January 31, 2020 09:03 AM UTC

At Least Your Mayor is Wearing Pants

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• by: Colorado Pols

One of our longest-running features here at Colorado Pols is something we like to call, “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator.” This week, we take you to New Jersey, where a local mayor (quite literally) got caught with his pants down.

From the New York Post:

A New Jersey mayor has apologized after getting so sloshed at a work party that he stripped off his trousers and passed out in a female employee’s bed.

Mahwah Mayor John Roth was exposed after an anonymous letter signed by “concerned employees of the township of Mahwah” began circulating last week, according to reports.

The Manhattan-raised pol, 71, admitted to NorthJersey.com on Wednesday that he had “too much to drink” at the party, which was attended by about two dozen town staffers at the employee’s house on Jan. 10.

“I did go upstairs to bed,” Roth, a Republican, told the site from his office in Mahwah Town Hall.

Asked if he took his pants off before getting into the employee’s bed, he said, “Yes, that’s true.” [Pols emphasis]

The mayor’s wife, Andrea, came and picked him up after partygoers woke him, he said.

We’ll award Roth a quarter-point for honesty here.

Roth was elected in 2018 after his predecessor was ousted in a recall effort. As part of his campaign at the time, Roth encouraged voters to elect him because of…wait for it…his “proper moral compass.”