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Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus Will Marry Former Staffer Melodee Hanes

Posted on | January 4, 2011 | 7 Comments

If you’re a regular dude looking for a date, you go to a bar or use an online dating service. If you’re a United States Senator, you just get the taxpayers to hire you a girlfriend:

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says he plans to marry his girlfriend and former director of his state offices.
Baucus said Monday he and Melodee Hanes were engaged over the Christmas holiday in Helena. The 69-year-old veteran Democrat says they intend to marry in Montana this summer.
Baucus and his second wife, Wanda, divorced in early 2009 after 25 years of marriage.
The senator recommended Hanes for Montana’s U.S. attorney post in 2009, a move that later came under scrutiny due to their relationship.
By then, Hanes had withdrawn her name from consideration and instead took a job with the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.

Entirely leaving aside the divorce issue, no politician should ever — ever — date a member of his official staff, whose salaries are paid with tax dollars, and who are not on the public payroll to provide romantic companionship to elected officials.

At least Eliot Spitzer hired his whores with his own money.

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Comments

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    So he was dating someone who was on his staff?

  • Joe

    Whether Baucus’ new wife is a whore or not is unclear to me, but Baucus is most definitely an untrustworthy person with public funds and ethics who has no business in government.

  • http://912member.blogspot.com just a conservative girl

    Spitzer hired his whores?

    Love the way you turn a phrase Stacy.

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  • kansas

    In a manner of speaking, yes.

  • http://www.largegreenbird.blogspot.com Green Eagle

    I think a better analogy might be Republican Senator Ensign. He didn’t hire his girlfriend, he just got mommy and daddy to buy her off. That’s much better. And how about Republican Senator Larry Craig? Oh wait, I was wrong about that one- gay marriage isn’t legal where he comes from.

    Baucus has voted like a Republican for years. Why do you think it’s news when he acts like one?

  • onthego

    Did he use gov’t funds?
    Sort of missed the point there, didn’t you? Probably because you meant to.

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