Eugene Robinson said sex was the last thing on his mind as he drove the pretty young woman who had asked for a ride to her motel.

“I was waiting for God to send me the one that’s supposed to be my Christian wife,” he said. “That’s what it says in the Bible.”

Yet within minutes of taking the woman to a cheap motel in neighboring Absecon, the 67-year-old Atlantic City Councilman and Baptist minister was receiving oral sex.

“I was so surprised,” he testified Wednesday in an Atlantic County courtroom. “I, um, hadn’t really had any sexual activity since ’89. I thought that, naively, we were going to just pet.”

He didn’t know that the woman was a prostitute hired by his political rivals to lure him into a sex sting, and that a camera hidden in a clock radio near the bed was recording the tryst.

Three men are on trial for conspiracy, criminal coercion and invasion of privacy in the videotaping case, which prosecutors allege was intended to ruin Robinson politically and personally for switching political allegiances from former Council President Craig Callaway, who had just admitted taking bribes and was on his way to prison.
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“At first I kept saying, `No, no, no’ “Robinson testified. “But then I thought, `If you send a tourist away angry, they’ll tell people not to come to Atlantic City. I don’t think she would have been able to convince me if I wasn’t so tired.”

Yeah, this was all about not upsetting a tourist.