Naked (Repub)Ex-mayor Arrested at Campsite

[tekisui]

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A former mayor found sitting naked and holding a beer at a Rabun County campsite told police he wasn’t the same naked man seen walking around earlier.

Mark Musselwhite, 43, said he was hot and had been in the creek, according to a Georgia Department of Natural Resources incident report. He apparently didn’t think he was doing anything wrong.

Musselwhite, of Gainesville, was arrested last weekend after being confronted by state DNR authorities. He was charged with public indecency.

“He told me he was the ex-mayor of the city Gainesville and he was a very political person,” DNR Ranger Brandon Walls wrote in the report.

Walls and a deputy sheriff went to the campsite Saturday evening after a complaint of a man walking naked in Earls Ford Road, according to the report. Musselwhite appeared to be intoxicated, and several alcoholic beverages were at the campsite, Walls said.

Walls said he had spoken to Musselwhite earlier in the day regarding an ATV the former mayor was driving.

“He looked at us and said hello,” according to the report.

Musselwhite then asked why he was being visited.

“I said the complainant had specifically said his campsite, and the fact that he was still nude made me think it was him,” Walls wrote.

Musselwhite denied that he was the nude man identified in the complaint.

An unidentified female was also at the campsite.

Musselwhite, a Republican, was elected to the City Council in 2000. He served on the council for six years, including as mayor of the town. In 2006, he lost a bid for a state Senate seat.

Musselwhite previously served as deacon of First Baptist Church in Gainesville.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/06/26/naked_mayor_arrested.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

[lame54]

1. Is he an R or a D?

[tekisui]

2. RRRRRRREPUBBIE!

[lame54]

3. Sweeeeet

[Catshrink]

6. Doesn't matter, Fox will put a "D" by his name anyway.

:evilgrin:

[predfan]

4. I wish I had a quarter for everytime the police visited my campsite and questioned me,

as an unidentified female friend and I sat naked.

I'd be a wealthy man today.

Very wealthy.

[Vidar]

11. Instead you apparently have a wealth of fond memories.

[Mari333]

5. These guys really like to undress dont they

there's so much of it lately. and having the nerve to give us the Bums Rush when they are caught.

[teenagebambam]

7. Republican, check.

Baptist, check. Florida, check. Yes, everything seems to be in order here, move along!

[deadmessengers]

10. Georgia, actually. n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. If he wanted to go au natural,

there are plenty of clothing optional places he could have gone. No, I think he was just drunk and so lost all sense. Interesting that he was a Baptist Deacon. I thought that church was agin' drinkin'.

[Generic Brad]

9. It could have been worse

He could have been dancing.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. Very true

some friends of mine were leading the Dances of Universal Peace in a wilderness park and a nudist joined them for a dance or two then left. Of course they didn't mind he had nothing on; and I think it was around Boulder, CO.