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By all accounts, William Scott Janke seemed qualified to do his job as Fort Myers town manager. If anything, he tended to be aggressive and maybe a bit of a control-freak, according to a newspaper archive search.

But they knew that before they hired him.

What they didn’t know was that he would end up married to a porn star; a woman known as Jazella Moore, renowned in the porn industry as a horny MILF who hails from Portugal.

When that came out, the conservative town council voted 5-0 to terminate him “without cause.”

Meanwhile, the Miami City Commission didn’t raise a peep when it was discovered that Miami City Manager Pete Hernandez retained a fired city executive at the same salary.

Shirley Richardson was executive director of the ineffective Miami Civilian Investigative Panel making $168,000 a year, but she was fired because she basically did nothing.

Hernandez then took her on as an assistant to an assistant at the same salary and benefits. A position that was created just for her.

And not a word from the city commission. Nor the taxpayers for that matter.

But across the southern tip of our state in Fort Myers, Janke gets fired over the occupation of his wife; a woman he married last October, five months after accepting the job as town manager.

I could understand if he had hired her as an assistant to an assistant.

Fort Myers officials said they were “looking out for the best interests of the town.”

I wish somebody would look out for the best interests of my city. And I personally wouldn’t care if he was married to a porn star as long as he didn’t abuse my tax money.

Janke, a 20-year veteran of the public sector since he graduated from the University of Florida, was making about $100,000 a year. He will now receive a six-month severance package worth about $50,000.

Meanwhile, the popularity of his wife is bound to shoot up, so that should help pay the bills as well.