Sen. Max Baucus Nominted Mistress for US Attorney

December 5, 2009
By 2 comments

I wonder how much air time this story will get from the media.

Roll Call reported:

Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’ office confirmed late Friday night that the Montana Democrat was carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her to be U.S. attorney in Montana.

According to a source familiar with their relationship, Hanes and Baucus began their relationship in the summer of 2008 – nearly a year before Baucus and his wife, Wanda, divorced in April 2009. The Senator had informally separated from his wife in March 2008 and they were living apart when he began dating Hanes, according to Baucus’ office.

Hanes ended her employment with Baucus in the spring of this year.

Hanes, who is divorced and now lives with Baucus in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, D.C., ultimately withdrew her name from consideration for the U.S. attorney position in order to move to Washington, and she now works in the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as a counselor to the administrator.

Baucus spokesman Tyler Matsdorf said the relationship was not the cause of Baucus’ divorce and that Baucus did not arrange for her current position with DOJ. …

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2 Responses to Sen. Max Baucus Nominted Mistress for US Attorney

  1. Sam Adams on December 5, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    If this was a Republican it would be on 24-7 until our heads exploded.

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  2. michigan on December 5, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    It’s insulting to anyone with a brain that Baucus says none of this had anything to do with any of that. But it’s just résumé enhancement for any Democrat politician. Just remember, it matters not what they do; only what they say. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”

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