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From the frying pan and into the fire goes Florida Democrat Tim Mahoney. Remember the FLAP.

Now, there is a story circulating around the internets that the Florida Congressman was involved with a second woman who was not his wife.

A married congressman who faces accusations that he had an affair with a former aide and paid her to keep quiet about it also was having an affair with a second woman around the same time, a person close to his campaign told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Details of the second affair came hours after Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney held a news conference to address a story, first reported by ABC News, that he had been involved with the former aide. Mahoney acknowledged he had caused “embarrassment and heartache” to his family but denied doing anything illegal.

Mahoney, 52, won his seat in 2006 while promising to return morals and family values to Washington in the aftermath of the resignation of former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley. Foley stepped down when it was revealed he sent lurid Internet messages to male teenage pages who had worked on Capitol Hill. Foley was later cleared of criminal wrongdoing by state and federal authorities.

Mahoney’s seat was already considered to be one of the more competitive House races, and he has been facing a tough challenge in a district that traditionally leans slightly Republican. He faces former Army officer Tom Rooney, a lawyer whose family owns the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Key Mahoney graph or should Flap say KEY GAFFE from yesterday’s news conference:

“I have not violated my oath of office, nor have I violated any laws,” Mahoney said in the statement.

Plus, ABC News is reporting that the FBI is opening a preliminary investigation into the entire mess.

It would be safe to predict that Republican Tom Rooney will be the next Congressman from Florida’s 16th Congressional District.

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• Canada votes, expected to re-elect Conservatives | U.S. | Reuters
  Canadians voted on Tuesday in an election likely to give a renewed mandate to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the first Western leader to face the electorate since the financial market meltdown.

  Since the financial crisis erupted, the focus of the 37-day campaign has narrowed to who would be the best manager in increasingly troubled economic times.

  (tags: stephenharper canada)
• Hot Air » Video: Kathleen Parker on Colbert
  Until Kathleen Parker wrote her critique of Sarah Palin I had never read one piece or knew who the frak she was.
  Glad I did not waste my time before.
  (tags: kathleen_parker sarah_palin)
• Palin vindicated?: ADN Editorial | adn.com
  Gov. Palin does have a defense. She could have said:

  "I'm gratified that the report confirmed what I said all along, that I had the authority to terminate Walt Monegan as public safety commissioner.

  "I absolutely disagree that I violated state ethics law. In repeatedly complaining about trooper Mike Wooten, Todd and I were not pursuing a personal vendetta. We were trying to protect the integrity of the Alaska State Troopers from having an arrogant, almost-out-of-control law-breaker in their ranks. Because the action we were seeking was in the public interest, not purely our personal interest, there is no ethics law violation."
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  Isn't this what can be inferred from her comments?

  (tags: sarah_palin)
• Wright 101 by Stanley Kurtz on National Review Online
  It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.
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  No surprise here…..
  (tags: barack_obama william_ayers jeremiah_wright)
• ADA House to consider CDHC resolution
  The development of the Community Dental Health Coordinator has been in the works since 2006, with pilot training programs set to start early next year. The House of Delegates will consider a resolution to provide long-term financial support for the program.
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  How many more ADA member dentist will the ADA encourage to leave the membership roles. What a ridiculous expenditure of money.
  (tags: ADA American_Dental_Association dentistry)
• Christopher Buckley quits National Review over Obama endorsement
  Here’s Lowry’s reply at the Corner. Steyn will be back on the back page in the next issue, so there’s a silver lining.
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  Who the frak cares?

  Who is Christopher Buckley anyway?

  (tags: nationalreview christopher_buckley)
• Michelle Malkin » Report: Credit card fraud for Obama
  Dead people. Fake people. Cartoon characters.

  Now, it looks like Obama supporters are going after unsuspecting credit card fraud victims, too. Better check your Visa and Amex bills twice:

  (tags: barack_obama)
• BOGUS VOTER BOOTED AMID PROBE OF ACORN – New York Post
  Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect.
  (tags: acorn barack_obama)
• McCain to outline tax relief for seniors | Reuters
  Republican presidential nominee John McCain will unveil proposals Tuesday aimed at helping Americans cope with a sharp plunge in the stock market, including tax relief for senior investors.

  The proposals, to be outlined by McCain in Pennsylvania, come as the Arizona senator tries to close a gap with Democrat Barack Obama, who leads in national polls and in several key states with three weeks to go until election day on November 4.

  McCain economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin told Reuters that McCain would outline an estimated $52.5 billion in new proposals.
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  McCain is coming in late to the pander game.

  (tags: mccain bailout economics)
• Obama and Acorn – WSJ.com
  Acorn — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. We've written about them for years, but Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain's campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn's ties to Mr. Obama. It's about time someone exposed this shady outfit that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government.

  Acorn uses various affiliated groups to agitate for "a living wage," for "affordable housing," for "tax justice" and union and environmental goals, as well as against school choice and welfare reform. It was a major contributor to the subprime meltdown by pushing lenders to make home loans on easy terms, conducting "strikes" against banks so they'd lower credit standards.
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  A federal special prosecutor for corrupt practices, criminal conspiracy and massive voter fraud is in order here.

  (tags: ACORN barack_obama)