Gossip out of NC: McCarthy dropped out because of ongoing affair w/Renee Ellmers (R-NC)

[blm]

Any DC folks hearing the same?


We first heard of it during 2014 election cycle. Some were saying then how extra chummy the two looked when together…..uh….campaigning.

Let's hear it for the 'sanctity of marriage' Republicans.

[seaotter]

1. Here:

http://gotnews.com/breaking-exclusive-dc-sources-rep-kevin-mccarthy-rep-renee-ellmers-affair/

[leftynyc]

21. That guy whose website that comes

from is one of the sleaziest examples of pond scum in human form around today. He's busy suing Gawker and because he no idea what he's doing the CA SLAPP laws are going to be his complete undoing. Couldn't happen to a nicer worm. He may be right about McCarthy but I'd wait for a more reliable source.

[seaotter]

22. Sometimes it takes scum to know scum.

[leftynyc]

33. True nuff

He also likes to dox rape victims because apparently they're all liars. When I say pond scum, I mean the scum that pond scum collects. He's awful.

[MADem]

53. He's also a blatant thief--he steals from other websites and repackages stuff as his own.

Pondscum, though, is too polite a term!!

[leftynyc]

60. Gawker is going to bury him

He'll probably even be liable for their attorney fees when they're done with him. Twitter banned him permanently for posting personal information about others. He truly is disgusting.

[Justice]

2. If you google McCarthy Elmer affair you get lots of stories about it on right wing websites

Here is one from 9/25/15

http://gotnews.com/breaking-exclusive-dc-sources-rep-kevin-mccarthy-rep-renee-ellmers-affair/

"The affair is something of an open secret in Washington, D.C. Reporters at other publications, lobbyists, congressional staffers of both parties all know about it."

[blm]

5. Many 'reporters' know but won't write about it, eh? IOKIYAR!!!!

.

[jberryhill]

3. The lovely couple

[blm]

16. Spread that photo on Facebook -

Typical "Sanctity of Marriage" Republicans.

[joeybee12]

29. They look like brother and sister...

Which makes the rumors even creepier

[Punkingal]

30. They look like siblings....

Seriously, they look alike.

[blm]

40. eeewwwwwww…….GOP has Duggaritis

.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

58. Wow, beat me to it. They do.

That's quite bizarre.

[bullwinkle428]

4. Irony alert : Renee Elmers defeated Clay Aiken in that district in 2014. I have no doubt

she was making "sanctity of marriage" arguments as part of her campaign strategy!!

[blm]

6. YEP!!!

.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. From her campaign website's 'Smug Hypocritical Positions' section:

"If other candidates disagree with Renee Ellmers on her policy stances, we welcome an honest discussion about the issues that matter to our constituents, but the people of the 2nd district of North Carolina deserve to be provided with accurate information.
Marriage Protection Amendment

Congresswoman Ellmers believes marriage should be between one man and one woman. She has never opposed a Marriage Protection Amendment. During the 112th Congress, she cosponsored H.Con.Res.25 (Hartzler, R-MO), in which expressed the Department of Justice (DOJ) should discontinue defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and demanded the DOJ defend DOMA in all instances."
http://www.reneeforcongress.com/truth/

Her anti choice materials are delivered from an even higher horse....

[Yavin4]

28. Being Gay is immoral. Getting some some on the side is perfectly okay.

Got it.

[blm]

56. It's the Republican Way.

.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

7. Rachel hinted at that last night.

Seems one of the more conservative/rabid GOPers Jones, a supporter of another conservative for Speaker, put out a letter alluding to something along those lines. Looks like the letter did the trick.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/256202-gop-lawmaker-warns-leadership-candidates-of-skeletons-in-their

[blm]

15. Jones (R-NC) would have known about the affair - many here have

whispered about it for some time.

[MADem]

43. It has been an open secret for five years.

And now, the end result is that Speaker Boehner will not be replaced by "Speaker Boner."

Can't play that FAMILY VALUES card unless ya walk the walk. If you're going to act the rogue, you need to run as the rogue; the sinner, the "hard dog to keep on the porch," not the finger wagger!

[procon]

8. This is the perfect epitaph to end his brief political career. nt

[MoonRiver]

17. And maybe his marriage!

[MADem]

49. I don't know if the "It Wasn't ME" defense will work with him!!

[hifiguy]

26. Cue "Taps", bugler.

[geek tragedy]

9. she's voting against McCarthy because "I'm apparently not high on his priority list." nt

[emulatorloo]

13. Sounds like it was a bad break-up.

[blm]

24. It is kinda dripping with the sound of 'adulteress scorned'

.

[nitpicker]

10. Did McCarthy deliberately put his foot in mouth re the Benghazi committee?

To allow people to point at that as the reason for not supporting him?

[KamaAina]

11. Just walk away, Renee...

[redwitch]

14. Thank you for the lovely earworm!

[Eleanors38]

18. And from a group called the Left Bank. She'd probaby like half the title.

[TacoD]

27. Lol (nt)

[DFW]

31. That wasn't a typo. They really spell it "Banke"

They reformed a few years ago, and I saw them in Philadelphia. At least three of the original members were still there, and they still had it. They even had a string trio (two violins and a cello) on stage with them. I never thought that after nearly 50 years I'd ever see them live, but there they were, and they really blew me away.

[Eleanors38]

37. A lot of the old Geezer rock groups hold up well. PBS has done oldie-goldie

shows from time-to-time, and they deliver! The Zombie still hammer it.

[CTyankee]

25. what becomes of the brokenhearted?

[Stuart G]

19. Good steamy stuff...keep it going..

next movie please, or is it just a long intermission..????


..

[Eleanors38]

20. "Sanctified marriage?" Who could resist gettin' in on that? The Big O AND Confession, all in one!

[hifiguy]

23. Is there ANY male Repig

who keeps his pants on?

Apparently not.

[MADem]

32. OH, THOSE FAMILY VALUES!!!! Bwahahahahahaha!!!!

But LOOK at this shit!!! I hate to drive traffic to a site called "rightwing news" but they were covering this back in January of this year--so why did this guy get any juice so late in the year?

http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/member-republican-leadership-kevin-mccarthy-affair-rep-renee-ellmers/

Multiple sources within Bakersfield, North Carolina, and on Capitol Hill tell Gotnews.com that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Renee Ellmers (R-NC) have been carrying on a long-running affair since 2011.

The affair is something of an open secret in Washington, D.C. Reporters at other publications, lobbyists, congressional staffers of both parties all know about it. One staffer for a congressman describes it as the “biggest open secret” in D.C. A lobbyist describes Ellmers as a “social climber who has ingratiated herself” with McCarthy.

House leadership also knows about the affair. Speaker John Boehner reportedly told McCarthy to stop the affair once McCarthy was elected Majority Leader says a well placed congressional staffer. At least one leadership staffer doesn’t think the affair ended. “They are unusually close,” says the staffer who insists that the affair is going on. “It’s weird if he’s not f*cking her.”

Ellmers, who was elected in 2010, has traveled with Kevin McCarthy throughout North Carolina on the campaign trail in 2014. McCarthy campaigned for Ellmers during her 2014 primary challenge with radio talk show host Frank Roche.

…Calls and emails to Reps. Ellmers’s and McCarthy’s offices were unreturned.

Why would they even continue to groom this guy for continued leadership with this kind of a sword hanging over his head?

[seaotter]

38. In answer to your question, one word:

HUBRIS.

[blm]

42. It always is.

; )

[MADem]

45. That pic makes it look like he has his hand on her behind...

and they are both enjoying their little secret!

[Eleanors38]

39. "Get any juice...?" Careful with that language, son!

[MADem]

46. Hahaha!!

I was rather surprised when I "did the google" and saw how frequently, and how LONG AGO, this story was covered--by WINGNUT bloggers, not our crew!

They really get wrapped around the axle about this stuff--they were whining back in January that if the "left wing gets a hold of this, they'll make hay" and so on. But it's been an open secret, for five years, now, and no one has said a word.

It took a Republican to get all "sex scandal-icious" on this guy, and take him out. Fine with me--he's an ass and he'd do well to shut up and go away!

[blm]

48. RW hypocrites knew and didn't care as long as he played their tune….till

establishment GOP found a spot for him.

[tavernier]

66. Left wing gets a hold of this??

How hilarious.

First of all,they don't need any help. They eat their own like cannibals.

Secondly, the "left wing" is way too busy trying to keep the country running without any help from the other side. Only the teabaggers seem to have the luxury of playing games on the people's time and dime.

[MADem]

67. They didn't eat this guy, though--they let this go on for five years.

They only got nervous when he was making a play for a high visibility leadership slot.

[blm]

68. They look the other way until using it is of personal benefit to them.

They truly are hypocritical asshats.

[MADem]

69. Absolutely. I just saw a blurb on the tee vee (been out all day) that Eddie Munster is in the mix

for the gig. http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/politics/house-speaker-race-paul-ryan/



Oddly enough, I was humming the MUNSTERS theme song all day!

Jesus, that would be interesting--he's as thick as a damn brick. I don't think he has any parliamentary talent at all.

[Rex]

34. He dropped out to spend more time with his mistress er family!

[bkkyosemite]

41. I think I feel sorry for

his wife who I think was standing on the left of him today with a smile on her face as he spoke and looked like his daughter was on the right side of him. She has to know if DC knows.

[seaotter]

52. This was very last minute...

he did not bring his family to drop out.

[blm]

54. exactly….and NO corpmedia will dare mention what really led to

his sudden withdrawal.

[Rex]

55. True, whichever corporate mouth piece even uttered the truth would be fired.

WE cannot be allowed to know he gave away the GOP master game plan ON AIR. Nope. That might hurt the GOP and we all know the M$M paymasters would NOT approve of their party taking that kind of hit before an important election.

[leftynyc]

35. Wouldn't this be the 3rd Speaker

(or person running for Speaker) the Clinton's have taken down? Newt/Livingston/McCarthy

[bkkyosemite]

36. She believes marriage is between....

one man and one woman........seems it's one man married to another woman but hey it's a man nonetheless.

edit: P.S. you are right they do look like siblings, the eyes, the nose ....oh my..

[olddots]

44. this is news

everyone knows about his relationship with Elmer Fudd .

[Octafish]

47. There was a reason J Edgar Hoover said there was no Mafia.

Last edited Thu Oct 8, 2015, 06:52 PM - Edit history (1)

And Mr. Costello and Mr. Lansky each had a copy of the photo.

ETA: So did Mr. Helms and Mr. Angleton.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

59. Interesting.

Senator Jesse Helms and James Jesus Angleton.

[Octafish]

61. Anthony Summers said Hoover was very deferential to mafioso Frank Costello at the race track.

Not so shocking, considering...

J. Edgar Hoover Was Homosexual, Blackmailed by Mob, Book Says

February 06, 1993|From Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A new book contends that former FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was a homosexual who was blackmailed by the Mafia into denying the existence of organized crime for decades.

Author Anthony Summers writes in his book, "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover," that top organized crime figures Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello obtained photos of Hoover's alleged homosexual activity with longtime aide Clyde Tolson and used them to ensure that the FBI did not target their illegal activities.

SNIP...

The new book quotes two former Office of Strategic Services officials who said they saw pictures of Hoover engaged in a sexual act with Tolson. One, John Weitz, said he could not recognize anyone in the photo he was shown at a dinner party in the 1950s but was told by his host, whom he would not identify, that it depicted Hoover and Tolson.

Summers writes that electronics expert Gordon Novel said that CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton, now deceased, showed him several photos, including one of Hoover engaged in sexual activity with Tolson.

Summers writes that the Mafia may have obtained the photos from the OSS, the forerunner to the CIA. He offers the theory that OSS chief William Donovan and Hoover, while feuding over control of foreign intelligence, investigated each other and Donovan came up with the photos.

CONTINUED...

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-06/news/mn-1078_1_j-edgar-hoover

What's really evil is what came later...

Joseph Adams Milteer pretty much outlined the 'official version of Dallas' before it happened.



A rabid right-wing racist who was tape-recorded by FBI detailing the assassination of JFK "with a high-powered rifle from a high-rise office building," then a couple of weeks later appears in photographs in Dealey Plaza should make the front page and lead every broadcast, but it doesn't, for some reason.



Milteer didn't know he was being taped by an FBI informant.

The late-FBI agent Don Adams, who interviewed Milteer, came forward a few years ago and reported the FBI intentionally obstructed justice in its investigation of Milteer and in its investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy.

Those with open minds also may want to learn about Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden, the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail who reported overt racism by his fellow agents and outright hostility toward the "n------loving president" and was railroaded after reporting what he saw to the Warren Commission.

These are fascinating facts hidden to much of the public -- but not DUers who like to learn.

[Liberal_in_LA]

50. is he married?

[wheniwasincongress]

51. Yes

and not to Renee Elmers!

His wife and their daughter was standing with him at his press conference today.

[Skittles]

57. of course he is married

he's a family values kind of guy, ya know?

[blm]

62. Ellmers FB page kept busy blocking comments about her adultery.

.

[Recursion]

63. Huffpo's running it (nt)

[dembotoz]

64. tea bags kill 2 birds 1 stone

looks like renee is gonna get primaried (from one site running an opponents ad....) cause she was not whacky enuf

damage her and mc carthy all in one swoop???

good days work

[Mendocino]

65. Two Michigan

pols were recently caught in an affair. He resigned, she was expelled. Two Minnesota legislators were caught in a car in a park recently, officials said her pants were down around her knees. All of the above are married to others. Seems to be quite the pattern among these hypocrites.