It turns out that Republican hacks like free massages!
“A widening criminal probe of the San Bernardino County assessor’s office led to the arrest Thursday of James Erwin, chief of staff for county Supervisor Neil Derry and a former assistant assessor, on 10 felony counts including “failure to disclose receipt of prostitution and masseuse services,” according to the L.A. Times.
Masseuse services? Oh my. Our readers may recall that the former Red Clownty editor, Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham went ballistic when I criticized the Santa Ana City Council for banning massage parlors – and he lost it again when I applauded the move by the City of Santa Ana to allow them after all, with restrictions. And now one of Jerbal’s red-faced compadres has been busted for using masseuse services. Priceless!
Apparently Erwin received these services as gifts but did not disclose them. You may recall that in January, Erwin’s old boss, “former Assessor Bill Postmus was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.”
What is it with these 909 Republicans? There must be something in the water out in San Bernardino. That is also where GOP Assemblyman Anthony Adams hails from. He is the squish who has been targeted for recall by John and Ken, because he voted for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tax increase budget. Click here to find out more about the recall effort.
The one bit of good news for the poor Republicans in San Bernardino is that Adams was forced out as Chairman of the San Bernardino Republican Party this week. How this guy was ever put in charge of that party in the first place is worth pondering…
Lets not forget 909 Congressional rep Calvert was caught by the Corona cops picking up a crack addict prostitute and performing sexual acts with her. Disgusting!!
He had some lame excuse.
Art,
Two thinkgs that caught my eye in this post.
First, The fact that he is in trouble for NOT REPORTING free Prostitutes. Thats just funny. It would have been even funnier if he did report the free sex on a disclosure form.
Second, you have a typo in the second paragraph:
And not one of Jerbal’s red-faced compadres has been busted for using masseuse services. Priceless!
NOT should be NOW.
Maybe you can get freedom-loving Jubal to come back one more time to expound on why a massage establishment (a “human organization” as he deemed it) is inherently bad – and in need of regulation or outlaw.
Art, How is the Santa Ana massage ban written? Does it distinguish between legitimate massage therapy and fronts for sexual services? My wife broke her wrist in a fall and found that a private massage business does a better job in post-surgical physical therapy than the clinical service. I go myself when my back tightens up. How did Santa Ana write its law?
SAHS Teacher,
It is similar to the ordinance in Orange. Massage practitioners have to be licensed and trained. And these businesses are subject to inspections.
A friend of mine does physical therapy. He says a lot of our pain comes from needing to reorient our core. He uses strengthening excercises to do this.
Many Latino workers have no insurance. They depend on alternative health care – and a massage can really make you feel better when you are quite sore.
Why Republicans rail aginst these businesses is a mystery to me…