{"id":39300,"date":"2012-04-26T11:18:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39300"},"modified":"2012-04-30T06:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T12:21:29","slug":"red-light-district-photos-land-commissioner-in-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/04\/red-light-district-photos-land-commissioner-in-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner in hot seat over red-light district photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39301\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39301\" title=\"Wiener, Michael\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Wiener-Michael.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Wiener\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Wiener<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bernalillo County Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernco.gov\/michael-c--wiener---biography-2765\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Wiener<\/a>, a Republican, is in the hot seat after being photographed posing with several scantily-clad women in a sex-tourism area in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/article\/stories\/S2597003.shtml?cat=500&amp;v=1\" target=\"_blank\">KOB-TV<\/a>, which broke the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPhotographer John Keatley has posted several pictures he took of Wiener standing with four scantily clad bar girls last month on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keatleyphoto.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/angeles-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">his Internet blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeiner said nothing inappropriate happened and that he and his girlfriend were just walking through the district, waiting to catch a plane out of the city.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/04\/26\/news\/wiener-absolutely-nothing-untoward.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Albuquerque Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWiener didn\u2019t say whether he knew the area was a red-light district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I just wanted to take a quick tour,\u2019 he said. \u2018It\u2019d be like if people to go to Las Vegas and they want to go to the casinos, but they don\u2019t gamble. I was just curious. I walked from one end to the other.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWiener said he ran into two Americans, and they wanted to take his picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeatley offers a different account. He said Wiener wanted photos taken as he posed with a group of scantily clad women in front of a bar and with a woman he introduced as his girlfriend.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The photographer was documenting sexual exploitation in the Philippines. You can view the photos on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keatleyphoto.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/angeles-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernalillo County Commissioner Michael Wiener, a Republican, is in the hot seat after being photographed posing with several scantily-clad women in a sex-tourism area in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,157],"class_list":["post-39300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-bernalillo-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}