GOP legislator describes affair with lobbyist on live mic

News sources in California have recently learned that a conservative Republican member of that state’s Assembly was recorded without his knowledge earlier this summer describing lurid details of his affair with a lobbyist.

Orange County Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall apparently didn’t realize that his mic had gone live just before a committee hearing. At the time, he was telling a Republican colleague, “We had made love Wednesday — a lot! And so she’ll, she’s all, ‘I am going up and down the stairs, and you’re dripping out of me!’ So messy!”

“So, I am getting into spanking her,” Duvall continued. “Yeah, I like it. I like spanking her. She goes, ‘I know you like spanking me.’ I said, ‘Yeah! Because you’re such a bad girl!’”

Duvall, a former president of the Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce, is married with two children. According to R. Scott Moxley of OC Weekly, his paramour, with whom he has frequently been seen at restaurants and even at fund-raising events, is Heidi DeJong Barsuglia, a “hot blonde” 18 years his junior. Barsugla was hired last spring to lobby for a major energy company soon after Duvall became vice-chairman of the Utilities and Commerce Committee.

Duvall’s recorded comments reveal, however, that he is even cheating on Barsuglia. “She is hot!” Duvall said of this other woman, who is also a lobbyist. “I go, ‘You know about the other one [Barsuglia] but she doesn’t know about you.”

Moxley wrote on Tuesday, “Repeatedly asked to explain his recorded sexual boasting, a red-faced Duvall fled me and another reporter, Dave Lopez of KCBS in Los Angeles, three times this afternoon in capitol hallways. He also ignored three handwritten interview requests that were delivered to him on the floor of the assembly. Said one assembly employee who witnessed the scene, ‘It definitely looks like he is afraid of you guys.’”

In his own tv segment on the story, Lopez noted that sources told him Duvall “loves to talk about his ’sexual conquests.’ The source goes on to say, ‘It makes us all feel very uncormfortable, but it’s very difficult to get him to change the subject.’”

According to Lopez, Duvall even told this source at one point, “You know, you’ve got to be real careful what you say up here, because they could have microphones hidden in a salt shaker.”

Duvall has a reputation as a vocal opponent of gay marriage and announced last spring that he was working to protect “California families” from “constant assault in Sacramento.”

On that occasion, the president of the conservative Capitol Resource Institute — which was a major backer of the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 — said of Duvall, “For the last two years, he has voted time and time again to protect and preserve family values in California. We are grateful for his support of California families.’”

This video is from KCAL 9 News in Los Angeles, broadcast September 8, 2009. It can also be viewed here.

By Muriel Kane
Published: September 9, 2009 Rawstory.com

C is For "Cheat" Not "Christian" Bwah-ha-ha-ha

Third alleged affair tied to C Street Christian dorm
By Raw Story Published: July 17, 2009

The last month has been tough for some Republicans. But, apparently, even worse for their wives.

After a sitting governor and a senator both admitted marital infidelities, the wife of a former congressman is alleging that an affair her husband rekindled with an old flame not only broke up his marriage, but also ruined his political career.

Strangely enough, all FOUR(see addendum below) have ties to the same house on C Street.

“A Capitol Hill townhouse that serves as a dormitory and meeting place for a band of conservative Christian lawmakers has been linked to a third episode of marital infidelity, this time in a Mississippi court filing by a former lawmaker’s estranged wife,” Jonathan Allen reports for CQ Politics.

Allen notes, “In an ‘alienation of affection’ lawsuit, former Rep. Charles W. Pickering Jr.’s estranged wife, Leisha, alleges that he carried on an extramarital affair with a onetime college sweetheart while he lived at a house at 133 C Street in Southeast Washington. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., and Gov. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., both of whom admitted to cheating on their wives in recent weeks, are members of the Christian fellowship of lawmakers known as ‘C Street’ for the address of the house where several of the members live at any given time.”

According to Roll Call’s Jackie Kucinich, “Leisha Pickering alleged in the court document that the Mississippi Republican’s decision to leave the House at the end of the 110th Congress came after Creekmore-Byrd told him ‘as long as he remained in public life that she and he could not have a private life together.’”

More from Roll Call:

The complaint also asserts that Creekmore-Byrd’s ultimatum led to Pickering’s decision to not seek the Senate seat vacated by Lott.

“Ultimately, Creekmore-Byrd gave Pickering the option to remain a public servant or become a private citizen and continue relations with her,” the complaint reads.
Politico notes, “Pickering is now a lobbyist for Cellular South, a telecom company owned by Creekmore Byrd’s family.”

At Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall observes, “You remember the C Street Group, the combo Bible fellowship and group home for members of Congress up on Capitol Hill. But it’s been occurring to us that the C Street Group, which is an emanation of a shadowy religious outfit called ‘the Family’, might not be a religious fellowship at all so much as a covert 12 Step Group from Republican Hound Dogs, womanizers and sex addicts trying to get clean during their tenure in the hallowed halls of Congress.”

A PDF of Leisha Pickering’s complaint can be accessed at this link.

ADDENDUM: Republican Louisiana Senator David Vitter is also a part of this Cheat Street Cabal.On July 10, 2007, Jeanette Maier, the "Canal Street Madam", testified that Vitter was a customer on more than one occasion in the 1990s, when Maier was identified by federal prosecutors as operating a $300 per hour brothel and that he favored one prostitute in particular, Wendy Cortez.

Republican senators gave Vitter a "loud standing ovation", which is hypocritical becauseof the Republican attitude toward Clinton's marital infidelity. The applause came after Vitter privately apologized to his colleagues for the affair with the prostitute.

Republican Senator Sam Brownback saidn on October 5, 2007 that Vitter should be censured by the Senate. He said, "I think you could see something like that taking place. If you look at the actual crime itself and the discussion across the country – and as a Republican – this is bad."