The New York Times reports on Democratic representative Tim Mahoney, who’s Congressional career seems likely to come to an abrupt end after revelations of an affair. He sounds like a wonderful guy:
The affair began in 2006, when Mr. Mahoney was running for Congress, Democratic staff members said. Mr. Mahoney first met Ms. Allen at a campaign stop and later arranged for her to volunteer for the campaign, the Congressional aides said. Friends of Ms. Allen told ABC that she had sought to break off the affair when she learned that Mr. Mahoney was involved in other extramarital relationships… “You work at my pleasure,” Mr. Mahoney told Ms. Allen in a Jan. 20 telephone call that was recorded and played for Mr. Mahoney’s employees. “If you do the job that I think you should do, you get to keep your job. Whenever I don’t feel like you’re doing your job, then you lose your job. And guess what: The only person that matters is guess who? Me.”
Mahoney allegedly fired an employee after she dumped him. He then told her that the only test of whether firing is merited is whether he feels she was doing her job. What did her job entail? And how many other staffers did Mahoney employ to do it?
