Posted on 04/08/2014 10:45:52 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
April 08, 2014, 12:54 pm Husband of woman McAllister kissed: 'He has wrecked my life'
By Rebecca Shabad
The husband of the woman who was caught kissing Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.) in a video that surfaced Monday says the congressman has destroyed his life and marriage.
“I’m just freaking devastated by the whole deal, man. I loved my wife so much. I cannot believe this. I cannot freaking believe it. I feel like I’m going to wake up here in a minute, and this is all going to be a bad nightmare,” Heath Peacock told CNN on Tuesday.
Peacock told CNN he wasn’t aware of what happened until his wife, Melissa Peacock, 33, called him a few hours before the news broke.
“He has wrecked my life,” Peacock said of McAllister on CNN. “We’re headed for divorce.”
The couple has been married for six years, and they have a 6-year-old son.
“It was just a kiss; that was all it was, but it embarrassed me and my family,” Peacock said. “This guy has turned my life upside down.”
His wife was seen kissing McAllister in surveillance footage that went viral on Monday. The Ouachita Citizen said it obtained the video clip from an anonymous source. It was recorded on Dec. 23, a month after McAllister was sworn into office.
Melissa Peacock was the congressman’s district scheduler, and was taken off payroll as of Monday night.
McAllister, meanwhile, says he doesn’t plan to resign and has asked God, his family and his constituents for forgiveness.
The congressman said he told his wife of 16 years about the encounter earlier this year, and they are working through it.
McAllister was elected to replace Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.) in a special election last fall. He ran ads touting his Christian faith, but Peacock told CNN he believed that was just a ploy for votes.
"I know his beliefs. When he ran one of his commercials, he said ‘I need your prayers,’ and I asked, ‘When did you get religious?’ He said, ‘When I needed votes,’ ” Peacock said. “He broke out the religious card, and he’s about the most nonreligious person I know.”
It was a post-coitus, tickle your belly with my tongue through your mouth, God, I never want this to end, but I need to pick up the kids from school, but I here's something for the road, I'll be eagerly awaiting the next time, kinda kiss.
Definitely a ‘post-intercourse’ kiss.
She should have thought of that before. If my wife kissed another man like that I’d probably be willing to still be her husband as best I can, but we’d be in different bedrooms.
I’d never do to her, no matter the temptation, what this woman did to her husband.
she did no such thing... btw--he should be out of job and never work in politics again...
I don’t think so...
Didn’t Rep. Vance McAllister say it was more than just a kiss? Either way, I sure hope Heath Peacock can sort this out with his wife. Adultery is a tough thing to deal with, but they have a son. I hope and pray they can overcome the sin and fix their marriage.
Lol, fantastic description.
So it was more than just a friendly bye-see-you-later kiss. More than one and continuous?
The video shows that she initiated the kids the very moment they walked into the focus of the camera.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not condoning his behavior, but this is a bit like the instant karma video where the guy wrecked his truck. Sure, he was wrong, but the woman video recording was wrong too.
That’s kinda how I see this. I guess you have to use a scoundrel to catch a scoundrel.
I think I smell a lawsuit and maybe a payoff for this husband. Then he and the wife can kiss and make up.
i am sure it is very hard to forgive infidelity... especially when the wife is the cheater... they may stay together, but he may never forgive her... i believe this is why the Lord allows divorce in the case of infidelity...
So you think its a set up? That she did it on purpose? Why in the world would she do such a thing?
Later
That goes for any job anywhere now-a-days. When I was in management, before I retired, a male manager (or any man) never took a female employee to his office without another female present. If that wasn't possible, you never closed the door and made sure other people were in the vicinity as witnesses. We lost a lot of good male managers to bogus sexual harassment charges due to not following that simple rule. We never had the reverse problem of men trying to charge female managers with anything but I suppose it happens.
And why would it be worth losing her job and her marriage to set him up? There is no indication that she tried to blackmail the congressman, and if she did blackmail him that is a felony.
He should resign.
I forgive him as a Christian, but I don’t think he has the moral strength to be a good representative in D.C. If Rep. McAllister had any integrity and wasn’t just using his faith as a political ploy, he’d resign. He claimed to be a moral person, and his “faith” played a big part in his election. He doesn’t deserve the office he obtained through false pretenses.
There may be more to the story.
All I am saying is rage it may have been a set up.
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