MCKENZIE CASSIDY – Lehigh Acres Citizen:
A South Florida town manager who married a porn star last year was fired at an emergency meeting after the mayor and council members learned about it.
Fort Myers Beach town council voted 5-0 to fire Scott Janke “without cause” after Mayor Larry Kiker called the Tuesday night meeting.
Kiker said he learned that afternoon that Janke’s wife is an adult film star, and the elected officials took the action a few hours later.
According to Mayor Kiker, Mr Janke’s life style has nothing to do with his firing. It’s just that they feel that this marriage would cause disruption in his ability to do his job. “One of the reasons we brought him here is that there were some divisive problems on the beach,” Kiker said. “We wanted him to bring people together.” Sounds to me like someone wants to curtail the parties at the various bars on the beach… Heaven forbid that someone should have a good time.
According to the News-Press of Fort Myers Councilman Tom Babcock that Janke was fired because his wife’s profession brought an inaccurate image to Fort Myers Beach. Image? What image? I’ve been to Fort Myers Beach. It’s a gulf coast tourist trap.
Besides how could anyone believe that the profession (probably former profession) of the city manager’s wife could possibly make one iota of difference in the city’s image. — It’s not like she’s going to be make movies in the middle of main street.
It sounds to me like the problem is most likely the mayor’s wife and/or the wives of the council members. Men tend to have a live and let live about such things, but women tend to get bent out of shape about this sort of thing. –Either that or the town is run by bible thumpers.
