John M. Fabrizi, the mayor of Bridgeport, CT admitted today he "had abused cocaine while in office" and while offering an apology to constituents said he had no plans to resign.
Naturally, Fabrizi is a Democrat.
The admission followed the inadvertent release of an FBI document in which an alleged drug dealer claimed an associate had a videotape of the mayor using cocaine.
In a tearful speech to about 200 city employees and residents in City Council chambers Tuesday, Fabrizi said he had not used drugs in 18 months and had sought help for a drug addiction that he had hoped to handle privately.
"I thought that these were personal, private matters to me and my family, that I could deal with these issues with my family and myself," Fabrizi said. "I now recognize my actions affected many others, and I want to apologize to my family, my friends, and all of the people of the city of Bridgeport for my actions, my past actions."
Fabrizi, a Democrat who took office after former Mayor Joseph Ganim was convicted of corruption in 2003, said he hopes to move forward and continue running Connecticut's largest city.
Democrats always consider their criminal activities a private matter. Republicans, however, can't escape accusations of a "culture of corruption" immediately following a mere accusation. Like D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, Fabrizi will probably get reelected. We'll get treated to same old sob stories that drug and/or alcohol addiction is "a disease," except of course when George W. Bush is accused of similiar transgessions. Then, it is something entirely different.
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