May 11, 2008 10:37 pm US/Eastern
Sources: Fossella Unlikely To Resign Soon
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Staten Island and Brooklyn Rep. Vito Fossella admitted to a secret affair and a love child. (File)
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He's surrounded by scandal, but Congressman Vito Fossella is apparently ignoring calls to step down. Sources tell CBS 2 News Fossella will not make a decision about his political future anytime soon.
At Fossella's Parish Church Sunday, discussions before and after Mass centered around the scandal, many found painful.
"I really like him," said Donna Cohn. "I feel sorry for his wife. He looked like a decent family man.
"What was he thinking" asked Terri Sassano. "Since it just happened with Spitzer, you'd think he would have…I don't know what I think he would have done. It's ridiculous."
Some call themselves disgusted constituents, but all seem united in their support for Fosella's betrayed wife Mary Pat, who spent Mother's Day without her husband, inside the family's Great Kills home with their three children.
Across town, at the congressman's Parents' home, shades were drawn, flags flew, and banners blew, but there was no sign of the embattled representative there, nor at his Staten Island congressional offices.
Last week Fossella confessed to having a 3-year-old daughter with retired air force officer Laura Fay, who signed Fossella out of the drunk driving lockup the morning after his DWI arrest in Virginia, where she lives with their child.
"Vito Fossella's a good guy. He was found out. He got caught. Most of what we do personally and privately, no one knows about," feels Church of St. Clare Parishioner Ronald Wolshagler.
Some people at a local florist, wondered which mother Fosella might try to placate with a bouquet, and just how a resignation might affect politics here.
At least three Staten Island Republicans are considering throwing their hats in the ring, former congressman Guy Molinari says Fosella is not only inclined to run, he's planning on it come November.
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