Mayor Linked to Gay Sex Asks for ‘Second Chance’
From Times Wire Reports
Spokane Mayor Jim West said he no longer engaged in gay sex and had stopped visiting Internet chat rooms.
“I wish there was a rewind button,” West said.
“Basically, that’s what I’m asking the public for: a second chance.”
However, polls indicate that a second chance isn’t likely when voters decide Tuesday whether to recall West from office.
The mayor was caught in a newspaper’s sting operation in which he offered a city job to a person he thought was an 18-year-old man he had met in an online chat room.
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