Jersey City Councilman Steve Lipski Likes Cold Rain And Snow... And Warm Pee On Your Head

Lipski-- Can you imagine him in tie-dyed bells?

New Jersey politics at the city and county level isn't something any of us at DWT spend too much time looking at. Republican politics is ugly enough without digging down to this level. But last month I was admiring a young reformer, Steven Fulop, a Jersey City councilman who the NY Times featured. Fulop is crusading against pay-to-play and double-dipping, the kind of corruption New Jersey politicians of both parties are famous for. In that story they happened to mention a Fulop adversary-- and believe me, it's hard to defend corruption-- another Jersey City councilman named Steve Lipski. Never thought twice about it until this morning when Noah sent me a note about Lipski having been arrested last week.

I love when corrupt political hacks get arrested. Arrests aren't enough for me either. Of course, ultimately, I'm hoping Gene Burns' musings about Dick Cheney in the Hague come true. But Lipski wasn't arrested for devising a torture regime and he wasn't even arrested for corruption. He was arrested for doing what most corrupt politicians do, though: pissing on the voters from on high.

Lipski, who let loose with the golden showers from a balcony, says he was high on booze and says he won't be drinking anymore. However, the peeing incident happened at DC's 930 Club at a Dark Star concert. They're a Grateful Dead tribute band so there's some question about if it was only alcohol coursing through the 44 year old councilman's system at the time. This was the first time he was caught pissing on an audience but he's a well-known belligerent drunk and trouble-maker. He was charged with assault. Both Letterman and Leno covered this one-- and there's a Facebook group demanding he resign. He won't.

Noah wasn't that riled up when he sent me the story. "This guy was really just expressing what most politicians feel about the people. I'm kinda surprised that he didn't just lower his fat, pimply ass over the rail and take a dump. He probably just felt that 'When in Washington, do like they do in Washington.' After all, Bush has been doing it for 8 years. Politics in Jersey City is more like Romper Room anyway. Lipski even once tried to run for mayor. Sigh, I guess he'll never be Governor now!"

This is when Pigpen was still in the Dead, a couple years before the nasty little pisher was born: