? Warner never said anything about this guy? I bet this moron thinks Andrew is the Dean of Cincinnati.

You would think he’d go after Robert Wilson who gave him a nice smack down. Or that he might grow up and move on. I can’t wait for his responses to the Dean’s questions. I hope he asked some good ones.

funnelcake says:
08 Jan 2007  at  04:47 pm | #

OK. Let’s cut to the chase.  What’s your position on dog porn?

says:
08 Jan 2007  at  05:16 pm | #

Whatever two loving dogs do in the privacy of their own doghouse with a camera is their business. Now for professional dog porn, I believe that it should be regulated with the performers being tested every month for heartworms, ticks, and mange at a designated clinic. Keeping the performers safe should be the first priority. While Dog Porn is not a crime, anyone who hires dogs under 3 years of age should face tough action.

Luke says:
08 Jan 2007  at  06:22 pm | #

Funnelcake, don’t you mean “what’s your favorite position IN dog porn?”

Or do you mean, how does Holbrook feel about the City offering universal health care, and dog porn?

says:
09 Jan 2007  at  07:16 pm | #

There’s just one thing I don’t get…

What’s the relationship between Witheredoaks.com and somebody’s political profile? George Bush admitted smoking marijuana (forgot which drug), and he was an alcoholic, but do people complain about what he does inside his own home? No, nobody cares.

If a person can be responsible in office, and jerk around in the inside of his own home, then it really doesn’t matter.

And this article is a waste/smear campaign.

xian says:
29 Mar 2007  at  09:19 pm | #

Wow who the hell would rat you out. People need to learn to keep their mouths shut about what happened in the past. Best of luck to you,

_xian

Laundrysoap (totse) says:
03 Jun 2007  at  12:00 am | #

Hey Sean,

I don’t know if you know me or not, but I post on totse, and wish you the best of luck in your campaign. Show everybody that totse isn’t some kind of shelter for weirdos(like this article would like for you to believe), and that we’re productive members of society.

says:
09 Jul 2007  at  03:42 am | #

Ah, gutter journalism at it’s finest.
Nothing like a good old fashioned smear campaign to conveniently draw attention away from the other candidates shortcomings. As for remarks about Totse, unlike you, Totse at least promotes freedom of speech.