Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I almost felt sorry for the mayor of Talofofo while watching the tube news last night........seems a few Fofo citizens want to oust the man because he'a morally corrupt.....and because he wasn't/isn't living in Fofo.....I guess if you're a mayor of a village, you're supposed to be living in the village.
Okay, so........the mayor is alleged to have a formed an affair with a lady in the mayor's office....it would have been okay....only thing is........the dude is married and most women aren't cool with such relationships.......so, seems he got 'moved' out of the family home.....and the mayor had to move to an apartment on the outskirts of Fofo village, raising the ire of the villagers. The ire was partly for the mayor's living out of the village and partly because the mayor was morally corrupt(gads, what's a better description for being unfaithful-alleged, of course!!)
The dude didn't deny the allegations, did say he was unhappy that his family had to watch the t.v. show(hey, like, if you didn't do anything the kids wouldn't have had to watch anything) and that he was a good mayor(hmn, just not a good husband?-I digress) Okay, at the end of the news, it was said that the dude is back at his village, not sure living where and that GEC is meeting next week to discuss if he will be recalled................
Alas! We are mere mortals....and sometimes our emotions get the better of us..........There are the Julianis, the Gingrichs and the Kennedy's of the world that break the promise they make to their God at the altar 'to promise to love and cherish'.........the fabric of our families these days are threadbare.......families that are together are the exception and not the rule......times have changed and this mayor will not the the first or last mayor to have left his wife for a younger, prettier or sweeter woman and the reverse is true for a mayor's wife who recognizes the lies early on. The sad reality is that we live in a society where it used to be 'personal' when these things happened and now because of the cameras and internet, we all get to be in front row seats watching the scenes unfold. The bottom line is........if you don't want your dirty laundry to unfold in public.......don't become a public figure!