WASHINGTON – The Louisiana lawmaker who got caught on a surveillance video locking lips with his younger district aide just lost one vote: the aide’s husband, who says he’s leaving his wife over the incident.
Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.) apologized Monday after being caught on video making out with Melissa Hixon Peacock, 33, outside his district office for about 30 seconds.
On Tuesday, husband Heath Peacock – a family friend who last year gave McAllister’s campaign $5,200 – denounced the 40-year-old congressman as a fraud.
“He’s had a hand in not only turning my life upside down, but also my son’s,” Peacock told Inside Edition. “He’s not who people think he is. If people really knew him, he wouldn’t be elected. This religious family man – this is completely false. He’s not like that. He’s the most non-religious man I know.”
McAllister stressed his religious values in his campaign, even cutting a campaign ad over a pre-church breakfast with his five kids.
The distressed hubby blamed McAllister for ruining his marriage.
“He can apologize all he wants, until he’s blue in the face. It doesn’t change a thing,” Peacock said.
In a Monday statement, McAllister said he was “very sorry,” adding: “I’m asking for forgiveness from God, my wife, my kids, my staff, and my constituents who elected me to serve.” He has said he’ll seek reelection.
Things have been going downhill fast for McAllister, who just came to Congress last November after a special election.
“He can apologize all he wants, until he’s blue in the face. It doesn’t change a thing.”
Just a few hours after the news broke Monday, McAllister got duped into an extended text conversation with a complete stranger. “Hey bro. How’s your day goin” a man texted the married lawmaker. “Rotten,” he replied. Asked why, the lawmaker responded, “I messed up … Google you will see.”
Asked if he had spoken to his cuckolded pal, McAllister replied, “No, he doesn’t want to talk to me and I understand,” and only then began asking who he was communicating with.
The man later gave the texts to the Gawker news site.
McAllister told the Monroe News-Star he confessed to his wife early this year and it was “absolutely” his first infidelity.
Melissa Peacock, who was McAllister’s district scheduler, is no longer on the Louisiana Republican’s payroll, the paper reported.
In a campaign ad last year, McAllister bragged: “Here at the McAllister house, we have a big family breakfast every Sunday before church,” and pledged to uphold the “values of faith, family, and country,” and “defend our Christian way of life.”