Shall we vote on alleged adulterer, hypocrite and anti-gay MN lawmaker Amy Koch’s marriage?

[xchrom]

http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2011/12/20/shall-we-vote-on-alleged-adulterer-hypocrite-and-anti-gay-mn-lawmaker-amy-kochs-marriage/

Why not? The state of Minnesota, like North Carolina, faces a marriage discrimination amendment at the polls in 2012. Minnesota Senate Majority Leader (er, former) Amy Koch (R, no surprise) had no trouble supporting legislation that would bar same-sex couples from civil marriage.

It looks like she was “pulling a Newt” regarding own domestic legal union, as she was taken to the woodshed for 1) allegedly knocking boots with someone other than her husband; and 2) allegedly doing the nasty on an ongoing basis with a subordinate, in this case a male Senate staffer. And the way she was whisked out of her leadership role is the stuff of a TV drama. (Star Trib):

Leaving a meeting at the Minneapolis Club last Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch thought she was bound for a social event in St. Paul.

Instead, sources say, Deputy Senate Majority Leader Geoff Michel hustled her into a nearby meeting room. There, he and three other GOP senators confronted her about an alleged affair with a male Senate staffer who reported to Koch. After a meeting that lasted for hours that night and resumed on Thursday morning, the Republican from Buffalo resigned her leadership post and announced she would not seek re-election.

The next afternoon, Michael Brodkorb, the Senate’s powerful communications chief, was asked by an old junior high school friend who also worked in the Senate to meet at the Moose Country restaurant in Mendota Heights. Once there, Brodkorb was shocked to see Secretary of the Senate Cal Ludeman walk in and tell him he was out of a job and barred from Senate offices.

The fresh account provides new details on what could be the most tumultuous 72 hours in state Senate history. The events snuffed out Koch’s fast legislative rise and leveled a chief aide who had helped lead the Senate’s Republican caucus and served as deputy chair of the state party.

[stevenleser]

1. Evil turns in upon itself. Karma, just desserts, they reap what they sow, etc.

As for me, the appropriate word is, SCHADENFREUDE!

[racaulk]

2. Just as I don't want her voting on our marriages...

...I also don't want to vote on hers. The state of her marriage is between her and her husband and is none of my concern whatsoever.

I know the question was posed largely in jest, but still.

[joeybee12]

3. This is making me feel that German word I can never spelll! knr

[stevenleser]

4. See my #1 !!!!! :-)

[joeybee12]

6. Exactly!!!!

[closeupready]

5. If she can dish it out, she can take it in return.

nt