{"id":1759880,"date":"2022-12-02T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T17:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759880"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T17:04:29","slug":"congressional-black-caucus-elects-dem-who-had-years-long-affair-with-intern-as-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-black-caucus-elects-dem-who-had-years-long-affair-with-intern-as-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Black Caucus Elects Dem Who Had Years-Long Affair With Intern as Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongressional-black-caucus-elects-dem-who-had-years-long-affair-with-intern-as-chair%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759880&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Self-described &#8216;devoted family man&#8217; Steven Horsford threatened wife with legal action if she spoke up about his affair with 21-year-old<\/p>\n<p>    Democratic Nevada congressman Steven Horsford \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 December 2, 2022 11:54 am  <\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Black Caucus elected a new chair this week: Nevada Democrat Steven Horsford, who ran for Congress as a &#8220;devoted family man&#8221; after cheating on his wife with a 21-year-old intern.<\/p>\n<p>The caucus\u2014which bills itself as the &#8220;conscience of the Congress&#8221;\u2014announced the move on Wednesday, with outgoing chairwoman Joyce Beatty (D., Ohio) saying she is &#8220;confident our power and our message are in capable hands.&#8221; Horsford&#8217;s ascent to the top of the caucus comes roughly two years after the Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dem-congressman-admits-to-decade-long-affair-with-former-intern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted to a years-long extramarital affair<\/a> with Gabriela Linder. The pair met in 2009, when Linder was a 21-year-old Hill intern and Horsford was a 36-year-old state lawmaker. The affair, Linder said in May 2020, initially lasted a year and a half before it resumed from 2017 to 2019, which overlaps with Horsford&#8217;s time in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>After she revealed the affair, Linder advised Horsford\u2014who was running for Congress as a &#8220;devoted family man&#8221;\u2014to &#8220;step out of public office for some time&#8221; and &#8220;do some atoning.&#8221; But Horsford stayed in the race, secured reelection in November 2020, and filed to run for a third consecutive term roughly a year and a half later\u2014a decision his estranged wife Sonya Douglass blasted in a March <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drsonyadouglass\/status\/1505518437346562054?s=20&#038;t=SLN9YX-RLZEd2u3Hx2jpcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have remained silent for nearly two years and want it to be clear that I am not enjoying the pain that my children and I continue to suffer since [Horsford] told me the day after Mother\u2019s Day about his 10-year affair AFTER already speaking to his staff and attorneys,&#8221; Douglass wrote. &#8220;And that he would choose to file for reelection and force us to endure yet another season of living through the sordid details of the #horsfordaffair with #mistressforcongress rather than granting us the time and space to heal as a family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Horsford went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/this-dem-congressman-had-a-years-long-affair-with-an-intern-now-his-ex-wife-says-hes-threatening-her-to-keep-quiet\/\">threaten legal action<\/a> against Douglass if she continued to discuss the ordeal publicly, Douglass revealed in October. &#8220;I was just minding my business until Steven and his attorney demanded I sign an NDA that would ban me from speaking about my 22-year marriage, his 10-year affair, and our divorce FOREVER,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Black Caucus elected a new chair this week: Nevada Democrat Steven Horsford, who ran for Congress as a &#8220;devoted family man&#8221; after cheating on his wife with a 21-year-old intern.<br \/>\nThe post Congressional Black Caucus Elects Dem Who Had Years-Long Affair With Intern as Chair appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1718636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}