Councilman vows to quit alcohol after public urination bust!
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - November
10, 2008 - Pea-brained Jersey City Councilman Steven Lipski swore off
booze Sunday - two days after he was busted for urinating on a crowd of
revelers at a Washington, D.C. nightclub.
"I've resolved not to touch alcohol again," Lipski told reporters outside his home.
He called the incident "deeply humiliating, very embarrassing" and "troubling."
Still, the two-term Democrat refused to admit that he drunkenly relieved himself from the second-floor balcony of the 9:30 Club on Friday night.
"I can't comment on that," Lipski said. "I'm going to continue to do all the good things, and I'm not going to let this overshadow me."
Lipski's vow to lay off the bottle came after he spent the weekend reassuring pals and contributors that it was a spilled drink - not No.1 - that got him in hot water.
"I spoke to one of his contributors this morning, and he's denying the whole thing," one source said yesterday.
"He's telling people he spilled a drink. It's ridiculous. He's already said he's not resigning. He's telling people that."
Lipski, 44, in Washington to see a Grateful Dead tribute band, was hauled out of the concert hall by cops after staffers spotted him in the act about 9:50 p.m., club sources said.
He was charged with simple assault.
The incident is the second booze-linked black eye notched by Jersey City pols in two years.
Mayor Jerramiah Healy was arrested and pepper-sprayed outside a Jersey Shore nightclub in the summer of 2006, after tussling with local police.
"It's embarrassing for the city," said Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop. "If you are invested in the city or are considering it, it sends the wrong message."
