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Two years ago, ABC’s Brian Ross broke wide open the scandal of Republican Rep. Mark Foley sending sexual Internet messages to Congressional pages. Foley resigned quickly, but that didn’t dampen the story. We reported "On the ABC, CBS, and NBC morning and evening news programs, from the story’s emergence on Friday night, September 29, through Wednesday morning, October 11, the Big Three networks have aired 152 stories." On October 11's Good Morning America, news anchor Christopher Cuomo spoke insistently: "Less than a month before the elections and the Mark Foley scandal just keeps growing." Reporter Jake Tapper added: "This is...

Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, embroiled in an adultery scandal and a tight race for re-election, admitted Friday to having at least two affairs but insisted he broke no laws and will not resign. The first-term Democrat conceded that one of the affairs began as he was running on a family values platform to replace Mark Foley, a Republican who resigned amid revelations that he sent lurid Internet messages to male pages who had worked on Capitol Hill as teenagers. Mahoney, 52, apologized to his wife, his daughter and his constituents, even as he...

The Palm Beach Post rescinded its endorsement today of Rep. Tim Mahoney and called for him to withdraw from the election. The newspaper's switch marks the first major Mahoney backer to publicly call on him to leave the race. "It is rare that a newspaper rescinds an endorsement, but in the race for District 16, The Post no longer can support U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney," the editorial stated. The nearly unprecedented move comes after ABC News revealed this week that Mahoney had secretly paid a former mistress and campaign staffer, Patricia Allen, $121,000 to prevent a sexual harassment lawsuit as...

What Did Rahm Talk to Tim Mahoney About? Emanuel 'Confronted' Him Days Before He Fired His Girlfriend Posted by: Brian Faughnan Friday, October 17, 2008 at 02:18PM CDT 1 Comment When Tim Mahoney (D-FL) announced his bid for Congress in 2006, he had little reason to expect he would win. He was running against a popular incumbent in a safe seat. When Mark Foley self-destructed he wound up a surprise winner, and it was only a few months before the former businessman publicly complained about not liking his job, even though (we now know) he had a girlfriend on his...

Congressman Tim Mahoney's reelection efforts have been "destroyed" by his recently revealed sex scandal, according to the latest polling information on the race for Florida's 16th District.

Current and former aides for Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL) say he was carrying on an affair with a county official from Florida at the same time he lobbied to help her county receive a $3.4 million federal grant. One former top campaign aide says Mahoney acknowledged the woman had spent the week at his Washington apartment but shrugged off warnings such behavior could cause him political trouble. The aides said the woman was also seen with Mahoney at restaurants and at his Washington DC apartment late at night.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney is alleged to have had a second affair. Mahoney, a 16th district Florida Congressman representing the Palm Beach area is accused by an aid of having a separate affair with a Martin County woman. Mahoney won his seat in 2006 while promising to return morals and family values to Washington. This was in the aftermath of the resignation of U.S. Rep. Mark Foley. ....

Could Mahoney scandel grow? GOP expanding criticism to other DemsBy GEORGE BENNETT Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Republicans are hoping the Tim Mahoney sex scandal creates the same kind of far-reaching toxic plume for Democrats that poisoned GOP candidates across the nation in 2006 after Mark Foley's downfall. **SNIP** "This is a gravely serious matter, and to date, the collective response from Speaker Pelosi, Congressman Emanuel, Congressman Van Hollen, and Congressman Mahoney has been entirely inadequate," said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, who in 2006 faced similar claims that he knew of Foley's behavior with...

Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.) on Tuesday called the sex scandal allegations against him “false” and said that the alleged hush money he paid his former mistress is a “private matter.” In a statement delivered in his district with his wife, Terry, by his side, Mahoney said he takes “full responsibility” for his actions and the pain he has caused his family. He offered vague statements about an arrangement that, as ABC News reported, he had with former aide Patricia Allen, which allegedly included more than $120,000 and a job to ward off a threatened lawsuit after Mahoney apparently fired Allen....

Mahoney defends his record, apologizes for embarrassing family By GEORGE BENNETT and JOHN LANTIGUA Palm Beach Post Staff Writers Tuesday, October 14, 2008 PALM BEACH GARDENS — U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney appeared in front of a room full of local reporters this morning to address the allegations that he paid $121,000 this year to prevent a lawsuit by a former female campaign worker with whom he reportedly had an affair. Flanked by his wife, he read a brief statement apologizing for the embarrassment this has caused his family, but emphatically stating he has done nothing illegal. "I have not violated...

To paraphrase audio tape of Mahoney to Mistress: You work at my pleasure, if you're not doing your job you get fired.

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...

Fla. congressman Tim Mahoney seeks probe after affair reportsBy Associated Press Monday, October 13, 2008 - Added 48m ago WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Florida Congressman Tim Mahoney has called for an ethics investigation of himself amid reports that he had an affair and then paid the woman to keep quiet. Minutes later Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also called for an investigation. ABC News reported on its Web site Monday that Mahoney agreed to pay $121,000 in March to a former mistress and staffer after being threatened with a sexual harassment lawsuit. The network, citing unnamed sources, says the...

Democrat slimeball Tim Mahoney has made the news over his payoff to his mistress who was on the payroll. We heard the audio of her being fired by him. Well, imagine my surprise when I went to YouTube to hopefully find the audio of the conversation, and I found Tim Mahoney singing "Sexual Healing." Gee, what a coincidence. (Yes, I know, but that's pretty funny.) Perhaps we need to call his office and congratulate him for a nice performance on YouTube. Who knew he could sing? We know his mistress can sing. Washington, D.C. Office: 1541 Longworth House Office Building,...

For the second consecutive election year, West Palm Beach has produced a potentially devastating congressional sex scandal – but this one involves a Democrat. ABC News reported Monday that Rep. Tim Mahoney — the Florida Democrat who replaced disgraced Republican Mark Foley in 2006 — paid $121,000 to a staffer with whom he had an affair. The news gives Republicans a desperately needed new line of attack just three weeks before Election Day. Mahoney, 52, paid former staffer Patricia Allen $61,000 — plus $60,000 in legal fees — after she threatened to sue him for sexual harassment and intimidation, the...

Florida Democrat Congressman Mahoney, Foley Replacement, Pays Mistress $121,000 in alleged bribe money. The Mistress originally sued for $1mil.

The campaign of Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, who’s been under fire for registering to vote at a barn with an apartment rather than at his homesteaded primary residence, called Republican challenger Tom Rooney a hypocrite today upon learning that Rooney was registered to vote for five years at the Palm Beach Kennel Club dog track. While Rooney was in law school and then in the Army in Texas and at West Point from 1998 to 2003, the address on his voter registration was the Kennel Club, which is owned by the Rooney family. “He used his father’s office address...

Now there's news of a sex scandal... Apparently, Rep. Mahoney is caught up in his own sex scandal: The discrepancies in where Mahoney claims his primary residence and the address listed on his voter I.D. card (a barn) are supposedly due to the fact that Mahoney and his wife no longer share the same address. Apparently, Tim Mahoney, through one of his consultants, has paid a former staffer, Trish Allen, $250,000 in hush money to keep a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Mrs. Allen against Congressman Mahoney from the public view. This is the reason for the conflicting addresses. Mrs....

At approximately 11 AM local time, three American Christians were arrested in Tiananmen Square. The three arrested are Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Washington DC based Christian Defense Coalition; Brandi Swindell of Boise Idaho, National Director of Generation Life; and Michael McMonagle, of Philadelphia, national Catholic pro-life activist and founder of Generation Life. The same three Americans were also arrested yesterday while holding a banner and speaking out against China's religious persecution. While in custody Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said, "We were in Tiananmen Square publicly praying for the people of China...

Republicans are having a field day over a flier sent out by U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney that shows an elderly gentleman bedecked with what appear to be Soviet medals. The picture is on the cover of a Mahoney flier labeled: “Honoring Those Who Defend Our Freedom.” The flier touts Mahoney’s record on veterans’ issues. “Is Tim Mahoney’s commitment to our veterans so shallow and superficial that he can’t even tell the difference between an American veteran and one who fought for Communism in Joseph Stalin’s Red Army?? said Ken Spain, press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee.