RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: El Monte City Manager brings new meaning to "Political Prostitution." He got BUSTED!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

El Monte City Manager brings new meaning to "Political Prostitution." He got BUSTED!

Speaking of Political Prostitutes in the San Gabriel Valley...

El Monte City Manager Jim Mussenden was arrested on Thursday night on suspicion of soliciting prostitution in Pomona.

Is this guy totally stupid, or is he another City Manager who thinks that they are "above the law?"

Mussenden, 59, was among 30 suspects arrested during a six-hour sting, which began at 6 p.m. near east Holt Boulevard. He was cited, given a court date and released, Pomona police said. Mussenden referred all questions about the arrest to his attorney on Friday.

According to the El Monte City Website, Mussenden was hired as City Manager on July 1, 2006. He has worked for the City of El Monte since 1983, almost 25 years serving as El Monte’s Code Enforcement Manager. Code Enforcement Manager? Are you kidding me? He was actually responsible for ENFORCING the LAWS of EL MONTE, and gets popped by the Pomona Police Department for Prostitution solicitation?

The El Monte City Council has scheduled an emergency meeting for Saturday at 12:30 p.m. The council will consider in closed session Mussenden's "discipline, dismissal, or release," according to the meeting's agenda. It has also placed on the agenda "consideration of appointment of city manager."

Councilwoman Emily Ishigaki thinks the council will put Mussenden on administrative leave, and that he will resign. "There is no way he could stay on. I don't think Jim would cause himself that embarassment," she said.

The sting involved undercover police officers posing as both prostitutes and customers in an area known for heavy prostitution activity, according to Pomona Ltn. Alex Rilloraza.

Twelve women and 18 men were arrested in the sting. The men without outstanding warrants were cited and given a court date, Rilloraza said.

Mussenden has been active in the El Monte Kiwanis Club and the Boys & Girls Club of San Gabriel Valley, according to his biography on the city's Web site. He is married with an adult daughter.

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