Rep. Don Sherwood, right, who has represented Pennsylvania’s 10th District since 1998, is a wingnut conservative who voted for the 2004 “Marriage Protection Act” at the same time he was allegedly involved in on-going an extra-marital affair with a woman half his age.

The affair came to light when the girlfriend called the DC police claiming that Sherwood assaulted her:

Police responded to a 911 call on Sept. 15 from Cynthia Ore, 29, of Rockville, Md. She locked herself in a bathroom in Sherwood’s D Street apartment and told operators that Sherwood “choked her for no apparent reason” while giving her a backrub.

Sherwood, 64, told police he was giving Ore a backrub when she “jumped up” and ran to the bathroom.

Police said they saw no visible injuries on Ore’s neck, and Ore later backed off her story when questioned by police.

“Both parties have left out significant information or are not willing to discuss in detail what actually happened,” Washington Metropolitan Police stated in the incident report.

Ore said that she and Sherwood, who is married, have had an ongoing relationship since 1999, when the two met at a Young Republicans meeting. Sherwood has refused to specify the nature of their relationship, calling Ore “an acquaintance.”

As an adulterer who voted for a measure that supposedly protects the sanctity of marriage, Rep. Sherwood is in illustrious company. Then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich helped move the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) through the House of Representatives in 1996 while simultaneously conducting an adulterous affair with an aide. His counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, left his first wife for another woman, whom he gave a do-nothing job on his Senate staff. Additionally on DOMA, Rep. Bob Barr, who drafted the legislation, has been married three times. Rep. Bob Livingstone, who was tapped to take the Speakership from Gingrich, lost the position when it was revealed he had been involved in multiple kink-filled orgies, to which his wife was not invited, while supporting the GOP “values” agenda.

When asked about the political future for Rep. Sherwood – who allegedly physically abused his girlfriend and appears to be a typical hypocritical adulterous GOP sleazebag – Marge Matisko, an activist with the Luzerne County [PA] Republican Party said: “The congressman is a family man. When I think about family values, I think about the Don Sherwoods and Rick Santorums of the world.”

On that last point, Ms. Matisko, we wholeheartedly agree.