HORSFORD’S CREEP-CASH PROBLEM: Nevada Dem Took $2K From PAC Run by Congressman Now Facing Sex-Misconduct Probe

Rep. Steven Horsford’s campaign accepted $2,000 from a leadership PAC controlled by California Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who is now under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over allegations of sexual misconduct involving a congressional staffer.

Campaign finance records reviewed by The Nevada Globe show Nevadans for Steven Horsford received two $1,000 contributions from Generation Go Leadership PAC, one on Oct. 4, 2022, and another on June 30, 2025. Federal Election Commission records identify Generation Go as Gomez’s sponsored leadership PAC, while campaign finance data lists Horsford among its recipients.

The money takes on an uglier political odor after the House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is reviewing allegations that Gomez “may have engaged in sexual misconduct,” including allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer. The committee stressed that opening an investigation does not itself establish that Gomez violated House rules.

Gomez has maintained that his conduct was consensual and did not violate the law or House ethics rules. He previously acknowledged making “personal mistakes” outside his marriage after reports surfaced concerning an alleged relationship with a congressional aide.

For Horsford, however, the association lands with all the subtlety of a casino chandelier crashing onto a blackjack table.

The Nevada Democrat has his own notorious history involving an extramarital affair with a young political intern. Horsford admitted in 2020 that he had carried on a years-long affair with Gabriela Linder, who was 21 and interning for then-Sen. Harry Reid when she met Horsford in 2009. Horsford was 36 and serving as Nevada Senate majority leader at the time. Linder said the relationship continued intermittently for years, including during Horsford’s later service in Congress.

Horsford acknowledged the affair after Linder began publicly recounting the relationship through a podcast called “Mistress for Congress.” The Washington Free Beacon reported that Horsford apologized for the relationship and described it as a “very poor decision.”

So Washington’s latest Democrat sex scandal now comes with a distinctly Nevada footnote: one congressman facing an Ethics Committee investigation over alleged misconduct with a House staffer previously helped bankroll the campaign of another congressman whose own long-running affair with a former intern became one of the most infamous personal scandals in modern Nevada politics.

Call it networking, Democrat-style.

The episode also arrives as Nevada’s political terrain continues moving away from the automatic Democrat advantage that once allowed the party’s congressional incumbents to treat reelection like an entitlement. Donald Trump carried Nevada in 2024 with 50.59 percent of the vote, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the Silver State since George W. Bush in 2004.

Horsford survived his own scandal and won another term in 2024, but Nevada is no longer the comfortably blue playground Democrats once assumed it was. Every Washington controversy, every questionable political alliance and every embarrassing reminder of the Democrat establishment’s ethical baggage now lands in a state whose voters have already demonstrated a willingness to move right.

And as Gomez answers questions from congressional ethics investigators, Horsford may soon face one of his own: whether his campaign intends to keep the $2,000 it received from Gomez’s political operation.

For a congressman with Horsford’s history, that is one check with some particularly inconvenient strings attached.

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