In early January, 2006, Jim Hartung sent a mass e-mail to members of the Northwest Ohio Lobbying Consortium, telling the group its voice in Washington would continue to be Kathy Teigland, a politically connected lobbyist living in West Toledo.
What Mr. Hartung, president of the port authority who at the time led the consortium as its administrator, didn’t tell the area’s top officials was that he had had an extramartial affair with Ms. Teigland.
Hundreds of e-mails exchanged between the two since mid-2005 reveal a love-hate tryst that mixed the public’s business with a personal relationship. The majority of their communications were professional, but the two spent hours exchanging sometimes cordial, sometimes vicious letters.
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