Posted on 11/09/2006 1:37:56 PM PST by MplsSteve
Ralph Mervine, executive director of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority, resigned Wednesday after a Tampa Tribune investigation found he is listed as the owner of a gay pornographic film production company.
The San Diego-based company, Coast Productions, operates at least two adult Web sites and has an adult Yahoo membership group. All three advertise and display young men, ages 18 to 21, offering photos and video clips of explicit sexual activities.
Coast Productions produces DVDs for sale at $39.95 apiece, as well as monthly Web site memberships to view shorter video clips of young men engaging in sex acts alone or with partners.
Mervine resigned hours after being approached by reporters about the company. He had worked for the authority since November 2004 as interim executive director. The board in July voted to make Mervine's position full time.
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Can you say the words "no vetting" and "no background check"?
I wonder who will take the fall for this one?
Comments or opinions - anyone?
This guy must of been a Republican, other wise there would of been no reason to resign...such actions are resume enhancements..to the democrats
Why is this a problem for a civil servant?
Is it against the law for him to have outside ownership in, although unsavory, LEGAL business enterprises?
Not familiar with the law in Tampa, but what are the restrictions?
So he had two jobs that involved profiting from screwing people?
Don't know. But there are a lot of companies that have a Code Of Conduct (or something of that nature) that requires employees to conduct themselves with discretion and honor outside the workplace.
The company I work for has that. A municipality I worked for (in the southern suburbs of Minneapolis) had one.
Glad it came out before he became a Republican Congressman.
I wonder if this guy is tied to the gay website company in Cocoa Beach, FL that is tied to the Foley scandal?
LOL!
Unless he signed something like that I do not think he did anything wrong (in the sense of the law).
But he tendered his resignation on his own will and through that will make this all but a little blib on the radar screen vs. a national press attention worth story.
Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway
now know as the Hershey Highway
The internet is why Al Gore will always get the crucial "perv" swing vote.
LOL!
Ewwwwwwwwww!
Gee. Maybe we should have a "Code of Conduct" for Congress.
Barney Frank runs an illegal gay prostitution service out of his apartment and that's OK. This poor schmuck runs a legal gay pornographic film production company and is forced to resign his job.
But he's from MASSachusetts.
The last line of the article is priceless. I think the reporter was making a funny.
Or your childrens' teacher.
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