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"    Capitol Hill is lousy with nameless, faceless aides striving to stay that way. They know better than anyone that the moment they lose their anonymity is the moment they&amp;#039;re getting yelled at. Take Javier Sanchez, senior legislative aide to Michelle Bachmann whose name meant nothing on Capitol Hill until he was busted stealing money from desk drawers. Or Jack Hunter, who&amp;#039;s both an aide to Sen. Rand Paul and a stars and bars-loving radio host called the South Avenger. Problem aides like Hunter and Sanchez are a Gingrich-sized pain in DC, where one staffer&amp;#039;s failings can land a politician in seriously unflattering headlines. Today we look back at 16 ways congressional serfs have further sullied the names of America&amp;#039;s most contemptible group of narcissistic louts: members of the U.S. Congress. 16. Tweet pervy thoughts from your boss&amp;#039; Twitter account    The politician: Rep. Ra\u00FAl Labrador (R-ID) The story: Lustful tongue wagging at nubile young waitresses is not a prized trait among Tea Party politicians. So when longtime Labrador aide Mike Handy gave the impression his boss was doing just that, he was fired. The incident occurred last February after CBS ran this Super Bowl commercial for the inexplicably popular sitcom &amp;quot;2 Broke Girls.&amp;quot; Handy liked it so he tweeted, &amp;quot;Me likey 2 Broke Girls.&amp;quot; But he tweeted it from the Congressman&amp;#039;s account, making his boss look like both perv and a &amp;quot;Tommy Boy&amp;quot; fan. Unacceptable.  15. Get in a fight with Lindsay Lohan    The politician: Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) The story: Technically, Christian LaBella was more receptionist than aide when the NYPD arrested him for assaulting Lindsay Lohan last year. But his boss&amp;#039; name was dragged though the mud all the same. As Lohan told it, she and LaBella were arguing when he put his hands around her throat. The then-staff assistant was arrested but quickly released when the charges couldn&amp;#039;t be substantiated. Shimkus&amp;#039; office never said so publicly, but it&amp;#039;s safe bet he followed the police&amp;#039;s lead and let young LeBella go.  14. Carry weed into the Senate office building    The politician: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) The story: In Sen. Boxer&amp;#039;s home state weed isn&amp;#039;t a big deal. In the Senate office building it is. Back in 2010 Boxer&amp;#039;s economics adviser Marcus Stanley was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police with a &amp;quot;green leafy substance that tested positive for marijuana.&amp;quot; Or in layman&amp;#039;s terms, marijuana. Stanley immediately resigned.  13. Drink at work and then tweet about it    The politician: Rep Rick Larsen (D-WA) The story: There&amp;#039;s nothing wrong with drinking on the job or insulting your boss. Just don&amp;#039;t tweet about it. Three aides for Rep. Larsen learned that the hard way in late 2011 as their tweets calling Larsen a &amp;quot;pussy,&amp;quot; bragging about doing shots in the office and thanking tax payers for paying them to waste time got them all fired. The shenanigans were part of a debauched month they called &amp;quot;December to Remember,&amp;quot; which was huge success since being put on blast in the national media is way more memorable than hangovers and hookups.  12. Tweet tolerant thoughts from your bigoted boss&amp;#039; account    The politician: Rep. Allen West (R-FL) The story: This one starts with a Tracy Morgan joke about kicking his hypothetically gay son out of the house. Failing to see the humor in the overt homophobia, Scissor Sisters tweeted a message of support to Morgan&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;son.&amp;quot; This is where West comes in. An intern manning the congressmen&amp;#039;s account re-tweeted that message implying that West stood with bullied children. He was having none of it. The tweet was deleted, the intern was fired and West was throughly embarrassed. At least he got the last part right. 11. Suggest a vast Washington homosexual conspiracy    The politician: Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) The story: Mis-sent emails are a real minefield, as Rep. Johnson&amp;#039;s chief of staff learned last year. In a message meant for his boss, Murat Gokcigdem suggested a gay colleague would get a job he wasn&amp;#039;t qualified for because &amp;quot;they, as a group [are] watching and supporting each other if you know what I mean.&amp;quot; Then he sent the email to the guy he was writing about. Oops! Gokcigdem was briefly suspended but the damage was done. Rep. Johnson was trashed in LGBT media and rightfully so: the whole ordeal led to the discovery that she was lying about her record on LBGT votes.  10. Display outright anti-Semitism to the media    The politician: Rep. Mike McMahon (D-NY) The story: Rep. Mike McMahon is now former Rep. Mike McMahon and it&amp;#039;s not a stretch to suggest his one-time communications director Jennifer Nelson has something to do with that. In the summer of 2010 Nelson made a list of Jewish donors to McMahon&amp;#039;s Republican challenger Mike Grimm. Then she sent that list, entitled &amp;quot;Grimm Jewish Money Q2,&amp;quot; to the New York Observer, which promptly called out the McMahon campaign for compiling the list at all. In July McMahon fired Nelson and in November his constituents fired him.  9. Go by the ominous nickname &amp;quot;Southern Avenger&amp;quot; and celebrate the Confederacy    The politician: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) The story: Unlike most of the politicians on this list, Sen. Paul has refused to censure the aide who brought shame upon his name. Jack Hunter, known otherwise as the Souther Avenger, is a Paul aide and former radio host whose schtick involved a wistful longing for the Confederacy and wrestling masks. But Paul has defended his &amp;quot;incredibly talented&amp;quot; aide despite criticism from both sides of the political aisle. Meanwhile, Democrats are printing their Paul 2016 shirts.  8. Steal money from office desks     The politician: Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) The story: At least two times earlier this year cash disappeared from the wild-eyed congresswoman&amp;#039;s office. Was it the work of Obama&amp;#039;s homosexual socialist saboteurs? Or was it was someone on the inside? Bachmann had Capitol Police find out by setting up a sophisticated sting (two envelopes with cash in them were left in a drawer) that revealed senior legislative assistant Javier Sanchez as the culprit. He was immediately fired. 7. Express support for genocide on your work computer    The politician: Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) The story: According to Senate Sergeant at Arms Terry Gainer, there&amp;#039;s a rule in the upper house &amp;quot;about only using computers for Senate business.&amp;quot; As an unnamed member of Sen. Chambliss&amp;#039; office learned in 2010, posting blog comments that say &amp;quot;All faggots must die&amp;quot; does not qualify. After some IP sleuthing and Gainer&amp;#039;s investigation, the offender was pinpointed and Chambliss said he was &amp;quot;removed&amp;quot; from the staff. Oddly, Chambliss never named the guy, leaving his the only name mentioned in reports of the comment. If we were the conspiratorial type we might suggest...nah.  6. Get arrested for running an illegal strip club     The politician: Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) The story: In September 2011, a legislative assistant under Sen. Wicker was arrested for running an illegal strip club in Jackson, Mississippi. Turns out naked ladies need a license to dance. The story had Wicker haters cackling and calling him a hypocrite, even though the charges were dropped and Baird kept his job. In the end, that&amp;#039;s a pretty huge victory for a guy who got his boss&amp;#039; name and the unauthorized shaking of breasts mentioned in the same story.  5. Drink and drive    The politician: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) The story: &amp;quot;Obviously impaired,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;unsteady on his feet,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;the definite odor of alcoholic beverage about him&amp;quot;--not how a U.S. Representative wants to see her chief of staff described. Unfortunately for Todd Poole, the man who once held that job under Rep. Foxx, they did describe him on a bad night back in 2011. Though Poole no longer works for congresswoman, it&amp;#039;s worth noting that she stood by him after the incident--an interesting choice considering the way she treats people who ride the wrong elevator.  4. Refuse to give your wife a proper Jewish divorce    The politician: Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) The story: A staffer&amp;#039;s marital strife is rarely reason to criticize a politician. Thanks to Rep. Camp&amp;#039;s aide Aharon Friedman, that&amp;#039;s not true for him. For over a year now Camp has been the target of petitions urging him to pressure Friedman into giving his wife a get, or the document that officially ends an Orthodox Jewish marriage. Friedman&amp;#039;s refusal to release ex-wife Tamar Epstein from their marriage is a form of domestic abuse activists say. Despite those activists&amp;#039; efforts, Camp says nothing. 3. Commit election fraud     The politician: Rep. Joe Garcia (D-FL) The story: &amp;quot;Shocked and disappointed&amp;quot; is how Rep. Joe Garcia publicly described his reaction to his chief of staff&amp;#039;s implication in election fraud. Privately, there were certainly more expletives. The heat came down last month when the home of Garcia&amp;#039;s top aide was raided by investigators who accused him of submitting hundreds of fraudulent absentee ballot requests prior to the 2012 primaries. The suspicious requests were never filed, leaving Garcia&amp;#039;s victory last November untainted. At least that&amp;#039;s what his supporters say.  2. Get arrested on child pornography charges.    The politician: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) The embarrassment: One day Jeff Rosato had a cushy, six-figure gig as a senior policy advisor to Sen. Boxer. The next he was arrested on charges of receiving child pornography. Oof. Rosato was immediately fired and eventually sentenced to five years in federal prison, where his expertise on endangered species, water policy and oceans is probably pretty useless.  1. Get busted in a child sex sting    The politician: Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) The story: Scheduler isn&amp;#039;t quite a glamor job in a Senator&amp;#039;s office. Once you&amp;#039;re arrested for arranging to have sex with a 13-year-old boy though, everyone knows your name. That&amp;#039;s what happened to Mike McHaney back in 2007. A low level staffer for Sen. Cantwell, McHaney exchanged messages with an FBI informant about meeting at a DC hotel to have sex with a young boy. When he got there, police arrested him in the lobby. McHaney was immediately fired after everyone in the Senator&amp;#039;s office did this. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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