Posted on 03/08/2010 12:27:10 PM PST by llevrok
How do you solve a problem like Maria's personal life?
Maria Cantwell is single, young (by Congressional standards) and, according to the Huffington Post, the sexiest Senator in the land. She's also, if the scurrilous gossip-mongers at The New York Post are to be believed, part of the reason CNBC correspondent and New York Times writer John Harwood's marriage is ending.
Neither Harwood nor Cantwell confirmed the affair rumors to Page Six. But if its "D.C. insiders" are correct -- and really, who would ever question the validity of anonymous sources dishing to a gossip columnist -- then it wouldn't be the first time Cantwell's been linked to a married man.
A casual glance at the Wikipedia page of any male politician usually reveals one section devoted to personal history. Some mention of past girlfriends or a closet where skeletons are buried. But despite a verified instance in which Cantwell was "the other woman," her Wikipedia entry is so clean you could print it out and eat off of it.
So here now, an attempt at documenting the dating history of Washington's junior Senator.
If Cantwell has a type, older, politically savvy men like Dotzauer are it. Ron Dotzauer
Their complicated relationship began in 1985, when Cantwell, then 23-years-old, was the first employee in the 37-year-old Dotzauer's consulting firm. They dated, "had a sexual encounter" a week before he was to get married to another woman (thus confirming her status as "the other" in Dotzauer's divorce papers) and continued their political partnership, with him acting as an adviser in every one of her campaigns. (He was her campaign manager in her successful bid to unseat three-term incumbent Slade Gorton in 2000).
Charley Steiner
The bearded ESPN anchor with the infectious laugh allegedly escorted Cantwell on a few dates in 2002.
Man's gotta be cool if they call him Torch, and he dated Mick Jagger's ex. Robert "The Torch" Toricelli
New Jersey's fieriest (get it?) House Rep dated Bianca Jagger and Laura Ingraham before squiring Cantwell around D.C.
Know how I know? Cuz it says so on his Wikipedia page. (Just not on hers.) It is unclear, however, whether the human torch has ever been denied a bank loan.
Johanson Jim Johanson
Currently a lawyer and, at one time, a candidate for Snohomish County Superior Court, Johanson and Cantwell dated during her first Senate run in 2000. He also succeeded her as state rep when she bumped up to the U.S. House in the early '90s.
Those are the Cantwell relationships I can verify. Please read nothing into that subtle use of italics. Thank you.
It's okay... liberals are too stupid to know the difference.
Well a bunch of real cougars probably could have beaten Washington State’s football team the last few seasons.
Toby!
“30 years ago I would have hit it”
If the dates are accurate then she wasn’t born or you’d be a convicted child molester if you had been caught. :-)
Babs plays for the other team In fact she and her longtime companion recently had a house custom-built for them: no studs in the walls. It’s all tongue-in-groove.
"Squeak! I resemble that remark, she's more like a humpster".
Good Lord - She looks just like Lou Abbot.
“immediately followed that up with the comment “But I’m not a cougar!””
ROFL
Your daughter just has to be the coolest seventeen-year old on the planet!
She’s not 50 something? If not, she’s aged very badly.
She’d have been 22. She was born in 1958.
Isn’t that really a pic of Larry “Bud” Mellman” of the old Letterman Show?
The chick has that Clinton fist.
2 ROUAWHs at best on a 6 ROUAWH scale.
I am good looking and in shape. I am in better shape that most guys under 30. If it weren’t for my allergies, I could be in Hollywood and possibly be the next James Bond.
My, that picture is rather suggestive!
This part of the story says she was born in 1963 or so.
Oops! 1962 or so...
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