Too much monkey business? Evidently Hollywood doesn’t think so.
It’s been 31 years since the lurid tale of former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colorado) and his alleged dalliance with model Donna Rice dominated headlines and knocked the earnest, brainy Colorado Democrat out of the presidential race.
As Paul Bedard of our sister paper Washington Examiner puts it:
Gary Hart had it all. Maybe too much. The presumed 1988 Democratic presidential front-runner was considered a good bet to beat Vice President George H.W. Bush to succeed Ronald Reagan until he faced rumors of affairs complete with a sexy photo from a boat named “Monkey Business” that doomed his campaign race.
As Paul Bedard of our sister paper Washington Examiner puts it:
Gary Hart had it all. Maybe too much. The presumed 1988 Democratic presidential front-runner was considered a good bet to beat Vice President George H.W. Bush to succeed Ronald Reagan until he faced rumors of affairs complete with a sexy photo from a boat named “Monkey Business” that doomed his campaign.
In 1987, then-50-year-old Senator Hart — amid rumors of his womanizing — basically challenged reporters to investigate his private life, which led to the Miami Herald staking out his D.C. townhouse and reporting that the 29-year-old Rice visited him there while Hart’s wife was in Colorado.
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