{"id":75933,"date":"2015-10-01T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75933"},"modified":"2015-10-02T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:30:07","slug":"boehner-replacement-kevin-mccarthy-carrying-on-long-running-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75933","title":{"rendered":"Charles Johnson: John Boehner Replacement Kevin McCarthy Carrying on Long Running Affair?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus comments<\/a> on WSJ profile of McCarthy: “WSJ-McCarthy\u2019s \u201cpersonal touch\u201d produced \u201cDeep Web of Relationships\u201d? Hmm. Am I oversensitive to possible undernews?”<\/p>\n

Charles Johnson writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

GotNews.com first published this article earlier this year and has received numerous confirmations about it since then.<\/p>\n

Neither McCarthy, nor Ellmers has denied it and now that McCarthy is next in line for the speakership of the House the affair has taken on new relevance.<\/p>\n

Multiple sources within Bakersfield, North Carolina, & on Capitol Hill tell Gotnews.com that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Renee Ellmers (R-NC) have been carrying on a long-running affair since 2011.<\/p>\n

The affair is something of an open secret in Washington, D.C. Reporters at other publications, lobbyists, congressional staffers of both parties all know about it. One staffer for a congressman describes it as the \u201cbiggest open secret\u201d in D.C. A lobbyist describes Ellmers as a \u201csocial climber who has ingratiated herself\u201d with McCarthy.<\/p>\n

House leadership also knows about the affair. Speaker John Boehner reportedly told McCarthy to stop the affair once McCarthy was elected Majority Leader says a well placed congressional staffer. At least one leadership staffer doesn\u2019t think the affair ended. \u201cThey are unusually close,\u201d says the staffer who insists that the affair is going on. \u201cIt\u2019s weird if he\u2019s not fucking her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellmers, who was elected in 2010, has traveled with Kevin McCarthy throughout North Carolina on the campaign trail in 2014. McCarthy campaigned for Ellmers during her 2014 primary challenge with radio talk show host Frank Roche.<\/p>\n

The New York Times discussed McCarthy and Ellmers\u2019s working relationship in a 2011 article.<\/p>\n

McCarthy, who can\u2019t stand the sight of blood, appreciates the ex-nurse\u2019s toughness. Ellmers is one of nine women in this high-testosterone freshman class and has to find her own way of being heard. She barraged McCarthy with e-mails and phone calls saying she saw little sense in the G.O.P. leadership\u2019s decision in June to send the White House a message by bringing to the floor a \u201dclean\u201d (or condition-free) debt ceiling and then resoundingly voting it down. Sometimes when Ellmers is talking to the whip and doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s getting through to him, she claps her hands loudly in front of his face. Sometimes McCarthy giggles and claps back.<\/p>\n

The two Republicans travel together, campaign together, and support one another in conferences.<\/p>\n

McCarthy has also made a number of trips to North Carolina to visit with Ellmers in North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus comments on WSJ profile of McCarthy: “WSJ-McCarthy\u2019s \u201cpersonal touch\u201d produced \u201cDeep Web of Relationships\u201d? Hmm. Am I oversensitive to possible undernews?” Charles Johnson writes: GotNews.com first published this article earlier this year and has received numerous confirmations about … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adultery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75952,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75933\/revisions\/75952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}