This is the talk of DC right now. This staff assistant for Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) was keeping a blog detailing her various sexual antics, including (if she is to be believed) getting paid for sex, banging co-workers and married men, yadda-yadda.

Here's a snippet from the Cleveland Plain-Dealer story...

Talk on Hill heated about DeWine staffer's blog' of sexual trysts
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Sabrina Eaton
Plain Dealer Bureau
Washington

The office of straight-laced Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine became the epicenter of salacious Capitol Hill gossip Wednesday, when it surfaced that an entry-level DeWine staffer apparently had been chronicling her steamy sex life on an Internet Web log, or "blog"...

The blog was removed from public view after another Washington blog, known as Wonkette.com (Ana Maria Cox), linked to some of the racier passages from the DeWine employee's online diary...

Cox said she enjoyed the DeWine staffer's writing and regretted getting her into trouble by publicizing the lesser-read blog. In fact, Cox would like to help the DeWine staffer get a literary agent.

"This wouldn't be a problem if she was working for Kennedy," Cox hypothesized.

Here is the link to the Wonkette website which has the full blog. Start from bottom, read up, if you're easily amused or have nothing better to do...

Capitol Hill Sexcapades

For what it's worth, I thought this girl was just another DC tramp until I saw her reference to Madame Bovary. Now I kinda like her.

Oh, and I've actually seen a picture of her, and the coworker she's supposedly banging, but I won't post that.

Yeah -- this really is the talk of the town. I have friends and coworkers trying to track down the identity of X, QV, K et al.

The picture of her from her college yearbook is making the rounds via email. As is a website showing one of her lovers (QV I guess). I think she should have named her anal loving friend "KY".

Roll Call says it reminded us "... of the controversy surrounding the legendary Diana Davis, a former aide to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) who was the star of a salacious Vanity Fair article back in the fall of 2001. The then-22-year-old Davis was forced out of Rogers' office after telling Vanity Fair that she slept with someone because he "knew [Rep.] Tom DeLay (R-Texas.)."

hmmmm staffers for Mike Rogers ® ... Mike DeWine ® ... whaddya think -- maybe it's true?: Republicans do have more fun in the sack!

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My favorite line: "Shit. I'm f**king six guys. EWWW." If only we all had such crosses to bear!

Her fifteen minutes of fame are over.

The Hill's Sex Diarist Reveals All (Well, Some)

I'm sure the little people will be delighted to let her know how much they enjoyed paying her salary for a job she considered a big waste of her time. The unemployed little people especially will have a big laugh about the whole affair.

I believe she will find herself facing felony charges for falsifying federal documents - the timesheets she filled out and signed claiming that she was doing one thing while she was working on her blog instead. If the feds themselves don't go after her, she can expect a citizen to file charges.

And wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall during the interview for her next job? "So, Jessica, why don't you just tell us what you see yourself doing during a typical day here at Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe?" All the time, the HR interviewer will know full well how she spent her time on her last job.

My recommendation: she should practice saying "would you like fries with that?"

Oh, I don't think she'll be run through the ringer. She worked for a REPUBLICAN.

They operate under a completely different legal/justice system. They're never punished the way regular shmos who played around on the government's dime would be. Were DeWine a little less straightlaced, I could see her being promoted.

I just wonder if she's going to attend the Republican National Convention in New York, and will she be meeting up with all the wild and crazy GOPers she was screwing like a pneumatic drill?

Oh, dear. It's not clear this girl was even a Republican - she interned for Joe Lieberman, for petes sake. I'd say most female staffasses are apolitical (see below). And for what it's worth, she probably wouldn't have to go to the GOP convention to meet up with her hookups, she probably has ways of getting in touch with them.

Just a word on staff assistants: They are actually probably a rung below McDs staffers, except they're actually expected to dress halfway nice for work. I'll give everyone the benefit of the doubt and say it's a forty-forty-ten split: About 40% of the hill staffasses are young political junkies who are willing to start at the bottom and work their way up through the office and/or Congressional offices.

40% are young women who think it would be exciting to live in DC and who get their jobs because their parents either contribute heavily to individual pols or have friends/associates who do. These girls are generally apolitical. You know in college when the freshmen girls hit campus and all the guys want to get them in the sack because they know they're gullible and ready to party? Staff assistants are the Hill version of that.

(The other 10% are the political junkie chicks. They tend to be either Phyliss Schlafley-type goody-goodies or radical feminists with that distinctive "I just left college and I know everything and I'm gonna protest it all" air about them. Either way they don't attract the fellows.)

Also: I'd say 99.99999% of the time, a guy working as a staff assistant is a political junkie. They are often young "Apprentice" types who have a remarkably overdeveloped sense of their own importance. These are the ones who lie about their positions at the bars and try to convince people they are anything from Legislative Correspondents (next step up, generally) to Chiefs of Staff, depending on how drunk they are.

A vast majority of the time the girls are just there for fun, though I don't know that they all have as much fun as Miss Cutler. Or at least they don't document their fun online.

There are, of course, exceptions, flukes, etc. I'm just saying, that's all...

My favorite quote from this:

"She seemed blase about having six regular partners, telling us: 'You know, there's seven days a week.'"

Wm65 -- my experience has been the same as yours -- anecdotally I've found that most young female Hill staffers are mostly apolitical. My firm, for example, hired two directly from the Hill in the late 1990s; both had worked for Dems. We had a very well-connected GOPer on staff -- active in W's 2000 campaign (he later went onto the transition team and the WH). These two young "Dems" saw an opportunity, so although they really had no use for Bush, they went to New Hampshire every weekend, then South Carolina, and to the convention in Philadelphia. Why: not politics or ideology -- just the experience (not a bad thing) and the connections. And after all that, their prized possession / souvenier is a picture of each from the convo with The Rock! (Wonk types come back with pics with W, or Condi or Sen. Specter and the like) (luckily I don't know -- and don't wanna know -- if any bouncing from bed to bed was going on).