U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney (D) Under Investigation

[Gan]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The FBI is investigating whether Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney broke any laws or misused federal money when he hired a mistress to work in his office, a senior federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Federal agents also are examining whether a second affair Mahoney was having with a high-level official in his Florida district was the reason behind his decision to push for federal emergency funds for her county, the official said.

The person spoke to The Associated Press only on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.

The FBI is looking into whether Mahoney hired the first mistress—and put her on the federal payroll—so she would not reveal their affair, the person said. The woman, Patricia Allen, has not returned calls for comment.

The agency also wants to know whether any sexual favors were exchanged for Mahoney helping Martin County secure a $3.4 million reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for hurricane damage there while having a second affair with a high-level county manager.

The second affair was confirmed by a person close to Mahoney's campaign. Mahoney has not returned calls for comment and repeated attempts to reach the manager have been unsuccessful.

Mahoney won his seat two years ago while promising to return morals and family values to Washington after former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley resigned amid revelations that he sent lurid Internet messages to male teenage pages on Capitol Hill. Foley was later cleared of criminal wrongdoing.

Mahoney is embroiled in a tough re-election challenge in a district that traditionally leans slightly Republican.

Though Mahoney has not directly addressed the affairs, he said in a statement earlier this week he takes "full responsibility for my actions and the pain I have caused my wife Terry and my daughter Bailey."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93RNO2OA&show_article=1
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Not good timing for Florida Democrats.

[Parkbandit]

Mahoney won his seat two years ago while promising to return morals and family values to Washington after former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley resigned amid revelations that he sent lurid Internet messages to male teenage pages on [/FONT] Capitol Hill.[FONT=Verdana] Foley was later cleared of criminal wrongdoing.


My favorite part of the story. My other favorite part of the article was that he was never called a Democrat or have a D by his name. In contrast, another AP story (same source) with Mark Foley:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned from Congress on Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former male page.
"I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I have had the privilege to represent," he said in a statement issued by his office.

The two-sentence statement did not refer to the e-mails and gave no reason for Foley's decision to abruptly abandon a flourishing career in Congress.

Foley, 52, had been a shoo-in for a new term until the e-mail correspondence surfaced in recent days.

His resignation comes less than six weeks before the elections. It was not clear how Republicans would fill his spot on the November ballot.

[RainyDay2080]

My favorite part of the story. My other favorite part of the article was that he was never called a Democrat or have a D by his name. In contrast, another AP story (same source) with Mark Foley:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned from Congress on Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former male page.

What are you talking about? They called him a Democrat in the first sentence, just like in the Foley article.

Agreed the best part was about claiming return to morals and family values though. If you can't do the walk, don't do the talk.

RD

[Parkbandit]

What are you talking about? They called him a Democrat in the first sentence, just like in the Foley article.

Agreed the best part was about claiming return to morals and family values though. If you can't do the walk, don't do the talk.

RD

:rofl:

I didn't even see that.. and I read it twice. Daddy needs coffee.....

(you should give me bad rep imo.. I deserve it :O )

[DeV]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The FBI is investigating whether Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney broke any laws or misused federal money when he hired a mistress to work in his office, a senior federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Depends on what kind of work she was doing and the architectual design of his desk. That's the first thing I would look into, hidden cubicles, specially designed openings, etc.

First rule of having a mistress work for you. Oh wait, you already broke it.

[TheEschaton]

I read about this the other day, what a fucking idiot.

I wonder if power is really all that intoxicating that you have to bone everything in sight.

[Gan]

Depends on what kind of work she was doing and the architectual design of his desk. That's the first thing I would look into, hidden cubicles, specially designed openings, etc.

First rule of having a mistress work for you. Oh wait, you already broke it.

I would check the area directly under his desk for trap doors so she can just pop up whenever needed.

Start with interrogating the building maint. dept. first. I'm sure they have come in weekly and unstick it.

[ElanthianSiren]

I read about this the other day, what a fucking idiot.

x2. Wow let's run on morals then show we're unscrupulous! It's like a bad eddie izzard politics routine.

[Parkbandit]

It's just PB wearing his usual, delusional right-wing fruitcake glasses that hide uncomfortable truths from him.

LOL.

Look at Twinkles saying others wear fruitcake glasses. Oh the irony.

Look in the mirror Twinkles... look in the mirror. No wonder you come to the internet to pretend you are something you are not.

[Keller]

What are you talking about? They called him a Democrat in the first sentence, just like in the Foley article.

Agreed the best part was about claiming return to morals and family values though. If you can't do the walk, don't do the talk.

RD

Is this the part where PB quotes himself in his own signature and stalks himself posting those two quotes over and over and over?

[Parkbandit]

I was talking about the fruitcake comment Twinkles.

And let's be at least intellectually honest.. if I'm a partisan mouthpiece hack, then you easily are one. If you can't be honest about that.. I seriously have no time for you.

For once.. just once.. be honest with yourself.

[Parkbandit]

:rofl:

You have an extremely closed mind. You dismiss facts out of hand because they don't suit your ideology, you delight in simply annoying people ideologically opposed to you (even look at your signature) and you regularly--hypocritically--call other people hypocrites.

It's interesting that accusations of partisanship, in your mind, are instantly reflected back to me. Do my levels of "fruitcakeness" have anything to do with yours? I'd say no, but either way, I don't think I'm anywhere near as bad as you. We might both be assholes, but I definitely don't fit into the leftist stereotype, while you pretty solidly present yourself as the typical Limbaugh fan.

So what you are saying is that it's impossible for you to be intellectually honest with yourself and others.

Check.

[Gan]

Really? That's the best you could do? Just repeating yourself?

/facepalm

You could've at least added one of your trademark idiotic images. I'll repay you the favor of repeating one's self: I have nothing to do with you being a giant, right wing Kool-Aid soaked douche.

Thank God.

Its bad enough that you're implicated in your own douche'ness.

[Parkbandit]

Really? That's the best you could do? Just repeating yourself?

/facepalm

You could've at least added one of your trademark idiotic images. I'll repay you the favor of repeating one's self: I have nothing to do with you being a giant, right wing Kool-Aid soaked douche.

If you don't believe you are a partisan liberal hack, then feel free to post up a poll and let the readers of your bullshit decide.

:shrug:

I'm sure you'll get a couple of your liberal lunatic friends to tell you that you aren't...

[Parkbandit]

:lol:

I suppose if you keep telling yourself you aren't a partisan mouthpiece hack... in your mind it's true.

Unfortunately for you, you have over 1000 posts proving it's not.

But hey Twinkles.. I'm not one to break your fantasies. Keep pretending you are something you are not.. you seem to feel the need to do this.

[Garnet Doyle]

Wow, a politician is in some trouble, i'm shocked.


It isn't a republican.
It isn't a republican who signed up to every anti-gay anti-queer defense of marriage bill in existance.
It isn't a republican who signed up to every anti-gay anti-queer defense of marriage bill in existance, then was caught either sending gay love letters to male staffers, or cruising for cock in an airport bathroom.



This may be the seventh sign.

[Parkbandit]

Yet another substanceless post that does nothing to debunk anything I've said other than "you keep telling yourself that"!

PB.. you're just.. an idiot. A right-wing delusional fruitcake.


Yet another substanceless post that does nothing to debunk anything I've said other than "You are right-wing".

Ashliana.. you are worse than an idiot. You THINK you are something you are not and have told yourself this so often that now you actually believe it. You somehow think you are a beacon of unbiased thought.. when in the reality the rest of us live in.. nothing could be further from the truth.

Continue to masquerade over the Internet when your real self is something you obviously loath as much as we do.

[Parkbandit]

Wow, a politician is in some trouble, i'm shocked.


It isn't a republican.
It isn't a republican who signed up to every anti-gay anti-queer defense of marriage bill in existance.
It isn't a republican who signed up to every anti-gay anti-queer defense of marriage bill in existance, then was caught either sending gay love letters to male staffers, or cruising for cock in an airport bathroom.



This may be the seventh sign.

Did you just post "B-b-b-b-but the Republicans"?

I'm sure Ashliana, in her quest to being considered unbiased, will clearly point this out to you.