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Two Members of Congress Were Rumored to Be Having an Affair. He May Be the Next Speaker. Shes Out of a Job.The whispers appeared to drive Rep. Kevin McCarthy out of the GOP leadership race three years ago. Hes back in it, but Renee Ellmers is out of elected office altogether.
MARGARET CARLSON
04.26.18 5:09 AM ET
Its a testament to male dominance in Congress that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is the leading candidate to lead House Republicans for the second time in three years, even after his first effort imploded. And that former Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, rumored to be having an affair with McCarthy that was evidently a big reason for that implosion, is gone from Washington with hardly a trace.
Both were married, both brushed off the accusation, but that didnt stop the rumor being spread by a major Republican donor, written about in influential blogs like RedState.com, and whispered about in the cloakroom. The difference in how the two people who did not return calls for this article caught up in the same rumor fared afterward is a parable of how Congress works, and doesnt, in the #MeToo era.
Ellmers was once a rising star with a career as an ICU nurse married to a surgeon in Dunn, North Carolina. She didnt like what she saw of Obamacare and decided to run for Congress. A happy conservative, telegenic, quick on her feet, a people person, she upset a seven-term incumbent in 2010. She won reelection easily until 2016, when suddenly she wasnt conservative enough any longer. She was primaried by several candidates in a redrawn district. One opponent ran an ad alluding to the alleged affair that stated, I'm not running against Renee because she's been unfaithful to her husband; I'm running against Renee because she's been unfaithful to her constituents.
Ellmers isnt running for anything these days, much less for Speaker. She lost the 2016 Second District primary by 30 points to George Holding, the representative from the 13th favored by good ole boys in Washington although he didnt even live in the district.
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2 Members of Congress Were Rumored to Be Having an Affair. He May Be the Next Speaker. She's Out... (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2018
OP
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. KICK
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. This story was floating around about McCarthy before Paul Ryan became
Speaker. I guess McCarthy feels that in the current drumpf environment, he can get away with anything. redumbliCON family values were in the toilet long ago. Flush twice!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)3. K&R