Rep. Matt Gaetz has a reputation as a MAGA provocateur and ideologue on Capitol Hill, with an active ethics investigation against him. After a new profile in Atlantic, he might be known for other, worse reasons.
One of those revelations in the article published Thursday was that he would show videos of his sexual conquests to other staffers and members of Congress on Capitol Hill.
“He used to walk around the locker room showing people porn of him and his last girlfriend,” one former Republican lawmaker said. Atlantic writer Elaine Godfrey, speaking anonymously. “He was showing me a video and I was like, ‘That’s great, Matt.’ Like, what kind of reaction do you want? »
He also allegedly, early in his career as a Florida state legislator, was involved in a “points game”, in which he and other Republican legislators earned points for sleeping with women, with one point for sleeping with a lobbyist, three points for sleeping with women. for a fellow legislator, six for a married fellow legislator, and so on.
Gaetz got his start in politics thanks to the wealth and political career of his father, Don Gaetz, who would become president of the Florida Senate. The elder Gaetz ran and sold a hospice company, earning $500 million, and spent heavily funding development projects in the Florida Panhandle. The counties that make up the Panhandle, one lobbyist told Godfrey, “belong to the Gaetzes.”
Gaetz was elected to the Florida State Senate while his father was president and had a reputation for attending his father’s meetings and sitting on the couch with his feet up, according to a political consultant. The couple was often derisively called Daddy Gaetz and Baby Gaetz, according to the article.
The profile wasn’t entirely negative, however: Gaetz has apparently shown a willingness to work with Democrats, including Reps. Jared Moskowitz and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, when it benefits him.
But the recent news about the Florida Republican isn’t good. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy claims Gaetz led efforts to oust him because Gaetz wanted him to crush the ethics investigation against him. This investigation focuses on allegations that Gaetz slept with a 17 year old girlas well as cases of drug use and corruption.
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