San Diego's Acting Mayor Convicted

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[Sub-Driver]

San Diego's Acting Mayor Convicted

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago

A federal jury on Monday convicted San Diego's new acting mayor and a city councilman of taking payoffs from a strip club owner to help repeal the "no-touching" ordinance at nude clubs, the latest blow to a city already awash in scandal.

Michael Zucchet, who became interim mayor over the weekend, was found guilty of conspiracy, extortion and fraud on his first business day in office. He will almost certainly have to resign.

Councilman Ralph Inzunza, who was also convicted of the same charges, is also likely to step down.

The jury also returned guilty verdicts against former Clark County, Nev., Commissioner Lance Malone, who worked for strip club owner Michael Galardi to repeal San Diego's ban preventing nude dancers and patrons from touching each other.

[oolatec]

Political affiliation?

[Red Badger]

(D) or (R)?.........Not listed so must be (D)......

[scott7278]

He will almost certainly have to resign.

Well, I'm glad to hear that. /sarcasm

[jdm]

Democrat.

[RockinRight]

Bill Clinton is mayor of San Diego?

[Jimbaugh]

Both of them are D's. It is now time to play pass the soap.

[Bigh4u2]

Democrats!

Posted here:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445449/posts

[Jimbaugh]

The City Charter kicks them out automatically. Bye Bye.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"There is no beer in the champagne room."

[Red Badger]

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[Mount Athos]

Didn't the last mayor just resign?
This is incredible

[ncountylee]

Once great and beautiful city brought down by crooked clown politians and greedy public employees. So sad!

[Restorer]

Should have taken it out in trade ...

[Dr.Hilarious]

Let's make a wild guess as to party affiliation:

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/es/2003/10/101707.shtml

Inzunza had arrived at the rally while street poet Brian Babb was reading, and the corporate-media TV crews covering the event flocked around him and asked for an immediate interview. He told them instead that they should film his speech to the crowd -- and during his speech he launched a strongly worded attack on the corporate media in general and the San Diego Union-Tribune (which endorsed him in his City Council campaign but has since called for his resignation after he was indicted on fraud charges in connection with allegedly illegal campaign contributions from strip-club owners and employees) in particular. "The conservative media here, many of them who are here today, they don't get that message out because they're owned by the corporate rich," Inzunza said.

[dangus]

What happened to that surfer babe who was contesting that she had won the election with write-in ballots?

[scott7278]

The City Charter kicks them out automatically. Bye Bye.

That's good -- I can't believe that "he will almost certainly have to resign" even had to be included in the article.

[GaltMeister]

"The conservative media here, many of them who are here today, they don't get that message out because they're owned by the corporate rich," Inzunza said.

LOL! And I guess San Diego city hall is owned by tittie club operators from the look of things.

[ConservativeMan55]

"to help repeal the "no-touching" ordinance at nude clubs, the latest blow to a city already awash in scandal."

An unforunate choice of words for this topic.

[theFIRMbss]

>A federal jury on Monday convicted San Diego's new acting mayor and a city councilman of taking payoffs from a strip club owner to help repeal the "no-touching" ordinance at nude clubs, the latest blow to a city already awash in scandal . . .