Ben Quayle is hitting back – highlighting his conservative bona fides on social and moral issues. Quayle fires back on social issues

A week after congressional candidate Ben Quayle’s Democratic opponent ran ads on Christian radio attacking his ties to a risqué website, the Arizona Republican is hitting back — highlighting his conservative bona fides on social and moral issues.

“Ben Quayle’s opponent has placed paid messages on Christian radio about morality. It’s surprising he bought that up. Ben is pro-life. His opponent uses his massive wealth to fund abortion lobbies,” a woman’s voice says in a new radio spot that will air on stations in Phoenix.


Also noted in the ad is Quayle’s position on gay marriage — he “strongly supports constitutional protection of marriage between a man and a woman” — and he attacks his opponent, businessman Jon Hulburd, for taking money from labor unions.

Hulburd and Quayle are running to replace retiring Rep. John Shadegg in the strongly Republican 3rd District. While Quayle is considered the front-runner, his GOP primary opponents — and now Hulburd — have hammered him for writing for Dirty Scottsdale, a raunchy website that posts pictures from the local club scene and solicits nasty comments. Hurlburd’s earlier radio ad slammed Quayle for that association.

Quayle’s ad prompted an even more aggressive response from the Hulburd campaign. “Ben Quayle founded a sex-steeped website that refers to women as ‘sperm catchers’ and to Asians as ‘noodles,’ then he tried to lie about it and got caught,” Hulburd spokesman Josh Abner said in a statement. “Ben Quayle recognizes that he’s in trouble with his conservative base. Voters who value honesty and integrity are running from the Quayle campaign.”

That ad referred to TheDirty.com, a site that began in 2007 as Dirty Scottsdale. Its founder, Nik Richie, accused Quayle of having a role in the site’s creation and claims Quayle wrote several posts under the name Brock Landers, a reference to a fictional porn star in the movie “Boogie Nights.”

Quayle has admitted he posted to the site under a pseudonym, though he says he does not recall which name he used. He also maintains that he has not lied or changed his story about the extent of his involvement with Dirty Scottsdale. When POLITICO first asked Quayle whether he was involved with Dirty Scottsdale, Quayle said he was “not involved in the site” — an answer he says was a response to allegations he was a co-founder. Richie has since admitted that he overstated Quayle’s role, and that Quayle did not help create Dirty Scottsdale.