I will admit, when I first saw this story flit across my feed, I thought I was going to be covering some weird sex thing. Sadly Luckily, it’s a more standard story of corruption in city government that is so shoddy, it feels a little like a Will Ferrell film.
In Cranston, Rhode Island, Sue Stenhouse was the executive director of the Senior Enrichment Center up until last week, when it was revealed that she had asked a male employee of the center to dress as an old woman for a press conference that was used to announce a new program wherein students shoveled snow for the elderly. The man, identified as David Roberts, played along remarkably well, wearing a wig, earrings, lipstick, and even a sticker identifying him as a “Cranston Senior Home Resident”:
From this story, we get two great quotes:
When asked by local news station WJAR-TV for comment, Stenhouse opened her front door and told the reporter, “I’ve been in a meeting all night being a great public servant for the city of
When approached by the AP, Roberts, salon owner Elaine Mancuso copped to selling Roberts the wig. “He says to me, ‘Elaine, do you have a wig that I could borrow? I have to get dressed as a senior. I said, ‘Oh, my God. He wanted it for that.’ I probably would have given him a better wig if I had known.”
h/t Gawker
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