“This news is beyond disturbing, and Cresent Hardy owes the people he hopes to represent an explanation,” said Drew Godinich, DCCC spokesman. “Silence is simply unacceptable.”
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Las Vegas Review Journal: Ex-fiancee says Las Vegas GOP campaign adviser made her his slave
A Las Vegas political adviser who worked on national campaigns and high-profile Nevada races sexually enslaved and battered his ex-fiancee before police responded to a domestic dispute, the woman told the Review-Journal.
The 46-year-old woman provided copies of emails, text messages and a signed contract laying out her duties as a “slave in training” to Benjamin Sparks.
A Las Vegas police report shows that Sparks, who most recently worked on Republican Cresent Hardy’s campaign to win back the 4th Congressional District seat he held from 2015 to 2017, evaded police after the domestic dispute at the woman’s home on March 29. Officers determined there is “probable cause to arrest Sparks for domestic battery,” and charges are pending.
Sparks was fired from Hardy’s campaign. Hardy did not return multiple calls for comment. Sparks, 35, also was working on Republican Yvette Herrell’s campaign for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District.
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Sparks was political affairs director for RedRock Strategies, a political consulting firm with offices in Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. He was fired from that position last week amid the investigation into the March 29 incident.
Calls and emails to RedRock Strategies were not returned.
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In emails and text messages obtained by the Review-Journal, Sparks required his ex-fiancee to sign a five-page contract stating that she would be his “slave and property.” Under the contract, the woman was forced to kneel and look down when she entered his presence, be nude at all times, sexually service him whenever he wanted and wear a collar in private.
“He was very demanding and did not take no for an answer,” Sparks’ ex-fiancee said. “Over the last month it escalated into very rough sex where he’d actually hurt me. He back-handed me, strangled me and forced himself on me.”
The relationship moved fast. The couple moved in together almost immediately after they met. According to the police report, they began dating Nov. 2. Their contract is dated Nov. 3.
In text messages sent a day before the March 29 altercation, he asked her to be bound and blindfolded and have sex with other men in front of him.
She said the request was her breaking point.
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In the wake of the #MeToo movement that has revealed sexual harassment and misconduct by political, business and media leaders, Sparks’ ex said she wants the public to know the truth about him.
“I truly don’t want this to happen to another girl,” she said. “I’m strong and have a great support system and despite that, this almost broke me.”