Lawmaker Censured Over Intern Sleepover

A Republican legislator apologized after he was censured and stripped of his committee leadership position for sleeping overnight on the floor of a female intern's apartment.

Assemblyman Michael Cole, a 35-year-old married father of two, had said he walked the intern home from an sports bar April 16 after watching a Stanley Cup playoff hockey game. He had said nothing inappropriate occurred and that he spent the night on the apartment floor after he felt he was too drunk to drive.

The 21-year-old intern was fired from the program. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver admonished Cole Thursday.

The Assembly's anti-fraternization policy was adopted in 2004 after several high-profile cases involving sexual relations and Assembly staffers. "I accept full responsibility for violating the intern fraternization policy that Speaker Silver put into place three years ago," Cole said in a statement.

She gets fired and he gets a stern reprimand and a demotion???

Why is she being punished for this obvious abuse of power? Why didn't he get fired from all his duties as well? Inequality is a bitch, ya'll.

Too drunk you say? Call a cab. Call a friend. Walk. Just don't give us the tired excuse of being drunk.