Posted on 10/17/2008 5:53:28 PM PDT by neverdem
Associated Press
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, embroiled in an adultery scandal and a tight race for re-election, admitted Friday to having at least two affairs but insisted he broke no laws and will not resign. The first-term Democrat conceded that one of the affairs began as he was running on a family values platform to replace Mark Foley, a Republican who resigned amid revelations that he sent lurid Internet messages to male pages who had worked on Capitol Hill as teenagers.
Mahoney, 52, apologized to his wife, his daughter and his constituents, even as he maintained he hadn't been hypocritical.
"I can understand why people would feel that way and for those people, all I can say is, 'I'm sorry I let you down,'" Mahoney said in his first set of interviews since news broke this week that he had a sexual relationship with Patricia Allen, 50, whom he met while campaigning in 2006.
Allen went to work for Mahoney's congressional office, then his campaign. Mahoney said she was fired for performance issues, not because of the affair.
Allen threatened to sue Mahoney for sexual harassment, and they reached a settlement to avoid a public airing. Her payout came from Mahoney's personal accounts, not from campaign funds or federal dollars, he said.
Allen has not returned repeated telephone calls.
Mahoney also acknowledged he had an affair with a high-ranking Martin County official in his district around the time he was lobbying the Federal Emergency Management Agency to give the county a $3.4 million hurricane clean-up reimbursement. The funds were awarded last year.
He insisted, however, that he did nothing more for Martin County than he did for others in his district.
Mahoney confessed to "multiple" other affairs, though he wouldn't say how many...
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Somehow most of the people I know personally are far less disgusting than this guy, as human as they may be.
The man confessed to “multiple” other affairs but won’t stand down. Simply stunning. Foley was hammered for e-mailing a few interns. The democrats played that scandal up for weeks and labeled him part of the republican “culture of corruption” in Washington.
His defense is that he’s an amoral Democrat, and therefore can’t be held to any standard.
Mahoney will lose his seat.
He will probably die of syphillus, nasty little peabrain
I wonder which of his standards she didn't satisfy.
Cordially,
Ok maybe Liberman. But are there really seven more after that?
“Rep. Mahoney admits affairs, says he broke no laws”
Some how I think there is a law about that, something in say, maybe the top 10.
And I would have a real hard time if my husband came home and said well I didn’t break any laws.
So does he have a checklist that he grades his latest squeeze on after she services him?
Does this mean he's lost count?
Looks like it.
Did he ever have time to have sex with his wife?
Notice anything missing beside of his name...that wouldn't have been missing had he been something else...
neither did the stupid pubbie break laws.
but he resigned.
i’m so tired of the evil party and the stupid party.
Mahoney admits to Affairs
AP | 17 October 2008
Posted on 10/17/2008 2:37:47 PM PDT by jbwbubba
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108352/posts
Mark Foley did nothing illegal...and where is he...
The Republicans need to make this load of excrement THE poster child for the DEMOCRAT party.
True! He screwed em all.
He doesn’t even know how many more women might come out!
Un-freaking-believable.
If this guy is re-elected the Republic is lost.
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