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Things have gotten ugly between Glendale, Calif., city council candidate Mike Mohill and incumbent John Drayman.
Last
week, during a city council meeting, Drayman announced to the room that
Mohill had been arrested three times, twice in the 1980s for soliciting
lewd acts in a public place.
According to the Montrose Patch,
Mohill slouched and shrugged, then walked out of the meeting. He
returned later, and the meeting continued, but Mohill refused to comment
on the accusations.
Tuesday night, he responded, saying he has
been married since 1977, he is gay, and that the two charges brought
against him in the '80s for solicitation of lewd acts were the product
of him having "gay sex in public."
He said his wife has known he
is gay since the arrests and that the two maintain a "marriage in which
we share a powerful affection and respect for each other."
He
then went on to rail against Drayman, blaming him for making this
campaign "personal" rather than "public." He then went on to say Drayman
"reputed to be gay himself."
"I would hope this statement would
satisfy ... lewd curiosity," Mohill said in a statement. "I'm not so
naive as to believe this statement, as agonizing as it [is], will not
severely hurt my election chances. How badly, only time will tell."
Read more here.
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