"Most Ethical Congress Ever"

In 2006 Democrat businessman Tim Mahoney denounced his opponent, Rep. Mark Foley, for his role in the rather sordid House Page scandal. Mahoney forced Foley to resign and quit the campaign and then his lawyers prevented the Republicans from placing the replacement candidate's (state Rep. Joe Negron) name on the November ballot. Given all this, Mahoney eked out a narrow win in a Democratic year. http://projects.washingtonpost.com/elections/keyraces/676/

Whatever his flaws, one would have thought Mahoney would be mildly moral given his path to office. Nope. Not even close.

Congressman's $121,000 Payoff to Alleged Mistress

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5997043&page=1

Guess this was all a public investment in "a world that is safer, more moral."

Worse still for the Democrats is one of their top leaders, Rahm Emanuel, is alleged to have known about this disgraceful conduct and to have counseled Mahoney on how to avoid political fallout. Of course, Emanuel recruited Mahoney in 2006 at a time when Foley looked like a shoo in, which leads one to surmise Emanuel knew about Foley's misdeeds before they went public, too, and now is merely trying to protect his political investment. 

Evidently, as per Wikipedia Mahoney has been holding himself out as a potential opponent to Senator Mel Martinez  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2010#Mel_Martinez_of_Florida

Another possible challenger is Rep. Tim Mahoney (FL-16), who defeated Mark Foley in 2006 after revelations about inappropriate relations between Foley and his staff surfaced. If he is reelected in 2008, he will have proven his ability to win in a Republican-leaning congressional district, which potentially could make him a strong candidate in a statewide run.

Perhaps Mahoney should pursue his statewide ambitions, as he can follow in the footsteps of two prominent Democrats in this part of the country who paid for sexual pleasure --Eliot Spitzer and Jim McGreevey 

I await with baited breath the pleas from Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Party Chairman Dean and Florida Democrat Senator Nelson for this sleazeball to resign from the House and quit his embarassing re-election campaign.

We forced Foley to quit. Evidently the "most ethical congress in history" doesn;t feel the need to take similar action.

We should take some action , though This should be a Republican seat, as it includes such places as Hobe Sound and Port Charlotte  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida's_16th_congressional_district and we have a good candidate http://www.tomrooney.com/ already running.

We ought to hang this one on the Democrats. They talk the talk, lets make this guy walk