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The big story from the Daily News: Feds probe Fossella trip financing
Vito Fossella, Paragon of "family values", also from he Daily News: Fossella shuns his gay sister - source
Vito Fossella built a career as a staunch "family values" pol, polishing his image in his predominantly Catholic district with a string of anti-gay votes.
He even shuns his gay sister, Victoria Fossella, refusing to go to family events if she and her partner attend, a source close to the family said.
His double life is now exposed with the news he has a 3-year-old love child with a divorced Air Force colonel, and critics are calling him a hypocrite.
"Has the Catholic Church now sanctioned adultery?" asked John Adrian, a 64-year-old gay activist on Staten Island.
"That just makes him that more hypocritical."
As congressman, Fossella voted to prohibit any funding for joint adoptions by gay couples.
He has voted for the Marriage Protection Amendment, a federal prohibition on gay marriage.
He also demanded housing funds be held back from San Francisco unless it repealed its domestic partnership law.
The Staten Island Advance: Will he or won't he, only Vito knows
Republican Rep. Vito Fossella might announce that he's resigning today.
Or he might say that he's running for re-election.
Or that he's not.
We hear that his wife, Mary Pat, might file for divorce.
Or the couple may decide to try and weather the storm brought about by the revelation that Fossella fathered a secret child with Virginia divorcee Laura Fay.
Trying to decide what's in Fossella's heart and head, and getting it into print first, has become a media cottage industry of sorts over the last few days, with this "friend" or that "relative" supposedly having the inside track on what's happening with the congressman and his family.
But the truth is that nobody seems to know what Fossella will do, maybe not even the congressman himself.
"Every day, people are leaning into a different area of speculation," a GOP official said yesterday. "Nobody knows."
Should be a rather interesting day... |
