Ready himself has made headlines. In 2010 he was caught in a Herald video taunting Frank’s Republican challenger Sean Bielat after a debate, during which Ready called Bielat “dude,” mocked the Marine Corps major’s jokes and told him to “get used to” having his picture taken.
Frank was also the center of a controversy in 2009 when it was reported that the congressman was present when police charged Ready for having pot plants at his home in 2007. Frank said at the time he wouldn’t have recognized a pot plant if he saw it.
Ready is the soon-to-be ex-congressman’s third headline-making romance. Frank, the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, reportedly used his influence to get a six-figure job at Fannie Mae for Herb Moses, his lover of 11 years. In the 1980s Frank survived another scandal when it was revealed that his boyfriend, male prostitute Steve Gobie, was running an escort service out of the congressman’s Capitol Hill apartment.