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Posts Tagged ‘mel martinez’

Guessing Game Results: His Cheating Heart

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Thanks for all your guesses in response to yesterday’s blind item about a southern Republican congressman who has found himself in a bit of trouble. We won’t pass on the correctness or incorrectness of your guesses; we’ll just pass them along, with minimal comment.

Here was one of the better responses:

Oh God, oh God, oh God! Please, please, please let it be Jeff Sessions! And please let his mistress be John Cornyn!

Sorry to disappoint you, dear reader. But it can’t be Jeff Sessions, since he’s a senator rather than a representative. Points for creativity, though!

More guesses, after the jump.

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Florida Senate Staffer Resigns in Shame (Not Hers)

Friday, September 30th, 2005

NelsonontheleftSenate staffer Amanda Schweitzer, 25, of Winter Park, Fla., was arrested last week for “refusing to leave [Shea Field]” after a college football game, yelling at the police and “pushing an officer away belligerently.” Heady stuff (though around here we just call that Friday night). Schweitzer told police that “Her boss, Sen. Bill Nelson, would take care of the cops and that they couldn’t do anything to her.” It’s a gross misuse of authority — literally: Schweitzer worked — she resigned yesterday — for Florida’s other, Republican, senator, Mel Martinez. MORE »