Sheboygan voters elected a new mayor yesterday. It was the first time they recalled a mayor.
Bob Ryan was ousted by Terry Van Akkeren.
From Reuters:
The mayor of a Wisconsin town whose heavy drinking last summer sparked pressure to step down lost a special election on Tuesday to a former Democratic state representative.
First-term Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan, 48, lost the first mayoral recall election in the city's history to Terry Van Akkeren, 57.
Van Akkeren received about 53 percent of the votes cast to Ryan's 46 percent, according to unofficial returns from the city clerk's office.
More than 4,000 Sheboygan voters had signed petitions to force the recall after Ryan was caught on tape making sordid jokes about a sister-in-law and was photographed passed out in a tavern during a drinking binge last summer.
Ryan had said on Monday he believed the recall election may have served as an intervention. He has said he has not had a drink for months.
"I have nothing to be ashamed of," Ryan said Tuesday after learning of the results, adding that he would not run again for mayor, "but maybe I'll write a book."
Well, Ryan does have some things to be ashamed of.
They'd probably make for interesting reading if he's serious about writing a book.
It sounds like Ryan is hoping to sell the rights to his story, maybe a made-for-TV movie on cable.
Ryan's antics received national attention. He might think he can exploit that.
Fame at what price?
YouTube can be a curse.
Here's video from FOX6 News:
Video from TMJ4:
Here's video of Bob Ryan's concession speech:
Ryan is certainly angry at the media.
He wants to be seen as a victim, ostracized because of his addiction to alcohol. He was supposed to just go away.
Comparing himself to "the way we used to treat girls, teenage girls back in the 50s where they'd have an issue and they'd send them away and then they'd come back all nice and shiny" was weird to say the least.
Ryan isn't like a pregnant teenager, but like it or not, he was sent away.
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