CongressionalBadBoys.com | home | Gary Condit Gary Adrian Condit Democrat, California  (1989-2000) For the Honorable Gary Condit, it was a case of bad timing.  We were still in the era when "Washington intern" meant "Monica Lewinsky" and all the baggage and ribald jokes that went with her.  Then came the disappearance (and tragic death) of Chandra Levy, another Washington intern.  And caught in the middle of the media frenzy was Condit.   Condit and 24-year-old Chandra Levy were having an affair (so what else is new in Washington?).  It didn't help when Condit tried to clear the air by having an television interview with Connie Chung.  In that interview, he appeared evasive, callous, like a man with a lot to hide, even though he'd never been charged with any crime.  It didn't help matters when Anne Marie Smith, a flight attendant, stepped forward to say that she and Condit were having an affair and that he tried to get her to sign an affidavit declaring that there never was an affair.  Anne Marie then went to the FBI.  Eventually a civil grand jury in Stanislaus, California, took no action on her complaint, because it was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.  For the media, after Bill and Monica, and O.J., this was about as good as it gets.   For the Honorable Bob Barr, and other Republican attack dogs, it was time to scalp another Democrat for immoral behavior, and for what they thought were actions by Condit to impede the Levy investigation.  (Did Condit obstruct justice when he dumped a watch box into a trash bin near his condominium, just hours before police searched his residence?) Fellow Democrats in Congress were upset with him for stonewalling, and voters back home were not in a charitable mood.  Condit got spanked in the Democratic primary, losing to a non-name opponent. Historical trivia:  Condit was the only member of Congress to vote against the expulsion of BadBoy James Traficant. In January 2006, the children of Gary Condit were sued by the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's civil prosecutor for campaign and lobbying law violations.  It was alleged that Chad M. Condit and Cadee P. Condit unlawfully took more than $250,000 from Defendant Justice, a political action committee intended to examine media coverage of their father.  Donors contributed to assist Condit's political efforts;  personal use of the money is illegal.  The Commission's suit alleged that the Condit children paid themselves $226,000 to make a documentary film about media coverage of their father but did not produce the film. Sources"  "Condit's Children Are Sued Over Donations," Washington Post, Jan. 15, 2006, A10.