Alleged Crist Lover Charged with Theft

By Julie Bolcer

A young Republican staffer who allegedly had an affair with Florida governor Charlie Crist was slapped with felony charges on August 5 for stealing nearly $20,000 worth of property from a pastor's daughter, reports the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.

Fort Lauderdale police charged Jason Wetherington (pictured, left), who appeared in the Outrage documentary, with grand larceny, dealing in stolen property and false verification of ownership stemming from his late July house-sitting gig in Las Olas for Jennifer Thompson Jones. She is the daughter of the Reverend Larry Thompson, leader of the influential First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale, where Wetherington is a member.

Wetherington is accused of stealing three of Thompson's rings, including her wedding and engagement rings, then pawning them at a shop in Deerfield Beach July 20. In a message circulated on Facebook, Thompson said that Wetherington "confessed" to stealing her wedding ring and selling it, as well as stealing $5,000 from her parents' safe, an accusation not included among the official charges.

Reached in Georgia by Bob Norman of the New Times, Wetherington declined to comment.

Wetherington, 24, rose quickly in the GOP ranks as a teen, and served as regional field director for former Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris's failed 2006 bid for the U.S. senate. During that time, he came out to Thompson and told numerous people that he was engaged in a sexual affair with Crist, then the state attorney general. Crist denied the accusation.

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Name: Frank
Date posted: 8/13/2009 3:03:00 PM
Hometown: Chatsworth

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Listen Adri ANUS: Why is it disgusting:? Probably because you haven't had a piece of tail in years..
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Name: Roger Burr
Date posted: 8/13/2009 10:15:00 AM
Hometown: Marble Hill, MO

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I'm as much an advocate of privacy as anyone else, but when LGBT people who choose to remain in the closet actively work against the LGBT community; I say, blow the whistle!! 'Ms.' Crist needs to be dragged, kicking and screaming if need be, into the light of public disclosure. It's time 'she' was OUTED!!! As for the alleged paramour; he IS cute, but a thief is a thief! I wonder what the folks at that Ft. Lauderdale BAPTIST church are thinking?
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Name: Adrianus
Date posted: 8/13/2009 1:28:00 AM
Hometown: Northridge, CA

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DISGUSTING!!!
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Name: BT
Date posted: 8/12/2009 11:23:00 PM
Hometown: Orlando

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Dude is cute. Just hide ur wallet & watch.
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Name: Eric
Date posted: 8/12/2009 10:06:00 PM
Hometown: NYC

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Crist is a the worst of the worst. He has alledgedly (wink, wink) been sleeping with men since college, is currently married (to a woman) and opposes all gay rights legislation. A true homophobe. While I am against outing anybody, his true colors need to be exposed due to his anti-gay stance. I wish he would just accept his sexual orientation, stop living a lie, and live an authentic life. Shame on you Mr. Crist
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Name: LuLu
Date posted: 8/12/2009 9:54:00 PM
Hometown: NYC

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Why haven't we heard this in the mainstream media ?
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Name: Proud to be a Gay Christian
Date posted: 8/12/2009 4:05:00 PM
Hometown: Fairfax, VA

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Sam, Sam B and Mark: I go to a very accepting and affirming Baptist church in northern virginia. They were once a part of the Southern Baptist Convention but withdrew several years ago because they did not agree with the ultra conservative, negative views toward gays. So there are a growing number of Baptist churches that are focused on the love of God instead of the hatred that so many of the megachurches preach.
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Name: Richard
Date posted: 8/12/2009 3:24:00 PM
Hometown: San Francisco

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What/who is next in the gay soap opera world? It will be very interesting to see how this all turns out. I can't wait for the movie.
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Name: Sam
Date posted: 8/12/2009 2:39:00 PM
Hometown: Denver

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Sam B.: What Mark said. Not all Baptist churches are homophobic. There's especially a difference between Baptist and SOUTHERN Baptist. I've been to a gay-friendly Baptist church - coincidentally also called First Baptist Church, albeit not the one in Florida. In my experience, the First (Anything) Churches are generally older, mainline churches and so tend to be more liberal than you'd expect. The churches you really want to look out for are the new, unaffiliated megachurches. Those tend to be the most bigoted and obsessed with conservative politics.
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Name: Doug
Date posted: 8/12/2009 2:27:00 PM
Hometown: Sioux Falls, SD

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Jason Wetherington, you idiot. Young, good looking, upwardly mobile and Republican. Only one bad mark (being Republican) out of four. But sharing bodily fluids with a Governor is the height of shortsightedness. It seems no matter what Republicans do they can't help getting sucked (pardon me) into some illegal shit. I hope you shared enough beds with influential men so that one of them can extricate you from this mess. Otherwise, what a waste.

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