People Who Live In Glass Houses

In 2006 one of the Democratic golden boys was Tim Mahoney, who took over the normally-Republican House seat of disgraced Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL). Foley had been forced to resign from Congress over a sex scandal involving House pages.

At the time, Mahoney ran ads talking about his own personal morals and his commitment to ‘family values’.

Well it turns out that Mahoney was, at the time of the 2006 race, having his own indiscretions in the form of an affair with a woman he met on the campaign trail. He has since admitted to not only this incident but what he calls ‘multiple affairs’.

Recent polls by his own campaign show him going from a 7 point lead to a 26 point deficit, so it seems this will be one of the few GOP bright spots.

Though one wonders what it is with that particular House district to produce 2 sex scandals in a row…