GOP Congressman Paying Ex-Mistress $500K

[NJmaverick]

(AP) A Republican congressman accused of abusing his ex-mistress agreed to pay her about $500,000 in a settlement last year that contained a powerful incentive for her to keep quiet until after Election Day, a person familiar with the terms of the deal told The Associated Press.

Rep. Don Sherwood is locked in a tight re-election race against a Democratic opponent who has seized on the four-term congressman's relationship with the woman. While Sherwood acknowledged the woman was his mistress, he denied abusing her and said that he had settled her $5.5 million lawsuit on confidential terms.

The settlement, reached in November 2005, called for Cynthia Ore to be paid in installments, according to a person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal is confidential. She has received less than half the money so far, and will not get the rest until after the Nov. 7 election, the person said Thursday.

SNIP

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/03/politics/main2148582.shtml

[krispos42]

1. Lady, take the$ 2.75 million and tell your story now...

You may well wind up saving the country by unseating your abuser and putting sensible people in chart of the Congress

[sugapablo]

2. Wimmins is expensive. ;) n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Being a mistress to a GOP Congressman....

Great work, if you can get it. :rofl:

[TexasLawyer]

6. I dunno

Look at that guy! That would be some difficult work.

[TexasLawyer]

4. Wow, our great beacons of morality

Fast Fact

Sherwood, a 65-year-old married father of three who is considered a family-values conservative, had one of the safest seats in Congress until Ore sued him in June 2005, alleging he physically abused her throughout their five-year affair.

[gratuitous]

5. Who would Jesus buy off?

My, my, my. All these champions of family values keep slipping and damn if their penises don't go into the darnedest places!

[Ian David]

7. If this is how he treated the woman he slept with for fun...

just imagine how badly he must treat the woman he has to come home to.

Such rage against women these Republickers have.

[katty]

8. paying missy with U.S. taxpayers slave wages