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Baucus Nominated Girlfriend for U.S. Attorney
Fox News ^ | November 5, 2009

Posted on 12/05/2009 3:10:00 AM PST by Zakeet

A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says the Montana Democrat was in a romantic relationship with the woman he nominated for U.S. attorney.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus was already involved with his girlfriend and former staffer when he recommended her earlier this year to become the next U.S. attorney for Montana, a spokesman said.

The Montana Democrat and his former state office director Melodee Hanes began their relationship in the summer of 2008, after Baucus separated from his wife, Ty Matsdorf told The Associated Press late Friday.

Baucus nominated Hanes for the U.S. attorney post in Montana in March. But she later withdrew, saying she had been presented with other opportunities she couldn't pass up.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: 111th; abuseofoffice; adultery; baucus; bhodoj; cultureofcorruption; democorrupts; maxbaucus; melodeehanes; officialcorruption; sexscandal
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Max's mistress nominee.

1 posted on 12/05/2009 3:10:01 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Embroidered on panties, underneath: "Tiger Woods Was Here." ;)

2 posted on 12/05/2009 3:11:52 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

He did all this while she was on his staff?


3 posted on 12/05/2009 3:22:53 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

democrats are masters at presenting a nice smiling face while stealing your wallet, freedom & country.


4 posted on 12/05/2009 3:24:09 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
He did all this while she was on his staff?

Yes.

They rod and they staff, they comfort me...

5 posted on 12/05/2009 3:25:14 AM PST by IncPen (SEC PROSECUTE AL GORE FOR TRADE FRAUD - GIVE BACK THE OSCAR! - GIVE BACK THE NOBEL!)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
He did all this while she was on his staff?

I will absolutely, positively be banned -- instantaneously and forever -- if I answer that question the way I want to answer it. ;)

6 posted on 12/05/2009 3:25:28 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: Zakeet
This guy has been in Washington so long he no longer looks like a westerner, he has that pasty, metro-sexual look that took over tom Daschle’s face.

I'm actually surprised that he likes women.

7 posted on 12/05/2009 3:27:28 AM PST by Daryl L.Hunter (Barack Obama is the Grim Reaper)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I will absolutely, positively be banned -- instantaneously and forever -- if I answer that question the way I want to answer it. ;)

Yeah - butI can infer enough to enjoy the pun.

8 posted on 12/05/2009 3:47:29 AM PST by Puddleglum ("due to the record harvest, rationing will continue as usual")
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To: Daryl L.Hunter
I'm actually surprised that he likes women.

That was my first thought, too......

9 posted on 12/05/2009 3:53:07 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; MARTIAL MONK

LOL!!!


10 posted on 12/05/2009 3:57:02 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: Zakeet

The bigger story here, if anyone is brave enough to investigate it, is whether someone within the Obama administration, the DNC, or some other Communist group had attempted to blackmail Baucus over this “tidbit” in order to convince him to get back in line with their Marxist-Socialist agenda...


11 posted on 12/05/2009 3:57:55 AM PST by Zeppo (Save the cheerleader, save the world...)
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To: Zakeet
http://www.helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/article_228bfc07-4dcf-5d8d-9c90-2877b8a8c89f.html

Baucus’ wife arrested for assault

April 21, 2004

The wife of Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus has been charged with assaulting another woman following a Tuesday night dispute over mulch at a Washington, D.C., garden center.

Wanda Baucus, the wife of Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., talks to Washington Metropolitan Police officers in the parking lot of a garden center, Tuesday night in Washington, D.C.

12 posted on 12/05/2009 3:58:15 AM PST by maggief
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Metro Max (From Wiki)

Baucus has come under fire from critics calling him a beltway insider who no longer really lives in Montana and only occasionally comes to visit.[47] Until 1991, Baucus owned a house in Missoula, where he practiced law for three years before running for Congress in 1974. He didn’t own a home again in Montana until February 2002, when he bought half of his mother’s house from the Sieben Ranch Company, the ranch started by Baucus’s great-grandfather in 1897. The ranch company, and Baucus’s mother, still own the other half of the house. Baucus has owned a home in Washington, D.C.’s upscale Georgetown district since 1984. As of November 2007, the Missoulian newspaper reported he owned no other property in Montana.

In April 2009, The Associated Press reported that Baucus and his wife, the former Wanda Minge, are divorcing after 25 years of marriage and have “parted ways amicably and with mutual respect.”[48]. Starting in 2008, Baucus had been carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, who he later nominated to be U.S. Attorney in Montana.[49] Hanes later withdrew her nomination when the conflict of interest became known, though she and Baucus are still involved.

Baucus has one son, Zeno, by his first wife, Ann Geracimos


13 posted on 12/05/2009 4:19:46 AM PST by MindBender26 (Never kick Dems when they're down. Wait 'till they're 1/2 way back up. You get much better leverage!)
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To: Zakeet

Metro Max (From Wiki)

Baucus has come under fire from critics calling him a beltway insider who no longer really lives in Montana and only occasionally comes to visit.[47] Until 1991, Baucus owned a house in Missoula, where he practiced law for three years before running for Congress in 1974. He didn’t own a home again in Montana until February 2002, when he bought half of his mother’s house from the Sieben Ranch Company, the ranch started by Baucus’s great-grandfather in 1897. The ranch company, and Baucus’s mother, still own the other half of the house. Baucus has owned a home in Washington, D.C.’s upscale Georgetown district since 1984. As of November 2007, the Missoulian newspaper reported he owned no other property in Montana.

In April 2009, The Associated Press reported that Baucus and his wife, the former Wanda Minge, are divorcing after 25 years of marriage and have “parted ways amicably and with mutual respect.”[48]. Starting in 2008, Baucus had been carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, who he later nominated to be U.S. Attorney in Montana.[49] Hanes later withdrew her nomination when the conflict of interest became known, though she and Baucus are still involved.

Baucus has one son, Zeno, by his first wife, Ann Geracimos


14 posted on 12/05/2009 4:20:11 AM PST by MindBender26 (Never kick Dems when they're down. Wait 'till they're 1/2 way back up. You get much better leverage!)
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To: maggief

How do you say “dysfunctional” humans? Isn’t there something illegal about these antics? These “public servants” never cease to amaze me.


15 posted on 12/05/2009 4:20:23 AM PST by hal ogen
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To: maggief

The rumor going around Helena and Missoula back then was that Wanda liked her vodka and her Vicodin.


16 posted on 12/05/2009 4:23:11 AM PST by CholeraJoe (I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter.)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

“He did all this while she was on his staff?”

Talk about multitasking! Clinton only managed to talk on the phone.


18 posted on 12/05/2009 4:37:26 AM PST by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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To: Zakeet

The democrats have figured out that to ‘get rid of Red States’ all they have to do is take over the AG office and the Sec’y of State office....gives them the election edge they need.


19 posted on 12/05/2009 4:42:57 AM PST by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: Zakeet

***The Montana Democrat and his former state office director Melodee Hanes began their relationship in the summer of 2008, after Baucus separated from his wife, Ty Matsdorf told The Associated Press late Friday.***

More like his wife found out about the affair in the spring of 2008 and asked for a divorce that was granted in summer of 2008. Lying scumbag.


20 posted on 12/05/2009 4:53:49 AM PST by WildWeasel
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