Speaking of affairs, let us not forget Vito Fossella, Reich-wing hack

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WHO had an affair that produced a child. It amazes me how quickly the Reich wing forgets these 'incidents', and focuses on our peccadillos, as if it's OK for them and taboo for US.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/nyregion/09fossella.html

Fossella Admits He Had an Extramarital Affair
Representative Vito J. Fossella, the Staten Island Republican who was arrested on drunken-driving charges in Virginia last week, acknowledged on Thursday that he had fathered a daughter, now 3, in an extramarital affair. But he declined to address questions about his political future.

Mr. Fossella, who has three children with his wife on Staten Island, issued a terse statement that said nothing about the events leading to his arrest, which occurred hours after he attended a White House reception celebrating the New York Giants’ victory in the Super Bowl. “My personal failings and imperfections have caused enormous pain to the people I love,” he said in the statement, “and I am truly sorry.”

The five-term congressman identified the woman with whom he had the affair as Laura Fay. She is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel whom he apparently called after he was taken into custody early May 1, saying he was on the way to pick up his sick child. The police said his blood-alcohol level at the time was more than double the legal limit, and he faces a mandatory five days in jail if he is convicted.

Mr. Fossella, the only Republican in the city’s Congressional delegation, said in the statement that “there will be many questions, including those about my political future.” But he said that “making any political decisions right now” was the “furthest from my mind.”

Republican officials and strategists who would not speak publicly said their preference was for Mr. Fossella to drop his bid for re-election and serve out his current term, which ends in January. That would avoid a special election in potentially difficult political territory, something the Republicans are eager to do after losing two long-held Republican seats in recent special elections elsewhere.