Who is Senator “Tom Dime” and what is he doing in Honduras?

The post-coup situation in Honduras remains in a sort of stalemate, with U.S.-backed negotiations between the de facto government and Manuel Zelaya not getting anywhere, and Zelaya setting up camp in a small Nicaraguan town just across the border from Honduras. And a Republican-led congressional delegation, apparently fully on the coup-leaders’ side, visited this weekend to try to do their own mediation, including Representatives Connie Mack, Brian Bilbray and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Meanwhile, BoRev has been reading the Spanish-language press on Honduras and has noticed a curious inclusion in the delegation, one “Senator Tom Dime”:

The coup-backing El Heraldo has identified the other dimwitted peace-brokers as Senators Brian Bilbray and … somebody named Tom Dime. The first one is actually a Republican Congressman, and the other guy? Who knows! …

Honduran newspapers El Tiempo and La Prensa are also reporting that Micheletti met with the slippery Senator Dime. So are Spanish news agency EFE, Brazil’s Globo, Argentina’s La Nacion and Mexico’s SDP. The Honduran papers are desperate for any semblance of legitimacy, even if provided by fake US Senators. As for the others – guess a lot of editors started their August vacations early.

Is one of these guys Tom Dime?

I have contacted the offices of Bilbray and Mack; Bilbray’s got back to me and they don’t know who the mysterious Mr. Dime is. In most of the stories he’s identified as being from Florida, and most of them don’t mention Mack (who does exist, and is from Florida, and is seen in some of the photos of the delegation, so he was definitely there), making it seem like some of the papers confused Mack and “Dime.”

So, anyone out there know anything about Tom Dime?

UPDATE: I heard back from Mack’s office and they also don’t know anyone named Tom Dime. The delegation was only four members, the spokeswoman said, Bilbray and Mack (and not Bush, as I said above), and two staffers, neither of which was named Tom or Dime.