Puerto Rico's Anthony Weiner is much more thrilling than ours: Last week, images from Puerto Rican senator and GOP cheerleader Roberto Arango's alleged profile on gay hook-up app Grindr surfaced. When a Puerto Rican TV show confronted him, Arango neither confirmed nor denied making the profile but offered this excuse: 
 
 You know I've been losing weight. As I shed that weight, I've been taking pictures. I don't remember taking this particular picture but I'm not gonna say I didn't take it. I'd tell you if I remembered taking the picture but I don't. 
 
 All an innocent mistake. Simple misunderstanding. I thought "Grindr" was a community for trading work-out tips? I've been having trouble toning my torso. Also, this area right here, lemme get the angle right so you can see it — 
 
 Aahh, there, much better. Really been trying to tone my grundle these days! Better post this picture on Grindr, too. Need advice on how to lose these three extra pounds from the inside of my asscrack. 
 
 Arango, a member of the Puerto Rican Senate, vice-chaired George W. Bush's 2004 Puerto Rico campaign. [Guanabee] ||||| Video of Brazil’s legislature caught João Rodrigues and other lawmakers ogling pornography and racy modeling photos during a vote on government reform. The video, released by SBT, shows Rodrigues, a federal deputy representing the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, opening multiple images of naked or scantily-clad women and alternating between hiding his phone under his desk, and showing his favorite image to male colleagues. João Rodrigues isn’t the first federal lawmaker to be caught watching porn on his phone, but he might be the first to defend himself in an interview. 
 
 “I participate in around 70 groups on Whatsapp, each one with 20 or 30 people, including 30 mayors and 150 councilors from all over the state of Santa Catarina. I always open messages on the floor during the session because I also receive questions or suggestions from [colleagues and constituents],” Rodrigues told Folha de São Paulo in an interview. 
 
 The female anchor for SBT describing Rodrigues’ questionable actions sounded disgusted “It was flagrant: one glance, another glance, phone in hand watching women in obscene acts.” The male writers who interviewed the the deputy were more sympathetic, opening their article by pointing out that he was probably very bored. “João Rodrigues (PSD-SC) wasn’t 100 percent focused during the extremely long debates on private finance reelection and other matters,” wrote Ranier Bragon of Folha. 
 
 Rodrigues isn’t alone in his scumbaggery and lack of concentration. British Tory MP Nigel Mills apologized to constituents after playing Candy Crush during a pensions committee session in 2014. Italian MP Simeone di Cagno Abbrescia, of Berlusconi’s Freedom Party, was eyed browsing an escorts website on his iPad in 2011. Despite multiple photos of him browsing through individual sex workers profiles, Abbrescia insisted that the site just popped up.
– Another day, another politician who cannot keep his clothes on around cell phones. This time, the exhibitionist seems to be Puerto Rican conservative Sen. Roberto Arango, who had several anatomically vivid pics show up on popular gay cruising app Grindr, reports Gawker. When asked about the photos by a Puerto Rican TV station, Arango responded with an Anthony Weiner-esque non-denial: "You know I've been losing weight. As I shed that weight, I've been taking pictures. I don't remember taking this particular picture but I'm not gonna say I didn't take it. I'd tell you if I remembered taking the picture but I don't." Even more damning than the initial photo, which showed a shirtless man with his face covered (but wearing a necklace similar to one Arango commonly wears), was a second pic apparently found on the same Grindr account, showing a nude man bent over, from behind. Several prominent Puerto Rican politicians, including the governor, called on Arango to resign if the photos are of him. Arango, who was vice-chair of George Bush's re-election committee in Puerto Rico in 2004, is known for opposing gay rights legislation.