crim + legislation = registered sex offender

i was talking to a friend who works in the state legislature earlier this evening and he pointed me to this ironic story. i am often skeptical of so-called irony after Alanis Morissette's "isn't it ironic, don't you think?" but i believe this fits perfectly.

GONGWER (weird name) news service is apparently the news service of the Ohio Statehouse. This afternoon they issued the following story: "Ex-Lawyer Convicted in Statehouse Sting Joins Hundreds Challenging Sex Offender Classifications". The link will only work at Moritz, because this is a subscription news service. My source at the Statehouse told me a bit more about the juicy non-legal questions than the article has to offer. You can get the gist below.

Police caught this lawyer soliciting sex with an officer posed as a minor on a field trip about two years ago at the Ohio Statehouse (the lawyer found the officer posing as a minor online). Only a little weird, so far, but don't worry it gets better. They caught the lawyer during a Senate committee hearing on the sex offender law he seeks to challenge. My friend at the Statehouse tells me that the Senate Judiciary committee chair actually stopped the committee hearing so the officers could go through with the sting. props to the committee chair.

why would you do something patently illegal at the Statehouse?
isn't that where they make the laws?
this guy was a lawyer?
where did he go to school?
what in the world was he thinking?
apparently he has a problem - at least one

so a sex offender gets caught during a committee hearing on a bill he now seeks to challenge. that's ironic, right?

oh, and yes, i know it is a friday night.