{"id":15179,"date":"2025-11-03T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/massie-announces-marriage-to-former-congressional-staffer\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:47:42","slug":"massie-announces-marriage-to-former-congressional-staffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/massie-announces-marriage-to-former-congressional-staffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Massie announces marriage to former congressional staffer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced Monday in a post on X<\/a> that he married former congressional staffer Carolyn Moffa last month.<\/p>\n

Massie, whose wife passed away last year, said he and Moffa met more than a decade ago when she was a staffer for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). The pair were legally married in October and celebrated with friends and family at a ceremony over the weekend, where Paul and Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) were in attendance, according to the post.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Senator Paul\u2019s Ag policy staffer until 2016, Carolyn was a very early proponent and practitioner of Making America Healthy Again,\u201d Massie said in the post. \u201cShe even visited me and my late wife Rhonda on our grass-fed cattle farm several years ago. Carolyn has not previously been married.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican representative \u2014 who is seeking reelection against a Trump-backed challenger<\/a> in 2026 \u2014 said the newlyweds plan to reside on his farm in Kentucky and will travel between their home state and Washington for Massie\u2019s congressional duties. Massie, a champion of the Make America Healthy Again movement, said in the post that he and Moffa served raw milk at the reception and margaritas made with peaches from their farm.<\/p>\n

According to Legistorm, Moffa worked as a staffer<\/a> for Paul from 2011 to 2016, and then as a Maryland state manager for a Philadelphia-area distillery until 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease pray for us as Carolyn steps into the arena with me,\u201d Massie wrote. \u201cWith her support, I look forward to continuing my fight for freedom for the great people of Kentucky.<\/p>\n

The marriage comes more than a year after the lawmaker\u2019s late wife and high school sweetheart, Rhonda Massie, passed away<\/a>. Massie announced her passing on social media in June 2024 without detailing the cause of death.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven,\u201d Massie said in the post last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced Monday in a post on X that he married former congressional staffer Carolyn Moffa last month. Massie, whose wife passed away last year, said he and Moffa met more than a decade ago when she was a staffer for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). The pair were legally married in October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}