The estranged wife of Rep. Steven Horsford is accusing the Nevada Democrat of bullying and intimidation.
Sonya Douglass’s charges against the congressman come a bit over a week before Horsford faces voters in the northern Las Vegas area and rural central Nevada 4th Congressional District. Horsford and two Nevada House Democratic colleagues, Reps. Susie Lee and Dina Titus, each face tough reelection fights in the Silver State, which, along with tight Senate and governor races, has turned into a premier 2022 electoral battleground. Republicans are focused on capturing all three seats in their bid to win a House majority on Nov. 8.
Douglass’s criticisms of Horsford came in an emoji-filled Twitter thread on Sunday.
Douglass, a professor and the director of the Black Education Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York City, has for some time been unenthusiastic about Horsford’s reelection bid. On March 24, she implored Horsford not to run for another term, nearly two years after he admitted to having an on-and-off affair with a woman 15 years his junior starting in 2009, when she was a 21-year-old college senior.
Horsford, the first black member of Congress from Nevada, in May 2020 admitted to carrying on a long-standing affair with a former intern for Harry Reid, the late Democratic Senate majority leader. The woman, who goes by the pseudonym “Love Jones,” began sharing her story on the Mistress for Congress podcast. She has also shared screenshots of messages with Horsford dating back to 2018. more here
“Like many people who experience difficulty in their marriages, it’s painful when it ends. I messed up a very good thing with Sonya. We are now working through the final terms of our agreement and have made every effort to do so amicably and in the best interests of our children and their happiness.”
And making her sign an NDA for life is amicable?
“My opponent… is weaponizing this deeply personal moment in a desperate attempt to save his floundering political campaign.”
It reads like he’s talking about himself.
Bullying and intimidation is what democrats do; lots and lots of lies and deceptive speech too.