The mother of all hot mic moments, featuring California GOP Assemblyman Mike Duvall boasting about his torrid extramarital affair with a lobbyist whose industry he is responsible for regulating as a committee vice-chairman (h/t Daily Kos diarist not a cent):
To give a flavor of the video, here's one highlight:
So I am getting into spanking her...yeah, I like it. I like spanking her. She goes "I know you like spanking me." I said yeah, that's because you're such a bad girl...
TPM has more detail on comments by Duvall that weren't aired on TV, including TMI moments like this:
She wears little eye-patch underwear. So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And
so, 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!
But the most fascinating thing? Apparently Duvall's lover was not only 19 years his junior, but was a lobbyist for the energy industry, which falls directly under the jurisdiction of one of Duvall's committee assignments.
According to both KCAL and the OC Weekly, an alternative weekly in Orange County, the woman who wears the "eye-patch underwear" is Heidi DeJong Barsuglia, a lobbyist for an energy company, Sempra Energy. Duvall is vice chair of the Committee on Utilities & Commerce.
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According to the OC Weekly, Duvall and Barsuglia have been seen "arm-in-arm" at fund-raising events, and even shopping for groceries together near the Capitol.
One Sacramento staffer told the paper:
Their relationship is the worst-kept secret in Sacramento. He's old and fat. She's hot, blonde and about 20
years younger. He could have never gotten a woman like that before he got
this job.
As for the second woman, whose identity remains unconfirmed, Duvall said in the recorded conversation:
Oh, yeah, Sher, Shar, Shar. Oh, she is hot! I talked to her yesterday. She goes, 'So are we finished?' I go, 'No, we're not finished.' I go, 'You know about the other one [Barsuglia], but she doesn't know about you!'
This story, of course, just wouldn't be the same if Duvall -- a former mayor of Yorba Linda and the owner of an insurance company -- weren't known as a strict conservative and a staunch defender of family values. But alas, he is.
Of course, Duvall is strongly opposed to gay marriage. After all, he wants to protect the sanctity of opposite-sex extramarital affairs.