Another lewd politician in Florida? Unpossible!

Thus far I have no evidence that would permit me to file this under the Florida GOP Police Blotter, but if that changes, I'll update accordingly. At any rate, we have another south Florida politician who's been arrested for lewd and lascivious conduct:

Former Mayor John Sommerer, who ran City Hall for 10 years, was arrested and booked by Coral Springs Police Wednesday on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct.

Details of the alleged crime were not immediately available.

Sommerer served as mayor for 10 years, between 1994-2004.

Sommerer (pictured above), 60, is married and has four sons. Besides being a "family man," he has done some Republican-like things:

One of his pet projects was correcting the city's ZIP code glitch. He led the charge to try to convince the U.S. Postal Service for years that mail for city residents shouldn't be addressed to Pompano Beach, saying that the city has lost state revenue sharing funds and insurance premium tax allocations, which are distributed by ZIP code.

During his time in office he also pushed for the American flag to be displayed without showing signs of being tattered or worn-out, saying it was a dishonor to fly the flag in frayed condition and supported art being displayed in public places.

Of course, the lewd and lascivious conduct itself is "Republican-like" these days, isn't it?

Sommerer ran for office, as all Coral Springs officials do, as "nonpartisan," which makes party identification difficult. In addition, he appears not to have made any political contributions that could reveal his party alignment.

Still, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and engages in sexual misconduct (allegedly) like a duck (by "duck," of course, I mean "Republican") ... well, as I always say, it would be irresponsible not to speculate, wouldn't it?

UPDATE (3:33 pm 12/19/07): Well, it didn't take long for details of the allegations (PDF) to be made public. There are nine counts in the indictment, and they're pretty damn skeevy if you ask me.

Basically, you've got bad touching (as opposed to good touching, of course) of a person (evidently female) under 12; touching a person under 16 with his genitals; and coercing a girl -- presumably the same one in each case -- to (1) "utilize a hose to spray water over his exposed penis," (2) "ride on a motor scooter adjacent to him and not to wear an undergarment to cover her genital area," and (3) "retrieve a balloon or balloon-like object that he had positioned against his exposed genitalia while [they] were in a swimming pool... ."

I'm still trying to find out for sure if this guy's a Republican or not.