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[Councilwoman Cherie] Rodgers: West used city office
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | COSDem May 08, 2005 03:06pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Spokane Spokesman-Review |
| News Date | Sunday, May 8, 2005 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Spokane Mayor Jim West confided to a city councilwoman Thursday that he masturbated in his City Hall office during an online chat on a gay Web site.
“He wanted to kind of bare his soul … He wanted to give me a heads-up,” City Councilwoman Cherie Rodgers said Saturday in describing a conversation she had with West.
West’s admission led Rodgers on Saturday to renew her call for West to resign as mayor, an independent elected position he has held since January 2004. A recall election would require 12,567 signatures of registered voters.
Other council members, however, continue to say that any decision about resignation should be left to West.
Rodgers said West told her about masturbating in his City Hall office when he called her Thursday morning. Rodgers had just finished talking on a radio program about the allegations of child sexual abuse and abuse of public office against West, reported in Thursday’s Spokesman-Review.
Immediately after her 6 a.m. radio interview on KXLY-AM, West called her, Rodgers said.
In the conversation, she said, he denied allegations by two men who told the newspaper that he abused them as young boys in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. West repeated his denial later that day in a brief press conference at City Hall in which he refused to take any questions.
But in their conversation, Rodgers said West acknowledged using a city computer to engage in Internet sex in his mayoral office. |
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