Amazing 2 Congresspeople commit adultery, one kicks his wife and kids out of the family home, and

[saracat]

sells it, displacing the kids, both divorce their spouses and now have announced their "engagement and this is not a story? Even on DU? Even the Freepers have called Rep.Mary Bono and Rep.Connie Mack on this disgrace.Why doesn't Larry Flynt do an expose of this? I think this should be a big deal.2 congressman wrecking their marriages and screwing one another at taxpayer expense? And they admit it? Mary Bono has acknowledged their adulterous relationship, as has Mack.So this is okay? How is this different, except for being worse ,than other sex scandals? I really do not get this.

[valerief]

1. Did they vote against civil rights for Americans? nt

[saracat]

2. Absolutely!

[Olney Blue]

3. Link?

[saracat]

4. SCripps and AP both have it! Disgusting story Puff piece!

Reps. Connie Mack, Mary Bono plan to tie the knot
washington
By AMIE PARNES
Scripps Howard News Service
Friday, September 07, 2007

Wedding bells will be ringing for Reps. Connie Mack and Mary Bono, Mack's office confirmed.

Mack, 40, popped the question recently to make their coupledom official, according to staffers in his office.

Mack, R-Fla., and Bono, R-Calif., began their in-house romance in 2005, shortly after both announced their marriages were ending.

Bono, 45, is the widow of former Rep. Sonny Bono, R-Calif., who entered Congress after a well-known entertainment career as part of the Sonny and Cher duo. Mack is the son of former Sen. Connie Mack, R-Fla., and the great-grandson of baseball Hall of Famer Connie Mack, the longtime owner/manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.

Both lawmakers are popular Capitol Hill fixtures. Mack was recently named the fifth most beautiful person on Capitol Hill by a Washington newspaper while Bono's office was voted the most beautiful staff.


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[saracat]

5. She was divorced many months after the "realtionship" and mack wasn't divorced till 2006!

"Mack, R-Fla., and Bono, R-Calif., began their in-house romance in 2005, shortly after both announced their marriages were ending."

[izzie]

6. This GOP has new family values. The old ones were so dull

Hard to figure which wife is the wife for which running term any more. Frankly I care little for any of it but for the laugh value. I feel any thing could go on in a marriage if the parties make a deal on it but I do not see this endless saying every one is bad but me, as they do these silly things. That does wear thin. We have so much going for us in Congress and WH. Power, money, and sex. If some can not make a stew with that they have to have some thing wrong with them.

[partylessinOhio]

7. Mary Bono has been almost invisible. No wonder.

:thumbsdown:

Edit to add photo.

When did she get those implants?

U.S. Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA) and her escort Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL)
pose as they arrive as guests at the Palm Springs International
Film Festival gala in Palm Springs, California, in this January 7, 2006
file photo. Bono and Mack announced their engagement, according to
media reports on September 7, 2007.

[Milo_Bloom]

8. So what?

I didn't care about Gary Hart's or Clinton's adulterous relationship, why should anyone suddenly get all riled up over this one?

Seems incredibly hypocritical to do so.

[saracat]

9. I thought Larry Flynt was looking for these sort of people.I think they fit the bill

And if we think Guliani was wrong in trying to throw his wife and kids out of Gracie Mansion and install the mistress this is cut from the same cloth!

[Milo_Bloom]

10. Not even close.

#1) Gracie Mansion is paid for by the taxpayers.

#2) I hold Rudy up to the same standard as Clinton, Hart, Bono, etc.. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR PERSONAL LIFE.

If I want to not vote for Rudy I have a million better reasons than poor handling of a personal life.

The people who reach for this crap are no better than the people who attacked Clinton for his affair(s).

[saracat]

14. Well I thought Clinton was wrong And he deserved to be censured when he was caught. !

[LiberalEsto]

11. Why> Because the rethugs

made such a gigantic hoo-hah over Clinton & Monica that it led to impeachment.

They're a stinking bunch of hypocrites who piously mouthe family values while crapping all over their own families. For example, Rudy Giuliani moving his mistress into Gracie Mansion while his wife and kids still lived there. Or Newt Gingrich telling his wife he was divorcing her as she lay sick with cancer in a hospital.

If a politician can't be trusted by his own wife and children, I don't see why anyone else should trust them.

[Milo_Bloom]

12. Everyone is a hypocrite it seems.

The democrats all complained when the rethugs freaked out over Clinton's affair, but suddenly when the shoe is on the other foot, people want to freak out over similar behavior.

Either you are for attacking people for their personal lives or you are not. You can't have it both ways.

[LiberalEsto]

13. At least Clinton wasn't spouting "family values"

and condemning others for their private lives.

These Repugs pretend to be oh-so-holy, and yet they condemn gay people, women who have abortions, and so on.