Mayor Admits To Posing For Pictures In Drag

[The Straight Story]

Mayor Admits To Posing For Pictures In Drag
Eric Brewer Says Leaked Pictures Cost Him Election


EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Outgoing East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer is admitting to dressing in women's clothing and posing for photos, WEWS-TV in Cleveland reported.

Brewer appeared Tuesday on the tabloid TV show "Inside Edition."

Brewer said he dressed up at the suggestion of a girlfriend.

"These pictures are personal. They are pictures that were taken by a female friend of mine," said Brewer. "I myself heard someone say that they were voting for the mayor who wore pants, and one lady said that she did not want to vote for a mayor who would compete with her for wearing her panties."

The pictures surfaced last month days before East Cleveland's mayoral primary. Brewer said the leaked pictures cost him the election. The mayor-elect said that's not true.

http://www.newsnet5.com/entertainment/21225896/detail.html

I would have showed up on inside edition in drag and asked people 'do you care how I dress or what I do for the city?'

[anigbrowl]

1. Might not have been such a good idea to put personal pictures on your office computer, Mayor Brewer

I really could not care less if he enjoys cross-dressing. But if it's not part of his public persona, then what is it doing on a computer at city hall?

[The Straight Story]

2. Well, people do put pics of themselves, trips, kids, etc on computers

The computer is the new desk :)

[CakeGrrl]

5. As an IT professional, I can tell you that

you're most likely doing that at your own risk.

Of course, it depends on how extensive your organization's computing policies are developed, but my company let people go for computing security violations.

It's a convenient and nearby place to store your personal stuff, but that computer - and the information on it - belongs to the organization that purchased it.

You should really assume that someone is watching what you put on your work computer - because they just might be.

[anigbrowl]

6. If you wouldn't put it on your desk in a frame...

...then it ought not to be on the computer. I feel kinda bad for him since whoever found it should have just raised an ethics issue over it rather than putting the pictures out in public, and he's had his privacy violated.

But c'mon, it wouldn't be appropriate to have pics of lingerie-clad girls on the city computer, now would it? the fact that it's the mayor himself doesn't mean it gets a pass. I mean, when you get down to it most of them are x-rated (well, not technically, but I mean they're meant to be sexy rather than jacket-and-skirt drag).

Now on the other hand, the (unrelated) Mildred Brewer on the city council who is calling for his resignation (http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1254904376122030.xml&coll=2) can eat my shorts. So to speak.

[Toasterlad]

8. should have just raised an ethics issue

In what possible way is this an "ethics issue"?

[anigbrowl]

12. Simple. You're not supposed to load your sexy pics on city property.

Same way it wouldn't appropriate to keep sexy 4x6 prints in your office desk. The fact that it's a picture of yourself is irrelevant, the fact of the cross-dressing is irrelevant.

[Toasterlad]

15. A Breach of Protocol Is Not an "Ethics" Issue

An ethics issue implies there is something morally questionable about the situation. I fail to see how a man dressed as a woman is immoral. These pictures were not "on display". They were in his computer. They were discovered; he was not sharing them.

[LisaL]

10. Office computer? Really?

[busybl]

3. it isn't the cross dressing

it's having the poor judgment to display it publicly. Makes you wonder about his judgment in general.

[berni_mccoy]

4. Why, I've NEVER Heard of such a thing! A Cross Dressing MAYOR!?! NOOOO!

[anigbrowl]

7. Yeah, it's kinda different

That was what I thought of the first time I heard the story too, but Mayor Brewer's pictures are definitely meant for the sexy time. Like I said above, I see nothing wrong with this in and of itself, but those pictures should absolutely not be stored on the office computer. That was just terminally stupid.

[LisaL]

9. Why was he keeping "personal" photos on his office computer?

Jeez.

[ljm2002]

11. Saw your headline, thought it must be about Rudy Giuliani... :-) n/t

[WCGreen]

13. I've know Eric for 20 years or so...

I worked on a local magazine he was putting out to the inner city way back in the early 90's.

He always was looking, searching for that one action that would gain him the attention needed to be in the lime light.

I quickly saw what he was all about and was drawn to a more legitimate alternative (oxymoron?) magazine and lost track of him.

I was shocked when he won the mayors office in East Cleveland, a mess of a city that is possibly one of the most destitute and dilapidated city in all of the nation. But I was more surprised when he started off quickly doing some good. It looked like he had finally found a niche for himself.

Well, then there was the pictures and one of the sensational driven local TV News Teams decided to focus all it's attention toward East Cleveland. Normally EC gets attention only when a grisly crime is committed. Otherwise no one even cares what goes on in this forgot city that at one time was the stomping grounds of such captains of industry as John D. Rockefeller.

Eric, I feel sorry for him but more so for his city. He was mercurial and egotistic and so he was defeated by his own carelessness. But like many men with too much power on their mind, he made a terrible mistake; he thought he was invincible.

[Swamp Rat]

14. So. I've dressed in drag.

It's fun! :)

[gatorboy]

17. There goes your political career!

Nice gams though!

[ddeclue]

16. Who cares? Was he the mayor of "Pleasantville?" Is this the 1950's?

:crazy: