Post by ck4829 on Mar 17, 2022 14:37:19 GMT
Republican congressman’s career derailed by ‘ISIS bride’ scandal
As recently as a few days ago, Rep. Van Taylor’s career appeared to be in pretty good shape. The Texas Republican was facing some primary rivals, but he was expected to prevail and win re-election with relative ease in his “red” congressional district.
(And then he announced) he was dropping his re-election bid after having admitted to an extramarital affair. “Today I am announcing I will not continue my campaign to seek re-election to Congress,” Taylor said in an email to his supporters. “I want to apologize for the pain I have caused with my indiscretion, most of all to my wife Anne and our three daughters.”
Taylor is hardly the first member of Congress to be derailed by a sex scandal, but by most measures, the details of his controversy are a bit worse than most. From the NBC News report:
Taylor withdrew days after conservative sites, including Breitbart, published allegations that he had had an affair with Tania Joya, a Plano resident referred to by tabloids as the “ISIS bride” because of her past marriage to an American who joined the Islamic State terrorist group. Joya told Breitbart News that Taylor had paid her to keep quiet about the affair.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republican-congressmans-career-derailed-isis-bride-scandal-rcna18493
As recently as a few days ago, Rep. Van Taylor’s career appeared to be in pretty good shape. The Texas Republican was facing some primary rivals, but he was expected to prevail and win re-election with relative ease in his “red” congressional district.
(And then he announced) he was dropping his re-election bid after having admitted to an extramarital affair. “Today I am announcing I will not continue my campaign to seek re-election to Congress,” Taylor said in an email to his supporters. “I want to apologize for the pain I have caused with my indiscretion, most of all to my wife Anne and our three daughters.”
Taylor is hardly the first member of Congress to be derailed by a sex scandal, but by most measures, the details of his controversy are a bit worse than most. From the NBC News report:
Taylor withdrew days after conservative sites, including Breitbart, published allegations that he had had an affair with Tania Joya, a Plano resident referred to by tabloids as the “ISIS bride” because of her past marriage to an American who joined the Islamic State terrorist group. Joya told Breitbart News that Taylor had paid her to keep quiet about the affair.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republican-congressmans-career-derailed-isis-bride-scandal-rcna18493