A married, Catholic Louisiana politician is facing calls to resign after it came to light that he sexted with a 17-year-old boy, bought him expensive underwear, and made out with him a little bit in a food court. Mike Yenni, who’s now president of Jefferson Parish but was mayor of the city of Kenner at the time, hasn’t said whether he’ll resign. He did, however, release a commercial about the sexting. As you do.
WWL TV reported in late September that Yenni exchanged sexually explicit texts with the teenager in 2015, when he was mayor, and that the FBI was investigating the messages. However, as the Times-Picayune notes, the age of consent is 17 in Louisiana, meaning that Yenni’s problem here is political, not necessarily legal. Yenni is the father of a toddler and met the teen at a Catholic school where he was giving a talk. They met once at a food court, where Yenni gifted the youth some undies; the more explicit texts included one where Yenni reportedly proposed having group sex with the teen and a friend.