Written by Bill G on Monday, March 31st, 2008 in Babes, Finland, Government, culture, politics, travel.
Bill G here, hanging out in Jamsa, Finland.
You know, the Finns, even though isolated out here in Scandanavia, are just like us. First, of course, there was the Pekka Eric incident, which we Americans understand all too well. We have these “incidents” all the time.
Now comes a Finnish politician in a text message scandal, just like Kilpatrick.
Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva in trouble over text messages to erotic dancer
Finland’s foreign minister faced calls for his resignation on Saturday after a tabloid newspaper published a suggestive text message he had sent to an erotic dancer.
Ilkka Kanerva sent about 200 text messages to Johanna Tukiainen, 29, and at first said they were related to her performing at his 60th birthday party.
On Friday he admitted the messages were not totally appropriate. “I would not present them in Sunday School, but they are not totally out of line either,” the daily Helsingin Sanomat quoted him as saying. The Ilta-Sanomat daily said that in one of the messages Kanerva had asked Tukiainen: “Would you like to do it in an exotic place? Where could it be?”
Fellow parliamentarian Tuija Nurmi, also of the conservative party, has said Kanerva should resign, and opposition leader Eero Heinaluoma said the situation cannot continue as it is now.

Johanna Tukiainin, Finnish babe
Tukiainen, who has posed nude in magazines and is the leader of the Scandinavian Dolls erotic dance troupe, first sold the text messages to Hymy magazine, and then sought a court injunction to stop their publication. A Helsinki court rejected the request. The magazine said it would publish the messages in its next issue, due to be released on Wednesday.
Kanerva’s longstanding partner has said she has accepted his apology over the matter. This is not the first time Kanerva has been in trouble over his mobile phone use. In 2005, when he was the deputy speaker of parliament, he bombarded two models with text messages.
OK, so it’s not exactly on the level of an Eliot Spitzer drama, but hey, at least they’re trying!