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Wiener rejects calls for his resignation
Michael Wiener
Despite calls for his resignation from Gov. Susana Martinez and others in his own party, Bernalillo County Commissioner Michael Wiener says he’ll let voters decide his fate.
“While I may have exercised poor judgment while on vacation, I have broken no laws and brought no harm to anyone except for myself,” the Albuquerque Journal quoted the Republican as saying. “To suspend my campaign or step down from the office I was duly elected to would be tantamount to an admission that I had done something wrong when the fact is I have not.”
“There’s an election in 37 days and if the people at that time want to pick somebody else to represent them on the county commission, that’s certainly the way a democracy works that we all belong to,” KOB-TV quoted him as saying. “And I’m going to let the voters in my district speak rather than a few elected officials.”
Wiener was photographed posing with several scantily-clad women in a sex-tourism area in the Philippines by a photographer documenting sexual exploitation. The commissioner says he was simply walking through the area while on a flight layover.
Former Chamber of Commerce Chairman Lonnie Talbert is running against Wiener in the June primary and was endorsed last week by the governor. No Democrats are in the race.
Others calling for Wiener to resign include Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, most of Wiener’s colleagues on the county commission and the Albuquerque Journal editorial board.
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I always wondered about his integrity because he always has brand new unissued license plates for sale on e-bay, who cares what he does on vacation if it wasn’t illegal.
I have to agree with you EW-aif, in fact after all the photos and truth emerged about Billy Bob Clinton and “that woman”, only the puritanical ones were calling for him to resign and pursuing removal, all the Democrats were fine with it. Now we have all the Democrats, Mich L-G, etc. doing it too. Guess they are all puritanical, or could it be just politics? Anyway, Billy Bob did not step down for such trivial pursuits and neither should Wiener. Get something real on him, then call for it, geesh.
Seems to me that Weiner is mainly guilty of forgetting that he lives in a Puritanical country. Prostitution (or “erotic stimulation for hire,” as Sheri Tepper calls it) was legal in the US back when my late mother was an intern in Cincinnati. Taxed, registered, and regulated. She told me that the women came in to the hospital once a week to be checked for venereal diseases, a much more sensible approach than denial of reality.
Apparently it was a reporter working on an article on the sex trade in the Philippines.
Who took the photo?