Two Hotels In The Green Zone

The Associated Press has a nice little recap of all of Atlantic City’s political scandals today, including, our favorite, Bob Levy’s claim that he was a Green Beret, later amended to that he just wore a green beret during the war.

The newest Atlantic City scandal is another whopper that puts Philadelphia politicians to shame, frankly. A man wearing a fake beard and glasses — no, really — told Atlantic City Councilman Eugene Robinson to resign or he’d expose him; the same man later gave a tap of the councilman with a topless woman performing a sex act. The councilman says it was consensual, etc., and nobody seems to notice.

Despite Atlantic City’s problems, though, I don’t think it’s reached this level just yet:

“People in Atlantic City have no trouble understanding the political situation in Iraq. All that counts, the only way to make a living, is to be in the government,” said [former City Councilman Seth] Grossman, a lawyer who now lives in an Atlantic City suburb. “You will lie to get in, you will cheat to get in, you will set somebody else up with a prostitute to get in.”

Yep. That sounds a lot like Iraq to me! I mean, without the IEDs.

Scandals color A.C. landscape [AP/Inquirer]
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