Port Official Quits Over Lewd Cruise
From Times Wire Reports
The head of the Massachusetts Port Authority resigned in Boston after it was learned that he went on a “booze cruise” paid for by his agency during which a woman bared her breasts. Peter Blute cited “recent errors in judgment” in a letter of resignation to Gov. Paul Cellucci. The Boston Herald said its reporters saw Blute and lobbyist Sandy Tennant, a top state Republican party official, drinking beer and champagne. At the end of the tour, the newspaper said, a passenger lifted her shirt.
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