RAW STORY
A candidate running to represent Michigan’s 95th House district in
the state legislature wants you to know that once you look past his
bizarre sexual fetish and multiple felony convictions, he is a
rock-ribbed conservative Republican, whose “stool of conservatism” is
held up by “faith, family and freedom.”
Michigan Live reported Friday
that Saginaw’s Jordan D. Haskins dismisses the arrests and prison time
as the results of youthful indiscretion and said that he is ready to
“move on from that and do what I can” to serve his state as a Republican
state Representative.
“I have dreams,” Haskins said to Michigan Live, “and I want to make a difference.”
Haskins, 24, has served prison time in two states and is currently on
parole, but there are no rules preventing him from running for the
state House.
On four occasions between April of 2010 and January of 2011, Haskins
broke into vehicles on public and private property, disconnected the
ignition wires, then started the engine. As the wires snapped and spit
sparks, Haskins would masturbate to climax in a sexualized ritual he
calls “cranking.”
Haskins has lived in Michigan and North Carolina and has lengthy
criminal records in both states, dating back to the age of 15. Early
offenses had mostly to do with breaking into cars and going on joyrides.
“I was just a lonely, angry kid at the time,” he said. “If anything, I could be put on ‘World’s Dumbest Criminals.’”
Michigan Live said,
“North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety reports a lengthy list of
sentences to prison, county jail and probation for offenses Haskins
committed in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The offenses include breaking
and entering, larceny and trespassing.”
It was once he returned to Michigan, however, that Haskins started
seeking sexual gratification from breaking into vehicles. He repeatedly
broke into the lot where Saginaw Mosquito Control stored its sprayer
trucks and other equipment.
Police reports obtained by Michigan Live say that “Jordan would
remove the spark plug wires and sit in the car and masturbate while the
motor was sparking and making noises.”
On another occasion, he broke into a lot where sheriff’s cruisers
were parked. He confessed to joyriding around the lot and masturbating
in a police cruiser and a truck. Then in January of 2011, he jumped a
fence and broke into car repair business Scientific Brake and, police
said, later admitted to joyriding in a truck, then “listening to the
engine idle and masturbating.”
It is a fetish Haskins said he learned about online. For some
“cranking” or “pedal-pumping” fetishists, participants derive sexual
satisfaction from watching a man or woman who they desire struggle to start a stalled car,
cranking the engine and pumping the gas pedal against the floor. In
other cases, as with Haskins, the fetish revolves around starting the
car oneself and masturbating.
Jalopnik reported that U.K. newspaper the Independent carried an article about the fetish, describing it as a growing trend.
Haskins said to the Saginaw News, “I was in a messed-up
state of mind mentally and emotionally when I did what I did. That’s the
only way I can even explain it.”
“I really had no friends at the time,” he said. “I didn’t really know
what I wanted to do. I was one of those young people who grew up
without a father in the house, grew up with his grandmother and his mom.
I just didn’t really know what I wanted to do, what my purpose was,
where I wanted to go.”
He hopes now that voters will see him as the man he is, rather than
the troubled teen he was. Haskins said that he has found “my niche, my
passion” in conservative politics.
“That isn’t even me anymore. I’m not sure what really changed or what
happened. I don’t know what it is about when you get into your 20s.
Your chemistry changes. You get wiser and smarter a little bit. That’s
what happened to me,” he said.
Haskins is running in a heavily Democratic district, but he believes that his values will help him connect to voters.
“I want to be the Republican, the conservative candidate that says,
you know, conservatism is for you. Because conservatism, real
conservatism, true red-blooded American conservatism is about grit, hard
work, loyalty and traditional values. Your family values,” he said.
“The three values that make up my stool of conservatism are faith,
family and freedom,” Haskins said. “And I believe that many of the
citizens of Saginaw share those same values.”
The primary to choose his Democratic challenger will take place in August.
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