Bob Menendez Sex Scandal

According to The Daily Caller, Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez from New Jersey did a bad, bad thing.

This is the scandal Drudge was teasing Wednesday night, setting Twitter atwitter with speculation.

Apparently, the Democrat senator paid for sex while in the Dominican Republic.

Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year.

In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000 acre resort in the Dominican Republic. They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.

The women spoke through a translator in the company of their attorney, Melanio Figueroa. Both asked that their identities remain obscured for fear of reprisals in the Dominican Republic.

When shown a photograph of Sen. Menendez, the women said they recognized him as the man with whom they’d had sexual relations at Casa de Campo this spring. Both said they were brought to the resort with the understanding they would be paid for sex.

Neither knew the identity of the man at the time. Both claimed to recognize him later as Sen. Menendez.

“He called him[self] ‘Bob,’” said one.

One woman said Menendez wooed her with compliments like “beautiful” before they slept together. The other woman recounted, with apparent bitterness, receiving from an intermediary only $100 of the $500 she had been promised.

“He lies,” she said of Menendez. “He says one thing and does another.”

According to the translator’s summary, Menendez “was nice at first, but then later he did not seem to care about her.”

Menendez, who is 58 and divorced, has represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate as a Democrat since being appointed to fill a vacancy in 2005. He is up for re-election on Nov. 6.

The big question: Are these allegations true?

No surprise, "Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright refused to answer any questions on the subject. 'We're not going to respond to a completely false accusation,' she wrote by email."

Will these revelations help challenger Republican state Sen. Joe Kyrillos?

I doubt it.

Democrats don't mind this sort of stuff, if the allegations are true.

If Menendez did hire prostitutes, and paid less than promised, I don't think his supporters will mind. They're Democrats.