Congressman Comes Clean on Love Child

[sabra]

Source: ABC News


N.Y. Representative Arrested Last Week in Possible DWI Admits to Out-of-Wedlock Child

A congressman from New York has admitted to fathering a child in an extramarital affair three years ago.

Under mounting scrutiny, Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella, who has three children with his wife, released a statement this morning naming the child's mother and confirming the existence of their 3-year-old daughter.

"I have had a relationship with Laura Fay, with whom I have a 3-year-old daughter," Fossella, 43, he said in the statement.

Fossella, a conservative Republican, acknowledged that "imperfections" in his personal life have "caused pain to the people I love." He declined to address his political future -- a decision he said was "furthest" from his mind.

"Over the coming weeks and months, I will to continue to do my job and I will work hard to heal the deep wounds I have caused," he said in the statement.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4812437&page=1

[livetohike]

1. The party of "family values" strikes again n/t

[Edith Ann]

27. Family Values

This business of hurting the one's I love is becoming a right wing conservative mantra for "Oh damn I got caught!"

[heliarc]

29. This one has the family values of an FLDS member. nt

[NightWatcher]

2. why did I know this was a repub before I clicked the link?

family values, hell, he's got two families that he values now

[Warpy]

3. Right, just another hypocritical serial polygamist

and what do you want to bet that another one is stashed someplace now that the girlfriend has gotten a bigger butt and saggier breasts from childbirth?

I sincerely hope this sanctimonious twit is dumped this year in favor of a Democrat, any Democrat.

At least when Democrats sin, that's all there is. They don't have a long period of lecturing everybody else and making them feel bad for the same thing.

[Submariner]

4. Must be some sort of a neocon virus

[xchrom]

5. love child?!?! -- does anybody really still say that? nt

[TomInTib]

8. Hey, it's ABC, whaddya expect?

"Illegitimate child" always pissed me off.

[xchrom]

12. i always thought child was descriptive enough. nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. If he was a Democrat they'd call the child a bastard,

[ToughLuck]

6. Values really can get in the way of having sex outside of marriage..sheesh

Republicans..the party of bullshit.

[BrklynLib at work]

7. I worked for Frank Barbaro in 2004, trying to defeat this Repuke hypocrite...

"Repuke hypocrite"..talk about redundant!

[kay1864]

9. WRONG headline, ABC, should be:

"Latest Republican Sex Scandal (Again) Threatens to Lose the GOP a Seat in Congress"

[Ian David]

10. Laura Fay? THIS Laura Fay?

Laura Fay Lewis is a Filmmaker, Singer, Musician, and an Actress. A multi-media artist from, Coral Gables, Florida. She attended Juilliard as a Theatre Major. Over the years, she has performed in classical and modern theatre, opera, jazz, musical theatre, and modern dance as well. She also is an award nominated Actress and Filmmaker, a Screenwriter, Songwriter, Poet, and Painter. Laura Fay is the founding member and creator of the rock band The Blisstones where she is Lead Singer, Songwriter, and Rhythm Guitarist. She is an avid devotee of Krisna Consciousness, Dance, Yoga, Biking, Hiking, and Beachcombing.....

http://www.myspace.com/laurafay

[Bozita]

14. There are two of 'em. That's the wrong one.

We're looking for the one that's blonde and about 40 years old.

[Ian David]

15. Blond... 40 years old... easy... not on the pill. Got it. n/t

[Bozita]

16. A photo of her was in the NY Daily News early this week.

Attached to the Vito story.

[kay1864]

17. Found pictures!

Here's Laura Fay:




And here's the now-very-embarrassed Mary Pat Fossella, shown at her husband's press conference last Friday:

[Ian David]

30. That's the best the NY Post can do? A picture with a tree in the way?

She's not Princess fucking Diana.

How hard is it to get a good photo of some schlump?

[mikeytherat]

11. NO headline should ever start: "Congressman Comes Clean"

and finish with "On Love Child."

That's a 9.8 on the "ick" meter.

mikey_the_rat

[Orsino]

13. I *knew* there were too many Democratic scandals in the news.

C'mon, Republicans. Yes, you can!

[QC]

18. Love child?

Haven't heard that term in a while!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DYcHysNsQ

[Virginia Dare]

21. 1968, when Miss Diana & The Supremes had a hit with it...n/t

[gratuitous]

20. When a Republican does it, it's an "imperfection"

When someone else does it, it's something that has to be legislated against with the full force of the law and the government to regulate, discriminate and eradicate.

I wonder why that is?

[struggle4progress]

22. What Say You, Joe Mondello? - Rep. Fossella Admits to Affair and Child After DUI

Let's remind State GOP Chairman Joe Mondello what he said about the Spitzer-Call Girl revelations:

March 10th "This is a sad day for Governor Spitzer and his family as well as for the citizens of our state. It is hard to see how Governor Spitzer can hope to govern effectively while the political, governmental and legal consequences of his behavior swirl about him.”

http://nassaugopwatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-say-you...

[Bozita]

25. That quote should have good ol' Vito packing his bags.

From one or more of his nests.

[struggle4progress]

23. The Last Republican?

... With his judgment perhaps clouded by the wine that (according to the police document) had stained his lips, Fossella called a “friend” to pick him up following his arrest. Now it turns out ... the married politician is the father of her three-year-old daughter ...

The lone Republican in the city’s congressional delegation (and member of a rapidly shrinking state GOP contingent that suffered heavy losses in the ‘06 elections) Fossella was already facing two likely Democratic challengers: term limited Brooklyn City Councilmember Dominic Recchia and Steven Harrison, a lawyer who managed to garner 43 percent of the vote when he mounted a seemingly quixotic challenge to Fossella in 2006.

.. Fossella could be gone before voters go to the polls ... House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio said, “I think Mr. Fossella is going to have some decisions to make over the weekend.”

... The Daily Politics reports that the national GOP will begin polling to see how State Island District Attorney Dan Donovan and State Senator Andrew Lanza might fare in a congressional race ...

http://www.gothamgazette.com/blogs/wonkster/2008/05/08/...

[struggle4progress]

24. Embattled Rep. Fossella Speaks With House Chaplain

... In a statement today, Fossella went so far as to name the woman with whom he has had an affair for several years. Her name is Laura Fay, a retired Air Force Lt. Col. who, as Fossella now admits, is the mother of their 3-year-old daughter.

Fossella's "love child" was exposed in his drunken-driving charge because Fay is the person who fetched Fossella from an Alexandria, Va., police station after he was charged with driving while intoxicated in the wee hours of the morning last Thursday.

Their relationship is problematic politically for Fossella, not just because of the infidelity factor, but because he and Fay traveled abroad together at taxpayers' expense when Fay was working as a military liaison to the House arranging and traveling on congressional delegations trips abroad.

The New York Daily News reports that Fay and Fossella disappeared for hours at a time during a CODEL to Europe in 2003 led by then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) ...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/05/embattled...

[lark]

26. Excellent

There's no way the scum can survive when he used taxpayer money this way. He's definitely gone! Wonder if this will spur lackadaisacal Nancy to file an ethics charge?

[xyouth]

28. Did Fox call him a Dem. Rep yet?

[JI7]

31. shouldn't this asshole resign ?

[Zorra]

32. "Fossella, a conservative Republican..." fits the stereotype perfectly. n't

[rdenney]

33. Whats a "possible DWI" ? Suspicion of DWI, yes, not "possible DWI". So much for the MSM. n/t