Revealed: The Halloween 'boy scout' who Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell 'begged to bed'



He wore Boy Scout uniform... while she was dressed as a ladybird

Republican firebrand was 39 at time while he was just 25



The identity of the man who claimed he had a drunken one-night stand with Republican firebrand Christine O'Donnell has been revealed.

Dustin Dominiak, 28, was named by his former flat-mate after the first-person account entitled 'I Had a One-Night Stand With Christine O'Donnell' and posted on gossip website Gawker.

The story has caused uproar and plunged the Tea Party darling's mid-term campaign into fresh crisis.



Sordid details of the alleged encounter paint the woman tipped as the next Sarah Palin as a drunken virgin who begged a man dressed as a Boy Scout for sex.



Dustin Dominiak, right, has been identified as the mystery boy scout seen in the photos of Christine O'Donnell from Halloween 2007



Dominiak's former roommate and university friend Brad Kurisko , who works for the Boy Scouts of America, claims it was his uniform that Dominiak wore that night.



The uniform is visible in pictures taken on the evening. The man's face and body were largely cut from the images to protect his identity, but fragments of the costume can be seen.



Dominiak, a 28-year old graduate of Albion College, did not tell his friend he was penning the bombshell post.

Kurisko was originally identified as the blog's author because of his employment. When he was beseiged by the press, he gave an interview to The Smoking Gun website naming Dominiak as the culprit.

The Smoking Gun also reports that Dominiak, a Michigan native, has worked as an auditor at the Federal Reserve in Philadelphia.

Records show that Dominiak shared a Philadelphia address with Kurisko. Also, Dominiak suspiciously deactivated his Facebook account this week, The Smoking Gun reports.



Gawker editor Remy Stern told MailOnline his blog paid in the 'l ow four figures' for the account and accompanying photos, and that Gawker did not post the most salacious details.



Fun-loving The then 39-year-old O'Donnell is pictured at a bar in Philadelphia, right, and back at the anonymos man's apartment



According to the website, O'Donnell insisted on using the man's flat to change into a ladybug costume, then persuaded him to come out for the evening.

The pair knocked back beers together before he claims O'Donnell made it clear she wanted to spend the night with him.

Back at his flat, they allegedly started getting passionate on his couch before they went to his bedroom.

O'Donnell stripped naked and slipped between the sheets, the man claims.

But things started to go wrong after the then 39-year-old allegedly told him she was a 'virgin' and that she did not want to have sex.

He said: 'Christine was a decent kisser, but as soon as her clothes came off and she was naked in my bed, Christine informed me that she was a virgin.'

The man also revealed what he claimed were signs that she wasn't very experienced sexually saying, 'When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by'.

He said: 'Obviously, that was a big turnoff, and I quickly lost interest. I said goodnight, rolled over, and went to sleep.'

Next morning, O'Donnell was allegedly slow to get out of bed and he dropped her off at her friends' house before going to work.

The man tells Gawker: 'I wasn't planning on contacting Christine after our night together. Things hadn't gone so great - especially the part that took place in my bedroom - and I didn't see any reason to try and see her again. '

Votes hope: O'Donnell talks with supporters after a rally at the Kent County Republican Headquarters in Wilmington, Delawar, last night

O'Donnell allegedly texted and called the man over the next two weeks, until he made it clear he wasn't interested.

But in a bizarre twist, she ended up going out with the man's flat-mate. 'They didn't have sex either,' he adds.

A spokesman for O'Donnell told Gawker: 'This story is just another example of the sexism and slander that female candidates are forced to deal with.



'From Secretary Clinton, to Governor Palin, to soon-to-be Governor Haley, Christine's political opponents have been willing to engage in appalling and baseless attacks - all with the aim of distracting the press from covering the real issues in this race.

'Even the National Organisation for Women gets it, but Christine's opponent disturbingly does not.



'As Chris Coons said on September 16th he would not condone personal attacks against Christine.

'Classless Coons goons have proven yet again to have no sense of common decency or common sense with their desperate attacks to get another rubber stamp for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda.

'Such attacks are truly shameful, but they will not distract us from making our case to Delaware voters — and keeping the focus on Chris Coons' record of higher taxes, increased spending, and as he has done again here, breaking his promises to the voters.'

The story, which has been published just a week before Ms O'Donnell attempts to win vice president Joe Biden's old Delaware seat, has sparked a huge backlash.

'Gawker hits O'Donnell while she's down,' wrote The Atlantic.

In a column for the Huffington Post, author Danielle Crittendon wrote: 'This whole story reeks as a pre-election plant, and Gawker should own up to the identity of this cowardly sexual creep.'

O'Donnell reminded voters that she was behind in the polls before her surprising win in the Republican primaries earlier this year and the same could happen during next Tuesday's mid-term elections

Meghan McCain, who famously branded O'Donnell a 'nut job', was just one of the many who sprang to her defence.

In her angry tweet, Megan McCain added: ' This is the exact reason why women don't want to run for office in this country... Anybody saying there isn't a double standard for how the media treats women versus men running for office isn't living in reality.'

The 26-year-old daughter of GOP Senator John McCain added: 'I am no fan of O'Donnell but what Gawker has done is disgusting and vile and once again not showcasing the real issues in this election.'

Gawker said that it knew the man's identity and had verified his links to Ms O'Donnell.

Former Republican Party Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. O'Donnell has been compared to Mrs Palin, for the way they sharply divide political opinion

The man said he had rented an apartment that Ms O'Donnell's aunt owned, and that after their encounter she had dated one of his roommates for a year.

Gawker claimed to have verified those details.



The website said it had not received a sworn affidavit from the man and when it was originally published, that it had not had any comment from Ms O'Donnell on the story.

Managing Editor of Gawker.com Remy Stern said that the mystery man chose now to tell his story because of Ms O'Donnell's growing popularity, saying: 'I don't think he really thought about it until the last few weeks when she started attracting so much media attention and looked like a contender.



'He wanted to keep his anonymity but wanted to tell his story in a complete and comprehensive way.'

Ms O'Donnell continues to drop in the polls and is currently 21 points behind her democratic candidate Chris Coons.



She shocked the U.S. and became the darling of the right-wing Tea Party movement when she won the Republican Primary in Delaware, and has positioned herself against the 'big government' politics of the Democrats.

She has made mistakes on the campaign trail, including confusing Afghanistan with Iraq when talking about troop withdrawals and claiming the U.S. was fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Her somewhat bizarre personal life also came back to haunt her when she was questioned about a TV advert in which she was forced to state 'I am not a witch'.

Asked why she made it, she said: 'To put it to rest, to put it behind me.'

It was a response to comments she once made in which she admitted to dabbling in witchcraft in her youth.

Despite the support of the Tea Party wing of the Republican party, she is viewed by many as a liability, even if she appeals to grass roots Republicans in the same manner as Sarah Palin, whom she is regularly compared to.

During her 2006 bid for the Senate Ms O’Donnell was quoted as saying that China has a ‘carefully thought-out a strategic plan to take over America’.

She has also been caught out claiming that she studied at Oxford University when she only attended a course on ‘Post Modernism in the Millennium’ for a few weeks.



Ms O’Donnell has also been mocked for a video clip from 1996, in which she says masturbation is a form of adultery.

She also got into an animated exchange on a radio talk show on Tuesday which was caught on audio and video tape.

Unbeknown to Ms O'Donnell, WDEL-AM were videotaping the interview which captured a physically agitated Ms O'Donnell, snapping her fingers at host Rick Jensen and motioning her aide to her side during questions about specifics on budget cuts.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden wave to supporters at an event for Chris Coons, the Democrat candidate running for a Senate seat against O'Donnell in Wilmington, Delaware

After the show, Ms O'Donnell's campaign manger Matt Moran called the Delaware station manager to demand that the video be destroyed and threatened to 'crush' the station with a lawsuit if it was not.

WDEL general manager Michael Reath said: 'He accused us of creating a story to garner ratings because we must be hurting since the Phillies were no longer on the air'

The station reports it later received an apology from the O'Donnell campaign with O'Donnell spokesman Doug Sachtleben saying today that there is 'no threat to sue DEL'.

'There had been a question prior to the interview as to whether or not a video camera would be running and it's my fault for not pursuing that', Sachtleben said.

'The question was never clearly answered, even though it was put to the host twice. We think the video shows Christine to be a strong candidate that went toe to toe with a strong talk show host', he added.