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    NJ mayor resigns amid escort website sex scandal

    MEDFORD, N.J. (AP) — The town's married mayor, accused on a website two months ago of having sex with a prostitute at a California hotel, resigned Monday.

    The anonymous allegation against Republican Chris Myers, a father of two, included a photo of a man who appeared to be him in his underwear.

    The person making the allegation claimed to be a prostitute. He said Myers contacted him through a male escort website and they met at a Newport Beach, Calif., hotel. He complained Myers paid him $500 but didn't fulfill promises of a car and other gifts. He said on the website that the broken promise was the reason he was taking his story public.

    The website was taken down soon after becoming public.

    Myers, in an interview with a reporter for the Courier-Post newspaper in October, refused to comment on the allegations but didn't deny them. At a November township council meeting, Myers denied the claims, calling the Internet "a murky, anonymous place."

    His resignation letter submitted to town officials Monday did not mention the scandal.

    "My work commitments will not allow me to devote the time that is needed in the months ahead," Myers wrote.

    Some other council members have complained that the allegations against Myers have gotten in the way of the business of the town of 23,000 residents about 20 miles east of Philadelphia. Myers missed one township council meeting and postponed another after the allegations surfaced.

    Myers won the GOP nomination for a congressional seat in 2008 but lost the general election. He has been suspended as a vice president at technology manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp.

     

    107 comments

    • view from above  •  San Diego, United States  •  5 mths ago
      i bet he ran on family values and opposed gay marriage......fukkkin hypocrites
    • let them eat cake  •  Houston, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Jeepers, is it worth it to you to lose your job, lose your status, lose your family over lust for men?
      • Hot Shoes 5 mths ago
        Or lust, period, for that matter.
    • hI-density  •  5 mths ago
      I guess family values no longer mean fidelity, but instead means being a good honest taxpayer so you can support the outside sex partners of those in public office in style. No wonder they are so greedy. keeping your immorality a secret costs plenty, especially when they are much younger and the perverts, religious or not seem to love the young.
      • john C 5 mths ago
        Loving the young is genetically inbred into us.. omen are capsable of having children at twelve or so..We are the only species on the face of the planet that denies this and criminalizes it..and look at the world humans are destroying with their ":laws"....
      • hI-density 5 mths ago
        John C. in Tampa; You sound like a typical child abuser pervert making excuses for your behavior. We are not lower animals but human and loving the young means protecting them from perverts until they are both emotionally as well as physically mature. I am ever grateful to my patents for keeping me innocent long enough to develope as a normal happy, healthy & thinking adult.
    • joe  •  5 mths ago
      More Repukblican hypocrites!!! When will this stop?
    • Sunset  •  Batesville, United States  •  5 mths ago
      How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.2 Samuel 1:25
    • Joe Jones  •  5 mths ago
      Let me guess. He was another hypocritical republican who made his fame running on a "traditional family values / anti-alternate lifestyle" platform?
    • Seen it all  •  Beaufort, United States  •  5 mths ago
      No surprises there. It's just yet another "family values" bible thumping purse-lipped conservative Republican politician goes down in flames.

      Maybe he can hire Newt Gingrich as a marriage counselor - or run for Mayor of Southaven Mississippi.

      lol
    • Randy  •  Burlington, United States  •  5 mths ago
      So, I guess GOP really stands for "gang of perverts".
    • GoGoBear  •  Mountlake Terrace, United States  •  5 mths ago
      And yet ANOTHER Republican.....
      • FIRE IDIOT OBAMA 5 mths ago
        Yea well it was wth a FEMALE prostitute...... if it was a democrat it would have been a preteen boy.
      • Judy 5 mths ago
        Tragically the Democrats have many scandals on their side as well. But I would like to know why we think we have to know about this? Does this affect how well or poorly these people run their office?

        Since I am not married to to this mayor or the former POTUS, or a former governor or a former representative, it's really none of my business, not is it yours.
      • Tom R. 5 mths ago
        Yeah, and the difference is ....he resigned.
    • brutusmaxximus  •  Corpus Christi, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Isn't it interesting that Republicans caught up in sex scandals are with men, while Democrats are in trouble with women.
    • I  •  5 mths ago
      Will republirats cross the frontiers of their sexual desires---to sleep with other animals???????
    • Seen it all  •  Beaufort, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Next - Myers claims to be "counseling" the rentboy to convert him from "gayism" - sorta like Michele Bachmann's dirty little scam.

      lol
    • 9inchnail  •  5 mths ago
      Two gay Conservative Mayors in one day? #$%$ When does it become a test at the local level?
    • adam a  •  5 mths ago
      \to john c : there is not a #$%$ thing normal about sex between the same sex . It is as evil as evil can be .
      • Hot Shoes 5 mths ago
        Au contraire. Homosexuality is observed throughout the animal kingdom. We just happen to be bipedal animals--we're not exempt.
    • Terrence Bass  •  Chicago, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Feel sorry for the family
    • whatamess  •  Dayton, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Paying a gay boy $500 for sex? What kind of desperation is this?
    • HOPE  •  5 mths ago
      Surprise! Not. This guy probably was the most vocal "Christian Conservative" in his town, calling out the evil doers as he ran for election.
    • AbdulL  •  Islamabad, Pakistan  •  5 mths ago
      Looks Republicans have some common ailment-sexual mis adventures and plundering Public Coffres....
      • wygent 5 mths ago
        And Dimocrats can't spell or punctuate or string more than 5 words together!
      • I 5 mths ago
        Wygent, SILENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Machine  •  5 mths ago
      What is wrong with these Republicans turning Gay, yesterday Gov of Missisipi used $176,000 tax payer's money frequently travel to Canadian Gay shops. This Mayor of NJ spends Tax payer's money for Gay escort. Enough of Obama wasting Tax payer's money. Republican turning gay are stealing tax payers money. Gay teabaggers republican hypocrite
    • Tom R.  •  Tacoma, United States  •  5 mths ago
      This male escort seems like a real peach.
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