Smooching Congressman Says He Won’t Resign, Candidly Texts Strangers

On Monday a leaked surveillance video
of Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.) showed the married congressman
kissing one of his staffers, Melissa Peackock (who happened to be
the wife of one of his donors and friends, Heath Peacock).
McAllister, apparently, isn’t keen on living the Christian
principles around which he centered his campaigned. He’s also
surprisingly candid when strangers text him.

CNN talked to the cuckolded Peacock who
said, “It was just a kiss, that was all it was, but it
embarrassed me and my family.” An embarrassment enough that the
couple is “headed for divorce.” He also provided some personal
insight on McAllister. He claims that the congressman “broke out
the religious card and he’s about the most non-religious person I
know…. I know his beliefs. When he ran one of his commercials, he
said ‘I need your prayers,’ and I asked, ‘When did you get
religious?’ He said, ‘When I needed votes.'”

McAllister has asked for the prayerful
forgiveness of his constituents but hasn’t apologized to Heath for
macking on Melissa. If he hadn’t caused the couple enough trouble
yet, Melissa is now out of a job. The lawmaker’s office says she
“voluntarily left congressman’s employ,” though sources like
Talking Points Memo are saying she was fired. 

The scandal isn’t getting McAllister down, though. “Unless there
is an outcry for me not to serve,” he
promised the citizens of Louisiana that he will “continue to
represent the people.”

Instead, McAllister is going to focus on finding the person who
released the tape, which came from his own office’s security
system. To accomplish this, he sent a request to Congress for an

FBI investigation.

His degree of self-awareness seems ever lower in light of
another development. An anonymous individual “claiming that he’d
found McAllister’s cell phone number online, and started texting
with him” had a pretty open conversation about the incident until
McAllister realized he had no idea who he was talking to,
according to Gawker. The site contacted McAllister’s
office which neither confirmed nor denied that the
conversation.