Democratic congressman’s wife calls him out for running for re-election despite 10-year affair

Dr. Sonya Douglass, spouse of Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford, publicly criticized her husband Sunday after studying that he could be working for re-election regardless of his decade-long affair.

Horsford – a married man with three youngsters who represents Nevada’s 4th Congressional District – beforehand acknowledged the affair after a former intern to former Senate Majority Chief Harry Reid revealed she is “Love Jones,” the main target of a podcast collection known as “Mistress for Congress.” Douglass said on social media that she was upset along with her husband’s choice to run for re-election regardless of the scandal, and warned each Horsford and the media to depart her and her youngsters alone within the upcoming race.

“I’ve remained silent for practically two years and need it to be clear that I’m not having fun with the ache that my youngsters and I proceed to undergo since [Rep. Steven Horsford] informed me the day after Mom’s Day about his 10-year affair AFTER already chatting with his employees and attorneys,” Douglass stated of her husband. “And that he would select to file for re-election and drive us to endure yet one more season of dwelling by means of the sordid particulars of the [affair] with [his mistress] reasonably than granting us the time and house to heal as a household.”

NEVADA DEMOCRAT HORSFORD ADMITS AFFAIR WITH FORMER REID INTERN KNOWN AS ‘LOVE JONES’

“We didn’t ask to be put in public life and have been merely supporting [Horsford] as a result of that’s what we understood household to be and do,” she added. “We simply need to heal and stay the wonderful lives we’ve been destined to stay, freed from lies, manipulation, and unbridled ambition.”

“It’s true that I had a earlier relationship outdoors of my marriage, over the course of a number of years,” Horsford stated in 2020, in keeping with the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal. “I’m deeply sorry to all of those that have been impacted by this very poor choice, most significantly my spouse and household. Out of concern for my household throughout this difficult time, I ask that our privateness is revered.”

Love Jones’ actual title is Gabriela Linder, and he or she informed the Evaluation-Journal that she and the congressman have been engaged in an off-and-on sexual relationship between 2009 and 2019 – Horsford married his spouse in 2000.

Once they first met, she was 21 and Horsford was the 36-year-old majority chief of the Nevada state Senate. She stated she needs her story to be a warning for different younger ladies about relationships with older males in positions of energy.

“He knew how in love with him I used to be, and he knew what he might do and get away with,” she informed the newspaper. “He is aware of I’d assist him. He by no means informed me to maintain quiet. He didn’t need to. He knew I used to be loyal to a fault.”
 

Linder by no means labored for Horsford, however stated on her podcast that he supplied job referrals and “monetary assist” over time, the newspaper reported.

She added that she had no information of Horsford ever misusing marketing campaign funds or cash from his state Senate or congressional workplaces to pay for something for her.

On April Fools’ Day, Horsford appeared on a YouTube program hosted by Linder’s younger son, however the girl informed the newspaper that Horsford shouldn’t be the boy’s father. Linder and Horsford stopped talking after the YouTube present, although the explanation was unclear, the report stated.

She stated she launched the podcast collection as “an empowering journey” away from the connection and can also be writing a e book about their time collectively. She additionally claims that nobody supplied her cash to provide the podcast, and he or she was not prompted by any of Horsford’s opponents as he seeks re-election.

Linder informed the newspaper she thinks Horsford ought to withdraw from the race for misrepresenting himself to voters as “a household man and man of God.”

Fox Information’s Dom Calicchio contributed to this report.