U.S. Senate Candidate Gets 20 Years In Prison For Child Sexual Abusive Activity

     George Earnest Huffman III worked as a truck driver out of Perry, a quiet township just outside of Lansing, but he tried to make his way into the political world while his truck was filling up on gas. In 2010, he ran against Darwin Booher in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 102, being defeated on August 3rd. He tried again in 2012, but lost 67-33 to Brendan Maturen on August 7th. I can't speculate as to Huffman's political ideology, as he never won any elected office. However, he has all the characteristics of a Trump supporter. Disillusioned Midwestern blue-collar workers won Trump the electoral (if not the popular) vote in 2016. Among his supporters included former Democrats, and, in 2016, Huffman ran for U.S. Senate for the U.S. Taxpayers Party, known nationally as the Constitution Party, a party more conservative than even Republicans. He only garnered 0.6 percent of the vote, but that means 27,000 Michiganders voted for him.

     They probably came to regret this in June 2019, when Huffman was among 22 arrested by Sheriff Robert Pickell in the first GHOST (Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team) sting, a program that has gone on to nab nearly 100 total predators for child sex crimes. George Huffman was charged with three felony counts: accosting a child for immoral purposes, child sexual abuse activity, and using a computer to commit a crime. Facing 1-44 years in prison, he hired attorney Nick Robinson, who represented two others in the sting. Robinson argued that Huffman and the other clients he represented, who had all used the internet to have graphic sexual conversations with children between the ages of 13 and 15 before meeting at local motel rooms, were set up by Pickell, that their arrests were illegal, and that this raised the possibility of legal action against the department for taking very public action against these "innocent" men.

     A jury decided otherwise on January 17th, 2020, when he was convicted of child sexual abuse activity while being acquitted of the other two charges during a three-day trial; this essentially means the jury did not find sufficient evidence to back up the claim he came to engage in intercourse while acknowledging he was guilty of the online chats. Huffman was sentenced in February 2020, earning himself three to 20 years in a Michigan prison. 

     Huffman remains incarcerated to this day. His behavior in prison will determine whether he gets out in 2023, 2040, or any time in between. It doesn't look too good for Huffman, though. The 5'6" man weighing 200 pounds with a flattop haircut, a smile in his mugshot, a piercing in his left ear (he needs to try that hard to not look gay, apparently), and the inability to pay his fees while in prison in spite of having everything but food paid for by the prison system is indicative of a man who has not learned his lesson.

     The world can at least breathe a little easier knowing that this man never became a politician, and that he will be released, whether age 47 or age 64, into a lifetime of being a registered sex offender.