"Wasilla councilman sanctioned after trashing hotel room"

Wasilla City Councilman Steve Menard is apologizing but will not resign after the city was billed for a Sitka hotel room that Menard apparently drunkenly trashed while on city business.

The Wasilla City Council is requiring Menard to pay the city back the entire cost of his trip to Sitka and forbidding him from any more travel on city business until his term expires in October 2013.

Menard was staying at the Westmark in Sitka earlier this month for a meeting of the Alaska Municipal League. The hotel reported that damage to his room included urine on two mattresses and a chair, vomit on the carpet, ruined bedding, and a burned mattress. It's not clear exactly how it was burned but the hotel bill said there had been smoking in what was a non-smoking room.

The Wasilla City Council met in a closed session at the end of its regular meeting Monday night to decide what to do about it. Before the session began, Menard gave a brief statement, according to an audio recording provided by the city.



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Must be something in the water out there.

he would have gotten in a lot more trouble. They protect their own out there in the Valley, don't they?

Must be nice to be connected.

Something about that isolation, no sunlight in winter and no night in summer makes one....:crazy:

Arctic Dave and I aren't :crazy: .

in my life. The worst thing I ever did is leave a wet towel on the bathroom floor. Being drunk is no excuse.

typical psychopathic republican.

.... pissed the beds, puked on the floor, ruined the bedding, and set a mattress on fire?