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City official resign after having man dressup as an old lady
Is that you, Mrs Doubtfire? Rhode Island city official resigns after having a man dress up in DRAG as old woman for a photo op
- Sue Stenhouse, director of senior services in the City of Cranston, stepped down over the January 5 stunt
- Stenhouse enlisted the help of senior center van driver David Roberts, asking him to pose as an old lady during a press conference
- Roberts turned up at the event in a floral dress, grey curly wig, pink earrings and matching lipstick
- Press conference was called to announce launch of snow-shoveling program
Epic fail: In this January 5 still image from Latino Public Radio, Sue Stenhouse, left, director of the Senior Enrichment Center, speaks alongside a man dressed as an elderly woman, right, during a news conference in Cranston, Rhode Islandk
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A senior services official in Rhode Island has resigned over a bizarre 'Mrs Doubtfire'-inspired PR stunt involving a middle-aged man disguised as an old lady.
Sue Stenhouse, director of senior services in the City of Cranston, organized a news conference last Tuesday to announce the launch of the Snow Angels program, which encourages local teenagers to helps elderly residents during the cold winter months by shoveling driveways and pathways.
The event was attended by the mayor of Cranston, a group of beaming high school students armed with colorful shovels, and what at first glance appeared to be an elderly woman with a name tag that read 'Cranston Senior Home Resident.'
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The ruse involving the pear-wearing, bespectacled cross-dresser ended up costing the senior services dirctor her $55,000-a-year job
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It has since emerged that the ruddy-cheeked, curly-haired lady wearing pink lipstick and matching clip-on earrings was, in fact, a male van driver by the name David Roberts.
According to local reports, Stenhouse could not find a female senior citizen to take part in the snow shoveling program roll-out and decided to draft the senior center's van driver to make for a better photo-op.
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Local boy: According to his’ Facebook page, Roberts lives in Providence
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3xLE2Zk61
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