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...certain point, you have to start feeling bad for the scandal-scarred residents of Florida's 16th Congressional District, who are only two years removed from the abrupt resignation of Republican Representative Mark Foley after claims that he sent inappropriate, sexually suggestive e-mail and text messages to young male pages on Capitol Hill. That scandal helped catapult the Democrat Tim Mahoney, an investment banker, into the House; soon after his swearing in as the Representative of the Republican-leaning district, he told reporters that Foley had not reflected the "values and morals" required to serve in office...
...scandal, not surprisingly, has sparked all sorts of speculation and questions. Political insiders said rumors of Mahoney's philandering had surfaced for years, so who leaked this story now? Why are the ABC story's main sources former and current campaign staffers? And will the state and national party vigorously defend Mahoney, who is not considered a rising star...
...effort to somehow get past the stench of scandal, Feeney took a calculated gamble, airing a 30-second TV spot for 10 days beginning in late September to apologize for his Abramoff-funded golf vacation. That trip has earned him scrutiny in an ongoing U.S. Justice Department investigation; a featured spot for three years running on the list of most corrupt government officials compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW); and plenty of ammunition for Kosmas...
...people are just voting emotionally and they're looking for someone to be mad at, that [Abramoff scandal] would be a problem and we felt it was very important to get that out of the way very early in the race," Feeney said in an interview with TIME. "That immediately takes the issue off the table...
...also resides in Feeney's district, said the ad could backfire as otherwise unengaged voters get clued in. "If they had asked me, I would have suggested not to run it," Jewett said. "It's hard to say exactly how it will pan out. It did bring the scandal to more people's attention." Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words, says political apologies are rarely perceived as genuine, leaving in question their impact...