Several readers may remember the breaking news of December 4, 2009, when Roll Call reported:

Baucus Nominated Girlfriend for U.S. Attorney

Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’ office confirmed late Friday night that the Montana Democrat was carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her to be U.S. attorney in Montana.

I posted that information on this website and then wrote a column about it on December 5, 2009. The Montana newspaper editorial boards had very little to say about Baucus and his ethics problem.

That’s old news now – it’s time to plan a wedding!!!!

Yesterday it was announced that Baucus and Hanes were engaged over Christmas vacation and will be married this summer in Montana. This is going to be the big event in Montana for the summer of 2011!

We did not get many details like how Max popped the question to Melodee. The romantic person in me thinks Max did a day of work at a jewelry store and Melodee came in and looked at rings and he said pick one and popped the question right there. Continue reading →