Posted on 04/27/2012 7:08:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Bernalillo County Commissioner with a history of making inappropriate sexual comments in Albuquerque may be in more trouble half way around the world.
A Seattle photographer, who has been documenting sex tourism in the Philippines, told KOB’s 4 On Your Side team he had a disturbing conversation with Commissioner Michael Wiener in Angeles City, the second largest sex tourism city in the world.
Photographer John Keatley has posted several pictures he took of Wiener standing with four scantily clad bar girls last month on his Internet blog.
Weiner said nothing inappropriate happened and that he and his girlfriend were just walking through the district, waiting to catch a plane out of the city.
Keatley claimed he heard Wiener make a racy comment to the girls. “He basically said right when he got up to have his picture taken with the girls, ‘Hey don't touch my penis... Ah hah just kidding - you can touch it.’”
Wiener denied saying that.
“I may have made a comment like don't get too close to my girlfriends here, but I didn't mention anything like that,” Wiener said.
Keatley also claimed the commissioner also told him to relax and enjoy the ‘walking street.’
“He told us what a good time could be had in Angeles City if you just opened yourself up to it,” Keatley said.
The photographer also said it appeared Wiener seemed to know the district well.
“He was trying to get us to switch our hotels because this other hotel we were staying at would really cater to us having a good time. It was very wink, wink, nudge, nudge,” Keatley said. “He seemed surprised that we didn’t have girls yet. It was kind of like, come on- open your self up have a good time kind of thing.”
Wiener denied staying at a hotel in Angeles City.
In fact, Wiener told Investigative Reporter Gadi Schwartz he was only there with his girlfriend while the couple waited for a flight to visit his nine-year-old daughter, who lives in another town in the island country.
Wiener, who faces a Republican primary opponent in June, said he hopes politics is not behind the photographer’s blog post, but Keatley said he never met Wiener before March and does not even know who he is running against.
Keatley said he did not even know Wiener was an elected official until looking him up on Facebook after meeting him on the mean streets of Angeles City.
Hand check!
Me infect you long time!
Hmmm, if these girls are "scantily clad", the author needs to check out the after-dark street scene in most American cities.
Or the Mall scene in many mid-sized American cities.
The congressman may be completely guilty as charged, but this article smells like a thinly veiled hit piece to me.
Memories of Subic Bay......
Memories, nothing more than memories...from the pages of my mind... ;)
The girls in the photograph would be second and third tier compared to most "hostesses" on Magsaysay in my 70's-80's Aviation Navy days. I often feel bad for modern sailors who can't experience Olongapo it its heyday. Don't even know if our ships get liberty there anymore since the PI kick us out.
Didn't know you were Navy or Marine. Thanks for serving. Hope you had a great time in Subic - I know I did. As I mentioned on another thread, "double bullets" were your friend.
In my 70's-80's Navy days they were ALL woman. You're probably thinking of Singapore and Thailand. Filipina women are built like the proverbial brick sh*thouse with all the right equipment, but then so are Thai women and even prettier.
He said he was there with his girlfriend??
So the guy is single?
Then so what??? The women he’s with (at least IMHO the young lady on each arm respectively) are certainly pretty and hetero, and don’t seem even one bit unhappy to be with him.
For crying out loud. A bachelor ... with pretty ladies?
The sky is falling!!
/s
I think lefties are mad, the filipina ladies are very likely Catholic.
Weiner would make for a perfect Secret Service agent.
“LBFM’s”, now there’s one I haven’t heard in a while. I was in the Corps back in the day. You could get a meal, a couple of ice cold beers, and a Double Wash for ten bucks IIRC.
Those were some days my friend. Thanks for your service, too.
You obviously must not have visited Angeles City during the days when Clark U.S. Air Force Base was open and operating (Angeles City actually surrounded the old Clark U.S. Air Force Base). The only thing that has changed is the customer base, from U.S. Military to international tourist.
I talked with Air Force and even some Army veterans who served during the same time I did (late 1980's) and before who talked fondly about Clark AFB and Angeles City. They told me how they looked forward to missions where their tanker or transport plane was sent from their stateside bases to Clark AFB for a few days to a few weeks TDY. They knew it would be party time and a nice break from their relatively dull, stateside base routine.
I was stationed in Subic Bay for a couple of years in the late 1980's and I also made a few weekend trips up to AC (as we called it) for a little change of scenery or to escape Olongapo/Subic Bay when the fleet was in. I always thought the girls in Angeles were prettier than the ones in the Subic Bay/Olongapo area were :-).
I remember Field(s) Avenue was the main bar strip in Angeles during the base days (and still is from what I read) and that Avenue ran right along the perimeter of the old Clark AFB. Heck, I remember looking out over the Clark Base Cemetary and the Main Gate Monument from a couple of the bars while knocking back ice cold San Miguels and enjoying the female company.
Even today, there are still thousands of U.S. military (mainly Air Force), non-Filipino retirees and other veterans living in and around Angeles City, some twenty years after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991 effectivly closed down Clark AFB. There are even active and thriving VFW and American Legion posts in Angeles City today.
As you can tell from this long post, even though I only made a few weekend visits to Angeles in my two years 'Station Dito' in Subic Bay, I still have fond memories of the place :-).
From what I have read and heard from some of my old Subic Bay shipmates who have visited Subic after the U.S. bases in the Philippines were closed in 1992, is that Olongapo City itself is no longer a big party town for foreigners/American expats. The few bars/big clubs in Olongapo proper still running cater to Filipinos these days.
However, if you are familiar with the Subic Bay area from the U.S. Navy Base days, the Barrio and Subic City are still party spots that cater to foreigners/American expats. There are still several old, base days style clubs going in these locations. I also hear that the old navy base itself has been built up with several high end type resorts, casinos, etc that provides entertainment to tourists as well.
There is still an American military/veteran presense of sorts in Subic Bay as well. There is an active and thriving VFW post in the Barrio, a Fleet Reserve Association post in San Antonio (outside the old San Miguel Naval Communications Station), an American Legion post on Magsaysay Blvd in Olongopo and also a Retired Activies Office in the Barrio as well, which is an official DOD office that supports retired military members residing in the area.
Please, no Wiener burnishing in front of the chilren.
Interesting,thought things might have changed after 40 some odd years
Yes, you would think with the bases closed, that these areas would move on to other "industries". The bar/club business in these areas is still going strong, not quite as strong in Subic Bay as during the base days, but is actually stronger in Angeles City since the base days from what I have read.
The only things that have changed in the Subic Bay area, as well as the Angeles City area as far as bars/bargirls are concerned is the clientele. Prior to 1992, the "customer" base in Olongapo/Subic Bay and Angeles City bars was U.S. Military - after the base closings in 1992, it is now international tourist.
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