John Tandy was a Democrat who represented in the Florida 20th. His favorability rankings are low in his district, and when Nan Lieberman announced she might challenge him in the primary, they tanked as women began to support her.
He began dating Amy Gardner a week after Lieberman's announcement. Toby Ziegler suspected Tandy was using Gardner to win the women's vote. She defended Tandy's feminist credentials to Josh Lyman when he shared Toby's theory, but later, Tandy insisted on Amy joining him for a photo-op with President Bartlet.[1]
Amy visited Josh late at night to argue with him about whether Tandy was using her, and while she conceded he always took photo-ops with her, she claimed he never ran them in his congressional newsletter. She revealed he had proposed to her, but she had refused and ended their relationship.[2]