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Florida Senator Admits to Affairs

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ABC has an interview in which Florida Democratic Senator Tim Mahoney comes clean about the truth of his extra-marital affairs and his attempts to cover them up. While his honesty and self-reproach appeals to the, “I’m only human, I make mistakes” defense, his admission surely dissolves the family values platform on which he ran during his campaign. He absolves himself from violating campaign finance laws to pay off Patricia Allen answering. : [I] couldn’t have, because they [the $120,000 total] came out of my personal bank account.” This cuts him a little slack as far as impeachment is concerned, but ultimately we will have to wait to see just how betrayed his constituents feel or how “fair” they really are.

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