# Matt Gaetz being investigated for sex with 17 year old girl (DOJ declines to charge 2023-02-15) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 30, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052 "2021-03-30T22:13:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/464 "2021-07-15T00:42:19Z")
> [@DMC](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > “CPAC-adjacent.” Heh. > > His girlfriend was “adult-adjacent” as well. Soon he’s probably gonna be jury-adjacent. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/465 "2021-07-15T08:49:47Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > When you’re too toxic for CPAC… Too toxic for CPAC, too toxic for Newsmax, too toxic for Orange County…but still _just right_ for the Republican Party… ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/466 "2021-07-18T01:32:23Z")
[According to the latest FEC filings](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/house/?election_year=2022&election_full=True&is_active_candidate=true), Gaetz has raised $3.28 million in campaign contributions so far this year, the 11th highest total among all House members. Anyone who’s dismissing out-of-hand the prospect of him getting reelected had better think again. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/467 "2021-07-18T02:54:38Z")
As far as I know, there’s no law prohibiting a person from serving in the HoR from prison. I supposed he can’t cast votes or serve on a committee, but perhaps he can finish his term and run for re-election as “House adjacent.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/468 "2021-07-18T03:45:38Z")
The Big House of Representatives ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/469 "2021-07-18T03:50:52Z")
House of Reprehensibles. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/470 "2021-07-19T13:38:39Z")
Matt Gaetz gets pranked in California. He and MTG pose for a photo op with someone who repeatedly denies that Gaetz is a pedophile. > ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/471 "2021-07-19T14:45:54Z")
I love the look on Gaetz’s face as soon as the guy start’s saying the word paedophile. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/472 "2021-07-19T16:04:23Z")
But that’s because he’s totally not one. 🙂 Now, ephebophile, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/473 "2021-07-19T16:37:15Z")
Or just a creep. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/474 "2021-07-20T20:46:09Z")
Haw-HAW! > **[After third venue cancels, Gaetz, Greene take 'protest against communism' to...](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-17/third-venue-cancels-america-first-rally-anaheim-gaetz-greene)** > > Shortly before GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene were to appear in O.C., the Anaheim venue canceled ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/475 "2021-07-20T20:57:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > After third venue cancels, Gaetz, Greene take ‘protest against communism’ to… Four Seasons Total Landscaping? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/476 "2021-07-20T20:59:46Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Four Seasons Total Landscaping? More likely the adult toy shop next door to it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/477 "2021-07-20T21:01:09Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > adult Not Gaetz’s style at all. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/478 "2021-07-20T21:07:28Z")
I am of the opinion that any publicity is good publicity. We should just ignore them until the indictments come out. The less I hear about Greene or Gaetz the better. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/479 "2021-07-21T01:01:29Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > I am of the opinion that any publicity is good publicity. I’lll say that their publicity is good only for a certain moronic demographic, and for everyone else - scorn, outrage, (albeit gallows) humour, along with a perfectly fine appetite for the appraising of their next gong-showery. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/480 "2021-07-21T03:38:59Z")
I think outrage just plays into their hands. Followers of these dopes love to own the libs. They’ll vote for anyone who generates liberal outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/481 "2021-07-21T04:01:45Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > I think outrage just plays into their hands. But if our outrage plays into their hands to utterly zero effect other than to further bolster their own useless, insular mindset (that I foresee being a dieing rather than growing trend, demographically), then those durned lib-owners can wallow in all that “good” publicity all they want. On a more relevant note…Hopefully Mark Mothersbaugh has never been too offended by Gaetz’s hair. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/482 "2021-07-21T07:43:05Z")
I never noticed it until just now, but Matt Gaetz and [Johnny Knoxville](https://images.app.goo.gl/GCp45UJB7nmyHJEFA) look like a “before and after” picture. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052/483 "2021-07-21T14:18:08Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > never noticed it until just now, but Matt Gaetz and [Johnny Knoxville](https://images.app.goo.gl/GCp45UJB7nmyHJEFA) look like a “before and after” picture. Then there is this: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51099059623_f8dec1c5f5_b.jpg "2021-04-06\_06-30-45") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51099059623/) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51098599114_ba530cbd8b_b.jpg "beavis-butthead-1") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51098599114/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-gaetz-being-investigated-for-sex-with-17-year-old-girl-doj-declines-to-charge-2023-02-15/939052.md?page=25)