Tim Mahoney

Shocker: Rep. Tim Mahoney Asks for His Own Ethics Investigation

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On Monday Oct. 13, 2008 Representative Tim Mahoney, D-Florida called for an ethics investigation of himself amid reports that he had an affair and then paid the woman to keep her quiet.

Remember the story from yesterday.

Remember Florida GOP Representative Mark Foley?

Now, his HYPOCRITE Democrat Congressional successor is  embroiled in his own sex scandal albeit a non-homosexual one.

West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress who worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him, according to current and former members of his staff who have been briefed on the settlement, which involved Mahoney and his campaign committee.

Mahoney, who is married, also promised the woman, Patricia Allen, a $50,000 a year job for two years at the agency that handles his campaign advertising, the staffers said.

A Mahoney spokesperson would not answer questions about the alleged affair or the settlement, but said Allen resigned of her own accord and “has not received any special payment from campaign funds.”

Senior Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives, including Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), the chair of the Democratic Caucus, have been working with Mahoney to keep the matter from hurting his re-election campaign, the Mahoney staffers said.

Now, Representative Mahoney has called for HIS OWN ethics investigation.

Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.) requested an ethics investigation of himself yesterday after ABC News reported that he paid hush money to a former mistress who once worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him.

According to ABC News’s Web site, which cited anonymous sources, Mahoney, 52, paid $121,000 to former staffer Patricia Allen and arranged a $50,000-a-year job for her at a Nashville-based public relations agency. Mahoney won the seat in 2006 after GOP Rep. Mark Foley resigned amid reports that he sent sexually themed electronic messages to male former congressional pages.

“While these allegations are based on hearsay, I believe that my constituents need a full accounting,” Mahoney, who is married, said in a statement yesterday that did not address whether the allegations were true. “As such, I have requested the House Ethics Committee to review these allegations. I am confident that when the facts are presented that I will be vindicated.”

Say what?

This MORON cannot remember HIS OWN AFFAIR? Or COVER-UP?

Geraghty ridicules Mahoney.

Florida voters will DO more by voting Mahoney out of office.

Likely GOP pick-up.

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2 Comments

  • Venomous Kate

    Flap, I can’t help thinking that if the guy’s calling for an investigation of himself it’s because he KNOWS he didn’t do what he’s being accused of, just as he knows that the only way to salvage his political career now is to prove that to voters.

    Venomous Kates last blog post..Here’s Your Sign

  • Flap

    The difficulty for Mahoney is the signed settlement agreement that HE initiated to avert a public lawsuit and his promise for later compensation by his political ad agency (which by the way they have revoked) .

    Or, is he now claiming he did not have the affair?