Vito Fossella Cries On House Floor After Drunk Driving, Adultery Revelations

Disgraced New York Congressman Vito Fossella broke down in tears on the floor of the House of Representatives today, apparently under the emotional weight of his recent behavior.

Fossella acknowledged on Thursday that he had fathered a daughter, now three years old, with a woman who wasn't his wife. News of his adultery came just a week after the Staten Island Republican was arrested for drunk driving in suburban Virginia.

Appearing on the House floor today, Fossella broke down when talking with House Chaplain, Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, a Hill source who witnessed the event told The Huffington Post. The episode occurred shortly after the congressman voted against the Neighborhood Stabilization Act of 2008, a housing bill that passed through the House by a 239 to 188 vote.

Fossella's political and legal future is currently up in the air. He is expected to appear in court next week and could face jail time if convicted for his drunk driving charge.

According to the New York Times:

"A police report in Alexandria, Va., a suburb of Washington, said that Mr. Fossella ran a red light on Thursday just after midnight and had a "strong smell of alcoholic beverage" when he was pulled over. According to the report, Mr. Fossella told the officer that he was on his way to pick up his daughter, who needed to go to the hospital, although on Friday he said that he had been on his way to visit friends.

The report said Mr. Fossella failed several sobriety tests on the street, including a preliminary breath test on which he registered a blood alcohol level of 0.133 percent. After he was arrested, he recorded a level of 0.17 percent on another machine. The legal limit in Virginia, as in most states, is 0.08 percent."

Comments

[dadw5boys]

OOPS !

Another one bites the dust!

Run to church you can do all the evil you want and be forgiven on Sunday if your a Right Wing Republican.

Hurry get to church.

[pbfishtaco]

I expect a full Spitzerama of coverage for this trusted public servant.

Wait, is that the sound of crickets I hear???

[kellygrrrl]

gotz to love those Rethugs!!!!!

they are such a great parody of themselves!

[Teritt]

Hey- this was just the fine print in Newt's "Contract with America" that we all failed to read. They apparently promised to give us all the crooks (Delay, Cunningham, Abramoff, the Alaska guy, etc)& sexual predators (starting w/Newt, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, David Vitter, now this jerk, along with the OH guy last week). This should be a lesson to all of us - read the fine print on all contracts that are put forth by the GOP.

[arvada]

never,ever sign a contract with the g.o.p.

[ann1]

Infidelity should be a prerequisite for politicians running for office. It's ridiculous to ask officials to have a standard of morality that most Americans don't have. It's his personal life......as long as he's doing his job, it shouldn't be any of our business.

[wmbear]

REPUBLICAN HAS "LOVE CHILD" - NOT NEWS...

Republican cries -- news.

[dadw5boys]

Crying not news he was crying because he screwed hisself not because he harmed his fellow American.

[JJK]

Vito is toast.

His Clinton impeachment vote is the cinnamon and sugar that makes it extra tasty and fun to eat.

[Puller58]

You know, I'm starting to feel bad for the GOPers. I mean, they have no idea how to handle these delicate situations. Allow me to offer something for any GOPer who gets caught in the future. Just tell the Democrats, "You're all a bunch of commies and you're gonna go the Hell!" So easy, so simple, so perfect for the moment. You can be sure talk radio will give it plenty of airtime. The inbred psychobillies that support you will be so impressed that they'll take out their checkbooks and write you a check on the spot to help fight those nogood pinko commies. Remember, I'm here to help.

[dct1999]

Spitzer, Patterson, Fossella...we NYers are adulterer fatigued. What the hell is up with these guys? Is humiliating your wife and children now a requirement for elected officials here?

[larmarch5]

Hey, let's elect more women and let these guys become appendicks.

[crl9]

I think this guy must be a closet Democrat. Pure vanilla, heterosexual extra-marital affair. Where is my Republican scandal replete with bathroom stalls, young men, rubber, et al (check out the smoking gun for that one -way too weird for me to recount here)? Clearly this is a conflicted guy. Nice touch, that vote to impeach Bill Clinton. Not enough hypocrisy to make it a real Republican scandal but at least he got something right. /sarcasm

[sco8d]

I don't understand how the Republicans can continue to claim the moral high ground after so much sleeze. At least McCain is clean, oh, yeah, he dumped his first wife for an richer younger woman he calls a c*nt in public, my bad. Will this guy get the shafting Spitzer got? I have doubts.

[UncleJimbo]

Hey! How did you get away with saying c*nt? I said in another story since she wouldn't release her Income Taxes he should justdivorce the c*unt,and I got scrubbed! WAAAH!

[BWonka]

Hey, at least he gave the Democrats another seat in the House come the general election!

[MizLiz]

What is it with these Republicans anyway? I suppose the leadership is just grateful another WOMAN is involved.....

[soulfulnotes]

Yup. Another Greedy Old Pervert crying on the Capitol floor.

[Counterglow]

The strangest thing about this story is that a member of the Republican Party had their extramarital affair with what would appear to be a normal, adult member of the opposite sex. I thought they preferred more flamboyant moral lapses, such as soliciting gay sex in public washrooms and the pursuit of teenage pages.

Drunk driving, cheating on his wife, lying to police (let's face it...one version of his story is pure BS)...that's what we expect from just about every member of Congress. The ones who slap you across the face with a Bible and talk about how you have no respect for family values usually get caught diving much deeper into a cesspool of hypocrisy.

By the way, I speak as someone who still has occasional neck pain due to an accident more than 20 years ago when a drunk driver ran a red light and T-boned my car.

[queensboro]

holla, hypocrites, he's a coward.

[helonias]

Luke 16:18
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. (So Says Jesus)

Lev 20:10
And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

But since this god fearing repub christian man cried like a little girl and the amount of salinity in his tears was really high and because his goomrah had such perky boobs, everything is okay.

Right?

[Eoin45]

"Luke 16:18
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. (So Says Jesus)" Interesting the way nearly all Christians completely ignore this but attack gay marriage. I guarantee we'll never see a conservative trying to make divorce illegal even though it's completely against Jesus' teachings.

[queensboro]

just something for some to hide behind!

[misterbone]

Technically, it's not the divorce but the remarrying (by the man in each case) that is forbidden by Scripture.

[helonias]

Notice there is nothing in the 10 commandments about being gay but there is about being an adulterer.

Whats the deal with that and why isn't important to most religious folks.

[BWonka]

According to ReThuglicans, Luke 16:18 doesn't apply to them... well, at least not to John McCain.

[dadw5boys]

AHH MAN .....

Quoting scriptures?

Please tell me when they were deciding what to include in the Christian Bible and what to leave out who got to pick these for inclusion?

What exactly did they leave out? Do you really trust other humans to write your religion from scratch.

[helonias]

I trust the only one true religion, the northern, deformed, 3rd day, visogoths of christ the geologist

[Irishfly]

As a native Staten Islander, I can't help but love that Vito's hypocrisy is finally getting some national attention. We've been dealing with his b-s for years.

[queensboro]

thought his suave ass was slick.