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Mahoney on Sex Scandal: "I Will Ride This Out"
Looks like the reality hasn't quite sunk in yet for Tim Mahoney.
The red-faced Florida Democrat, who lost his House seat this month after admitting to at least two affairs, showed up today to a Financial Services Committee hearing today, ignoring the advice of the committee staff and even that of his own aides, reports ABCNews.com.
What's more, Mahoney aides say he told them he wanted to meet privately with committee chair Barney Frank to offer his advice on the economic crisis.
As he left the hearing room, Mahoney told the website: "I'm still a congressman with a job to do, and I intend to ride this out."
But one of his staff members took a different view, telling ABCNews.com: "Someone didn't get the memo that he wasn't re-elected."
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My view on this is good for him. He replaced a guy who was diddling little boys; so this guy has sex with women he isn't married to, that's a huge improvment. I think we need to get back to not covering legal sexual behavior, of either party.
Cheating on your spouse is an extremely hurtful thing to do, but not relevant to the quality of representation.
November 18, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
How 'bout threatening the staffer who wouldn't give it up anymore and trying to bribe her out the door? That good on him, too?
November 18, 2008 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Breaking News... VP Cheney and former AG Gonzales indicted today in Texas.
sorry for being off topic, but we need a lift today.
November 18, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Question: The 2006 election was notable in that zero Democratic seats, in either the House, the Senate, or in Governor's mansions, switched from blue to red. Democrats did not win every single fight in 2006, but the only fights they lost were fights were they were challengers; the Republicans won nothing except fights to preserve what they already had.
2008 apparently didn't work that way since Tim Mahoney lost his seat to Rooney. But I'm wondering-- was that the only example? Were there any other cases in the 2008 elections of a (D) seat switching to (R), in the house senate or a gubernatorial race, other than Tim Mahoney?
November 19, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know about others, but Nick Lampson was an incumbent Democrat who lost in TX-22 to Pete Olson (45-52). It's a heavily Republican district that Lampson won in 2006 largely because Tom Delay was still on the ballot even though he had withdrawn from the race. His main opposition was a Republican write-in candidate, the insane Shelley Sekula-Gibbs (he won 52-42).
November 19, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
In a similar case, Don Cazayoux lost in the Louisiana district he won just a few months earlier in a special election against a weak, perennially-losing Republican. I lived in that strongly conservative district for 7 1/2 years. Cazayoux might have had a chance on Nov. 4, but an African-American who had lost in the primary ran as an independent in the general election, winning about 15% of the vote.
I hope he gets the representation he deserves.
I do feel fortunate that the Louisiana-style "open primary" system that was on the ballot in my new state of residence, Oregon, lost by an overwhelming margin.
November 21, 2008 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink