Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner Charged With Buying Sex Through Brothel RingThis is the "common sense" (meaning small c conservative) councilor. (He was also a buddy of my old neighbor that wouldn't do anything about their dog that would bark all the time and jump on kids.) Generally a NIMBY, pro-business, and anti-transparency guy, he was also pro-cop. I'm guessing he would have been anyway, but the brothel was
busted in November of 2023, so maybe he was a little extra pro-cop after that.
Mostly, I love that he's been sweating about this for a full year.
I actually have no problem with his soliciting a prostitute as long as everyone was actually consenting and not coerced. But you can bet that he would be speaking out against brothels in a "family community" if it came up before his visits.
I don't know what this will do to his base, who are generally "family values"-lite Whites that just do not want to hear about racial stuff and want the homeless shoved somewhere else. I mean, we have a pathologically lying convicted felon as president. If he sticks around, this could be brought up any time he talks about not wanting some "element" in a neighborhood, but I think the current council is probably too status-quoey to do that.