San Jose Escorts: San Mateo County sheriff running for re-election despite brothel scandal
San Mateo County sheriff running for re-election despite brothel scandal
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Munks, who authorities said was found inside the brothel, issued a statement a few days later saying he believed he was going to a legitimate business for a massage and that neither he nor Bolanos broke the law.
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County supervisors declined to question Munks about the brothel incident, saying they have no business interrogating another elected official acting on his own time. But after Reps. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, and Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, criticized supervisors’ lack of response in April 2008, the panel created the framework for an ethics commission that could be summoned to investigate wrongdoing by elected officials.
Despite the bad publicity that followed Munks’ visit to the illegal brothel, running against an incumbent sheriff is still considered a daunting task in a county of more than 700,000 people.