At Least Your Mayor is Wearing Pants

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by: Colorado Pols

Mahwah, NJ Mayor John Roth, pictured here in pants.

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.

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.”

7 thoughts on “At Least Your Mayor is Wearing Pants”

MADCO says:

January 31, 2020 at 9:32 am

CoPols…. smh

This time you have set the bar too high

– he did not have a gun under his pillow
– he wasn't driving
– he did not attempt to take a gun through airport security
– he did not claim to be returning from or travelling to a government meeting
– he did not blame an intern
– he did not fail to issue legally required marriage licenses
– he did not avoid paying taxes
– he do not collude with Russia or Ukraine
– he did not lie under oath
– he did not set up a fraudulent adoption business and defraud people of millions
– he did not get rich begging for a publicly funded stadium
– he did not block traffic to the bridge

and on and on.
He drank too much. He went to bed. Without pants.
just like 1/2 of America this weekend.

Go fix the Big Line.

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1. RepealAndReplace says:
  
  January 31, 2020 at 10:21 am
  
  Nor did he kick a photographer on the floor of the House nor expose himself to a lobbyist while shooting pool.
  
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  1. MADCO says:
    
    January 31, 2020 at 11:58 am
    
    zactly
    
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  2. ajb says:
    
    January 31, 2020 at 12:00 pm
    
    You might say that he did what he was supposed to do after one too many: stay put and sleep it off.
    
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    1. notaskinnycook says:
      
      January 31, 2020 at 8:17 pm
      
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notaskinnycook says:

January 31, 2020 at 9:45 am

But did he also take his shoes off?

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davebarnes says:

January 31, 2020 at 11:45 am

Whatever.
He killed no one.
He did not sexually assault someone.

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