Who Wasn't This Guy Having Sex With?

Now there's a second affair in Tim Mahoney's recent past. And this one has hints of fraud and kickbacks involved as well:

On Tuesday night, a person close to the Mahoney campaign told the AP that Mahoney also was having a relationship with a high-ranking official in Martin County in his Florida district around the same time of the purported affair with Allen.

. . .The person said Mahoney was having the relationship with the official in 2007 while he also was lobbying the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a $3.4 million reimbursement for Martin County for damage caused by hurricanes in 2004. FEMA approved the money late last year.

Mahoney's congressional staff declined to comment on this alleged tryst, but noted Mahoney lobbies for FEMA funding throughout his district, and that Martin County has received $43 million from FEMA since 2004. Mahoney didn't take office until 2006.

The Hill is reporting that the Democratic Party is pulling all of its resources out of FL-16 in the wake of these scandals. And they very well should. I would remind everyone that Tim Mahoney was a Republican until July 2006, and that he has refused to endorse Sen. Obama for President, nor did he show up to the convention in Denver. The travesty is that they gave him any money in the first place.