We’ve all done our share of bragging. Some of us even enjoy bragging about our sexual conquests. The more depraved among us take special pleasure in bragging about the women that we’re seeing behind our wives backs. But none of us quite stack up to California State Representative Mike Duvall (R-Orange County).
Duvall made the mistake of blathering about his affair(s) into a microphone.
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Kind of hard to back away from that without looking like a scumbag. Especially when you’re a conservative Christian who claims to defend “family values” and attacks gay marriage efforts. Did I mention that he also owns an insurance company? Yeah, there’s not much to like about this guy. To top it all off, both of the women that he bragged about having an affairs with are lobbyists. Holy shit. That ain’t right on so many levels.
The aftermath of this has been swift. Duvall resigned before the end of the day that the news broke. Today, he had something in the way of a statement regarding his, um, resignation-
I want to make it clear that my decision to resign is in no way an admission that I had an affair or affairs. My offense was engaging in inappropriate story-telling and I regret my language and choice of words. The resulting media coverage was proving to be an unneeded distraction to my colleagues and I resigned in the hope that my decision would allow them to return to the business of the state.
Are you fucking serious? You don’t have to make it clear that your decision to resign was or wasn’t about your admission of your affair(s). We know it was. You were caught on tape bragging about them in detail. We even know who one of the women was. You know it’s not a good situation that you’re in when you alternative to admitting to two affairs is to just tell everyone that you were a liar and a braggart who likes making up raunchy tales about your fake sex life. You might as well say that you resigned to “spend more time with your family.” It’d be just as believable.
