Cheating Congressman Also Texts with Random Strangers During Scandals

PR 101: When you’re in the middle of a national scandal, don’t talk to strangers. Or just don’t talk to strangers at all. Obviously Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.), a pro-family values conservative caught on camera macking on a non-wife staffer, did not learn this crucial lesson in kindergarten, because Gawker just released a string of very, very dumb text messages that McAllister sent to a total stranger.

How dumb is this congressman? Let us count the ways:

1) The stranger, dubbing himself “Teflon Man,” somehow found a congressman’s personal cellphone number floating freely in the open pit of the internet. Said congressman, a GOP Representative in his first term, also was a subject of national scrutiny for campaigning on a family values platform, then cheating on his wife with his scheduler.

2) “Teflon Man” then sent the congressman, who should not be talking to anyone save for close friends and non-strangers, an iMessage: “Hey bro. How’s your day goin.” To his amazement, McAllister responded:

3) After many, many messages, in which McAlister admitted things that no one should tell a stranger, even one who says “Sup,” McAlister finally became suspicious after Teflon Man began blatantly prodding into the affair’s details, only responding with variations of “who is this?” and finally, after way too many messages, stopped responding.

Gawker texted the number asking its owner for comment, and, within five minutes, was on the phone with McAllister’s chief of staff. He didn’t directly confirm the veracity of the texts, but did say that their office was under “a substantial amount of local and national scrutiny.”

The morale of the story: beware of stranger danger. You never know who you can trust when you’re a congressman in the middle of a sex scandal. Even if that stranger calls you “bro.”

[Gawker]
[Image via mcallister.house.gov]

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