Scandal ridden pol

Tim Mahoney is the "Democrat" who barely scraped by with a victory over the stand-in for Mark Foley following his disgraced exit from Congress two years ago. The Herald-Tribune has the story about how the DCCC bailed on the true Democrat during the primaries to support this former Republican, based largely on the fact of his tremendous wealth. If you're not already aware, Mahoney is now under investigation for using campaign funds as hush money for his mistress.

When you play with dirtbags, you get dirty.

And now, the Democrats will be handing this seat back to the Republicans.

Good job, Rahm.

Update: As soon as I posted this, I looked over to the sidebar and I see that Josh has a post up on Mahoney, who apparently in response to a question about how many affairs he has had, responded "You're asking me over a lifetime? I'm just saying I've been unfaithful and I'm sorry for that."

Please drop out of the race now. The party cannot hesitate to toss this guy out in the street. Show more backbone than we have with Lieberman. Please.