Steve Cohen and his daughter, Victoria, at a White House Christmas party.WASHINGTON – First, it was a family friend. Now, it’s his daughter.
Sitting a stone’s throw away from President Barack Obama during the State of the Union, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., tweeted and quickly deleted messages to a young woman named Victoria Brink.
Archived by The Sunlight Foundation, one Cohen tweet called Brink a “beautiful girl” and another said “ilu,” meaning “I love you.” In a previous interaction, the congressman encouraged Brink to “give me a good time” in an upcoming phone call.
All the tweets were sent from the Memphis Democrat’s congressional Twitter account.
Cohen is a 63-year-old bachelor. Brink is a 24-year-old aspiring model, according to an online profile.