"Most Ethical Congress" Marches On!

Rules? We don't need no stinking rules!"

“This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history”

– Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), November 16, 2006

Nancy's "Most Ethical Congress" Marches On! Down in Florida, the The Palm Beach Post reports:

Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney has a homestead exemption on a house in Palm Beach Gardens and describes it as his primary residence. But the address on Mahoney's voter registration is a barn with a small apartment that he owns in the rural Caloosa area west of Palm Beach Gardens. The barn is in the 16th Congressional District that Mahoney represents; the homesteaded house is just outside Mahoney's district.

Remember what your Mom always told you?

Close that door! Were you raised in a barn?

You shoulda said,

"No, Ma! I'm only listing it as my residence for political purposes!"

"It's embarrassing for Tim Mahoney to not live in his own district and then use a barn in the 16th District as his voting address," Rooney (Mahoney's Republican challenger) campaign spokesman Jeff Ostermayer said. "It's shameful that a member of the Financial Services Committee isn't registered to vote where he takes his homestead exemption."

Mahoney is the second local congressman to come under fire over his residency in recent months. In July, Democratic U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler was criticized for owning a house in Maryland while declaring Florida residency at his in-laws' house west of Delray Beach. While maintaining he did nothing wrong, Wexler rented an apartment west of Boca Raton to quell the uproar.

There is no scandal so grievous that a Democrat will not respond to in a timely fashion...after they're caught!

BTW, in case our Resident Partisan Scold is listening:

Apparently, Rep. Mahoney is caught up in his own sex scandal:

The discrepancies in where Mahoney claims his primary residence and the address listed on his voter I.D. card (a barn) are supposedly due to the fact that Mahoney and his wife no longer share the same address.

Apparently, Tim Mahoney, through one of his consultants, has paid a former staffer, Trish Allen, $250,000 in hush money to keep a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Mrs. Allen against Congressman Mahoney from the public view.

Sex, lies and...where's the video tape?


Hat tip Gateway Pundit
Cross posted at Say Anything