Reps. Mary Bono, Connie Mack announce engagement

[Judi Lynn]

Source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5117641.html

Sept. 7, 2007, 6:30PM
Reps. Mary Bono, Connie Mack announce engagement


Associated Press

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GOP Reps. Mary Bono of California and Connie Mack of Florida announced their engagement Friday after dating for two years.

Mack proposed a week ago while the couple were on a camping trip in Arches National Park in Utah, said Bono's chief of staff, Frank Cullen Jr.

"Happy news," Cullen said. Congress returned from its summer recess this week and the couple have been informing colleagues.

Bono, 45, was married to the late singer-turned-politician Sonny Bono, and replaced him in a special election in Congress in 1998 representing Palm Springs and other parts of inland Southern California.





Read more: Reps. Mary Bono, Connie Mack announce engagement

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[saracat]

1. And what happens to residency?Shouldn't one resign?Or don't Repug

family values include living together? Hmm?

[brooklynite]

20. Adds a new perspective to "commuter marriage"...

although in reality, they probably spend most of their time in Washington ("out of touch with the needs of their constituents").

[tblue37]

34. They spend most of their lives in D.C. anyway. (eom)

[ashling]

2. she's got him

babe

[DeSwiss]

3. Hmmmm....

"Mack proposed a week ago while the couple were on a camping trip in Arches National Park in Utah, said Bono's chief of staff, Frank Cullen Jr."

I'm sure they had separate sleeping bags.... er I mean tents.

Family values -- YAY!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I'm not surprised. I didn't think Leadership would have permitted her to marry outside The Party.

Partison thugs that they are . . .

[Lasher]

6. But they're both republicans, right?

:shrug:

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Exactly. More republican inbreeding.

[Maribelle]

5. That picture is Bono's future father-in-law - - it's his son that's currently in Congress

And the son is just as much the hypocrite as the father.


http://mack.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutConnieMack.Biography

[Judi Lynn]

27. Whoa! I really didn't know there was a Baby Mack. Thanks for setting the record straight! n/t

[Maribelle]

30. Of course you've never heard of the Baby Mack - - he is a total zero.

He is my congressman, and the only time I ever read about him on a national level is when he's bonking bono.

[Maribelle]

7. The current congressman Mack

[MaineDem]

12. Would you buy a used car from that man?

He looks...shifty. :D

[Maribelle]

15. That's because he is shifty,.

Just like Bush. Notice the resemblance in the eyes? :hide:

[Cobalt Violet]

9. I wonder what bathroom they'll get married in.

Well that's the first thought in my head this morning. I better get some coffee.

[lynne]

10. Love is a good thing and should be celebrated -

- no matter which side of the political aisle it comes from. I wish them well in their marriage and life together.

[Maribelle]

13. Love?

I could use tons of words to describe this relationship, and love is not one of them.

The Bono/Mack relationship is:

Hungry
Thirsty
Lustful
Amoral
Power grubbing
Scandalous
Covetous
Disrespectful
Arrogant
Brazen
Presumptuous
Bold
Impudent

A reckless disregard for the sanctity of marriage
A callous disposition for the children
Oh so typical faux conservatism

Mack comes from a district that is perhaps 75% republican. This, and a great name recognition, equals not a chance of being voted out of office in the foreseeable future by the good hypocrites. Frat boy Mack has learned a lot from the Baby Bush.

[lynne]

22. That's a pretty long laundry list -

Gee, you must be peeking into their bedroom to know all of that!!!!! Guess I'm just a hopeless romantic but I wish any and all who find love well even if I don't agree with their politics. Who knows, maybe love will allow them see the light! Stranger things have happened!

[Maribelle]

23. Peeking?

:puke:

[DarbyUSMC]

45. I agree lynne.

IMO politicians are all scoundrels in one way or another. Life is more than politics, thankfully. I'm always glad to read good things about people, whoever they are. We all get on with the basics in life no matter who is elected or not elected; who marries whomever, or who, in our own party,is arrested in New Jersey on corruption charges. There are skeletons in all the closets. Really smart people probably don't run for office partly because of that.

[liberal renegade]

11. Don't take any ski vacations, Mack........

[Raine]

46. Yeah really...

I heard that Sonny was going to divorce her but he had that timely accident that killed him before he could move to do it. :tinfoilhat:

[Canuckistanian]

14. So, Her name will be Mary Mack?

[Maq]

18. I thought of the Ironclads

Merrimac and the Monitor

[Texifornia]

33. Somebody better monitor...

Mary Mack.

[Berry Cool]

21. so, no one remembers the one

all dressed in black, black, black
with silver buttons, buttons, buttons
all down her back, back, back?

[Maq]

24. Condi Rice maybe

only the second cup of coffee this AM. forgive me.

[karynnj]

37. That was the first think I thought of

Wasn't that a jump rope thing?

[Canuckistanian]

41. That was a skipping song, wasn't it?

I seem to remember those words.

[sueh]

42. Hey, I remember that!!

[trashcanistanista]

48. She asked her mother

mother, mother
for fifty cents, cents, cents
to see the elephant, elephant elephant
jump over the fence, fence, fence,

he jumped so high, high, high
he reached the sky, sky sky,
and he didn't come back, back, back
til the fourth of july, july, july

[Maq]

16. John Bryan can't make the wedding

John Bryan, a staunch Republican and former finance chairman for U.S. Sen. Connie Mack won't make the wedding. However, don't birds of a feather flock together? Are there any kids involved in this wedding situation?

Source: St. Petersburg Times

ST. PETERSBURG - City Council Chairman John Bryan walked into City Hall just after 1 p.m. Friday and handed in his resignation letter.

Less than five hours later, he was slumped over in a golf cart in the garage of his Floral City house, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. He was 56.

Bryan's suicide came after news spread Friday that authorities were investigating allegations that he had sexually abused three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12 and 15. Ron Stuart, a spokesman for the Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court, said the third alleged victim was a nanny for Bryan years ago and no longer lives in the area....

[Maribelle]

17. I think he should be forced to go to the wedding, of courpse

Connie Mack Island will be renamed to Devils Island
The temperature will be very hot and sultry
Decorations will be tropical so they could use his Palms
Bush will be coming, in hopes to fill his coffins
And the bride will be dressed in a demure flame red with matching designer horns, pitching a fork

[Maq]

19. Now Connie can get a

Bon(er)o

[kskiska]

25. She's had a husband after Sonny

Wikipedia
She was married to Palm Springs businessman Glenn Baxley (2001 to 2005).

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She probably dumped him for this guy if they've been dating for two years.


Also from Wikipedia:

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…She said that were it not for her late husband Sonny's royalties, she "could not afford college for son." Along with college expenses, she had to pay for new cars for both her and Chesare. Chesare, Chez for short, planned to attend USC in the fall of 2006; the school estimates yearly expenses to be $46,966.<6> In 2006, it was reported that she had received $30,000 from the later-indicted Jack Abaramoff.<7><8> In her official 2005 filing, Bono stated that her income from royalties and dividends was between US$402,000 and US$3.3 million.

[mitchum]

26. She really does have rotten taste in men

[cureautismnow]

28. Cher sang about this union in the 70's

"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves."

[mikeargo]

29. Connie Mack???

Isn't he like, 197 years old??

[Judi Lynn]

31. I think this one is at least the 3rd Connie Mack, maybe the 4th.

They are very heavily involved in right-wing Cuban "exile" politics in South Florida. Senator Connie Mack is the campaign chairman for Cuban Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. He has been in bed with the "exiles" for ages.

This particular Mack is setting precident by striking out on his own with his own anti-Hugo Chavez campaign, and he wants the U.S. taxpayers to finance new anti-Chavez satellite programming to Venezuela. Just saw this truly obnoxious news:

Do We Have To Start Paying Their Cable Bill, Too?

Attention all fake journalists from the greater Miami area: you are one step closer to employable! Connie Mack just slipped an amendment into the 2008 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill that would expand Voice of America and beam it over to Venezuela in order to convince them to stop voting for people we don’t like.

Mack’s press release doesn’t specify exactly what its going to cost us taxpayers, but our programming to Cuba has run up a $250 million dollar tab over the past decade, and um, Venezuela is quite a bit larger than Cuba and sort of on another continent, so you can imagine.

This is a really important move, Mack tells us, because in Venezuela, “the only thing the people can see or hear are the things that Hugo Chavez lets his media print and broadcast.” If true, then Chavez has some seriously diverse tastes, and a lot of freaking time on his hands to monitor it all.

Here’s a listing of what’s playing on Venezuelan cable TV tonight. Apparently Chavez has personally approved news coverage by opposition station Globovision, as well as international carriers like CNN, Fox News and the BBC. He’s also given the thumbs up to “Los Dukes de Hazzard,” “La Famila Ingalls,” and, awesomely, “Los Angeles de Charlie.” That, along with the full programming schedules of about 200 other domestic and international stations. Seriously, it’s a wonder he has any time left over to hate our way of life--although if he actually sat through that all-day marathon of Talladega Nights on channel 414, I sort of don't blame him.

I just hope Mack has slipped in an enormous advertising budget for VOA.Ve. If it gets lost in all those TV options, people might start to think it’s a big ol' waste of our tax dollars.
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http://www.borev.net/2007/06/do_we_have_to_start_paying_the.html

[yardwork]

32. That was my first reaction, too. It figures that the Mack clan spawned.

[Mend]

35. it is actually the McGillicuddie clan, their real name...

[ruggerson]

36. You have the wrong picture in the OP

that's the bridegroom's DAD.

Here is the couple.

[saracat]

38. I hope they get their asses kicked out of Congress.I think an issue should

be made of two congressional salaries in one family and both are worthless. A match made in DC> Both are dumb as rocks.Mary is undoubtedly stupider than Anna Nicole Smith and Mack is a RW moron living on family connections.What a pair! So this is how they spent their time on our money and the RW complained about Clinton because they said it was on our dime.And oh yes, she was married at the time but that doesn't count cause she is a Republican!

[SoCalDem]

39. Mary likes those celebs , doesn't she?

Too bad she didn't stay with the restaurant in Palm Springs.. She's my stinking rep :puke:

[gauguin57]

40. Will they be married in the Scientology cathedral in FLA/Cali?

She's either out and out Scientologist or at least VERY Scientology-friendly (she and Sonny both dabbled in Scientology back in the day).

Is Connie a Cultie too?

[ProudDad]

43. connie mack used to work for the company that owns...

http://www.hootersflorida.com/

republican family values...

And, Bono, well...

"<Sonny> Bono married his first wife, Donna Rankin, on Nov. 3, 1954 and they had a daughter, Christine ("Christy"), born on June 24, 1958, before divorcing in 1962. Bono and Cher had a daughter, Chastity Bono, on March 4, 1969. Six years later, in 1975, Bono and Cher divorced. Bono then married Susie Coelho, but divorced her in 1984; he married again in 1986 to the much younger Mary Whitaker. The couple had two children, Chesare Elan Bono (a son, born 1988) and Chianna Marie Bono (a daughter, born 1991). He became a Scientologist, partly because of the influence of Mimi Rogers, but stated that he was still a Roman Catholic on all official documents, campaign materials, web sites, etc. Mary Bono also took Scientology courses"

Scientology!!!! Damn, a right-wing cultist...

[goodhue]

44. That's the wrong Mack pictured there

[TheCowsCameHome]

47. Is Mack going to get a Peterbilt?