October 13th 2008
The Serial Adulterer Who Beat Mark Foley
W
e all remember Mark Foley, the Republican with a fondness for male pages, and the damage he caused the GOP in the last election. So ask yourself this question: How up are you on Tim Mahoney?
Hint: Google Blog Search only turns up a paltry 445 hits for “Rep. Tim Mahoney affair.”
Affair, you say? Well, yes. The Dem who defeated Foley by running on a holier than thou ticket is a serial adulterer. ABC broke the story, and Fox is building on it. This is from Fox:
According to ABC News, Mahoney, who is married, started an affair with Patricia Allen while campaigning against Foley on a morality platform. Allen came on to his staff after he won the election in 2006, but when complaints about the alleged affair surfaced, Mahoney moved Allen to the campaign staff, aides told the broadcast network.
ABC reported Allen tried to break off the affair after learning Mahoney was supposedly cheating on her and his wife with other women. In response, he threatened her job, ABC reported.
“You work at my pleasure,” Mahoney told Allen in a taped Jan. 20, 2008, telephone call played for Mahoney staffers, ABC reported.
Lovely, and so very old school – dropping trou for any skirt that’s handy and beating down any complaints with threats based on control over the woman’s livelihood. This from the party that promises change you can believe in.
In Mahoney’s defense, he did come up believing in change. Instead of continuing to threaten Patricia Allen’s livelihood, he offered her $121,000 to shut up and go away. If that was campaign money, Mahoney’s troubles have just begun.
It’s said that Mahoney faces stiff opposition in his re-election campaign. I should say so.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel spoke to Mahoney in early 2007 about the affair and apparently has been working to keep the story downplayed in order to get Mahoney re-elected – this from the party that was so very morally offended by Foley. And don’t give me that “Well, Foley was gay, at least Mahoney’s straight” line – the Dems are supposed to love their gay constituents, viewing homosexuality as no different from heterosexuality.
Over 18 months after the DNC learned of the affair, the jig is finally up. Recent coverage has forced it into the open, and today NanPo called for an investigation.
“I just learned today about the serious allegations concerning Congressman Tim Mahoney,” Pelosi said in a statement. “These charges must be immediately and thoroughly investigated by the House Ethics Committee.”
Just learned today? Anyone believe that? She’s either a lousy speaker or a lousy liar.
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October 13th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Mahoney the Adulterer is one more data point supporting the truism that voters expect Republicans to be righteous and Democrats to be sleaze.After clinton-fatigue set in, the higher expectations voters place in Republicans for meeting standards of moral behavior benefitted George W. Bush and buried Al Gore. It didn’t take long for many voters change their minds and begin to long for the return of the Party party and resent the Adult party. So now we see that in present circumstances a rumor spreading campaign can sink Republicans while hard facts of immoral behavior don’t weigh down Democrats at all.