'Let's Just Say This. He Really Loves to Massage'

No, this isn't another Eric Massa story. But this does involve a Republican so it'll get plenty of play.

Kevin Garn may have violated election laws by not disclosing on federal forms that he paid a woman $150,000 in 2002 — the year he ran for Congress — to keep quiet about hot tubbing together in the nude. Also, the woman now says Garn lied about not having any contact in that tub.

City Weekly reported on Friday that Cheryl Maher told it that Garn — who is now the Utah House minority leader — is lying when he denied any touching or intercourse in that tub when she was just 15 years old and he was 28 and married.

Maher was hesitant to give her own version of events when she spoke to City Weekly but said, "Let's just say this. He really loves to massage." She added that Garn had been her LDS Sunday School teacher years before the incident and was her employer at the time it occurred in 1985. "I was in love with him," she said.

Maher reported that she was excommunicated by the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a few years ago for an extramarital affair. She told City Weekly that she reported the problems she had with Garn to church leaders multiple times but felt his church position remained unaffected.

Meanwhile, Garn may also face problems with the Federal Election Commission for not reporting the hush money he paid — but that depends on exactly when it was paid or promised, the purposes behind it and the source of the money.