Confusion

Ever once in awhile current events make me discombobulated, confused, fucked up in the head. I throw this out with the hope that someone can tell me what the fuck is going on? Several months ago here in Oregon one of our former Governors, Neil Goldshmidt, admitted to having a long term relationship with a thirteen to fourteen year old girl while he was a mayor of Portland in the 1970s. He was in his mid-thirties with a family and a national spot light because of his young age as a mayor of a major city. He was young, viberant, Jewish and very liberal. He eventually got tapped as Jimmy Carter's Sec. of Transportation. Off he went to fame and fortune in Washington D.C. When he returned several years later he ran for Governor and won huge. But he bailed out of running for re-election four years later saying he needed time with his family. Shortly after he left office he was divorced. So it goes.

Then this last summer the press got news he had had a sexual relationship with a young teen when he was mayor. He finally came out and admitted to having "an affair for sometime with the girl". The legislature was embarrassed because he had been their favorite gov. So to show how mad they were they removed his portrait that was hanging in the capital and that was that.
Here is where my confusion comes into play. How does a man in his 30's have an affair with a teeny bopper? We're not talking 17 or 18. But rather 13 and 14.

If we are going to run perv priest up the rail for boinking young altar boys 20 plus years ago why not mayors? Is it because little girls are easier to buy into than boys?

In Salem Oregon a very popular music teacher has recently admitted to having sex with a 13 and 14 year old girl and the same town that once carried the mayor around town on their shoulders as a favorite son wants to fry this teacher, but if you bring up the ex-gov they all say that's different. How's it different?

This is the same state that called for US Senator Bob Packwood's ass for stealing kisses and butt pats after he had been drinking too much wine. Also in the 1970s apparently Packwood was messing around with adult women when he had too much of the grape and when it came to light in the mid-90's they ran the guy out of town. The state of Oregon, Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy and the Clinton administration heralded the US Solicitor General Kenneth Starr for going after Packwood and driving the leach from office. Yet a few years later the same people were pissed at Starr for daring to fuck with Clinton. I don't get it? It seems nuts to me.

I have no problem throwing someone in jail for messing with kids in any sexual fashion but why is it only applied to conservative-types or religous-types and not to the so called protectors of progress? Am I missing something here?