FBI Begins Investigation into Florida Democrat who Replaced Mark Foley

The Democrat who won the Florida seat that was held by disgraced Republican Mark Foley has been caught in his own little sex scandal. Considering that Foley had to resign in his own sex scandal, if you can call mere inappropriate emails and text messages a sex scandal, this is just too ironic.

Tim Mahoney “allegedly” paid a mistress of his over $120,000 to keep her from going public, and there are rumors of a second affair. Mark Foley’s seat was not considered in play in 2006 until the scandal broke, and then the calls for his resignation came from both Democrats and Republicans. But when this scandal broke here is what the Democrats said:

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

Suddenly this is a private matter and should not affect the outcome of the election. It’s funny the difference in thinking within the Democrat party depending on which party the perpetrator is in.

Now the FBI is investigating Mahoney, and justice may be served as he is considering not running for re-election.

The FBI has reportedly begun its own preliminary investigation into an ABC News report that West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL) hired an alleged mistress to work on his official staff and then paid her $121,000 to keep her from going public and filing suit after she was fired.

But the whole kicker in this is the following:

According to the Mahoney staffers, his secret agreement with the woman, Patricia Allen, began in 2006 when he was campaigning for office, vowing to remove the “ethical cloud” he said had been left over the district by Republican Mark Foley

This whole affair (pardon the pun) was happening as he was campaigning for Mark Foley’s seat. This whole affair was taking place even as he was vowing to be more ethical than his predecessor. He was saying one thing in public even as he was acting in the opposite manner.

This man is nothing but a hypocrite.