Why would anyone step down over this? It's only mildly embarrassing at worst.
This is not news. It's frivolous drama.
Politicians and people do stupid things. In this context it's unworthy of discussion. We may as well have the mainstream media talk about pop culture.
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Why should he resign?
He needs to resign immediately.
Why should he resign?
Why would anyone step down over this? It's only mildly embarrassing at worst.
Republicans had to.
Ask Christopher Lee.
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Which republican sent a picture of his underwear-clad dick to a college chick?
Republicans had to.
I am aware of Republicans having to resign after having solicited public sex with strangers and after having sexually harassed underaged staffers. I'm not aware of any Republican having to resign his position after sending semi-nude pictures of himself to another adult.
Now I am. And I think it was perfectly ridiculous in this case, as well.
Rep. Anthony Weiner encouraged a porn star to lie about their on-line relationship and offered her the help of his public relations team, according to a report on Tuesday.
Weiner sent emails to former X-rated performer Ginger Lee – to whom he’d previously acknowledged sending innocuous messages via Twitter – coaching her to deny that they had been communicating, reported TMZ, which obtained the messages and says the two had exchanged “scores of sexual emails over a long period of time.”
“The key is to have a short, thought out statement that tackles the top line questions and then refer people back to it,” Weiner is alleged to have written in a June 1 email. “Have a couple of iterations of: ‘This is silly. Like so many others, I follow Rep. Weiner on Twitter. I don’t know him and have never met him. He briefly followed me and sent me a dm (direct message) saying thank you for the follow. That’s it.’”
The next day, Weiner asked Lee if she needed assistance in crafting a message to put out to the press and public. “Do you need to talk to a professional PR type person to give u advice? I can have someone on my team call. (Yeah, my team is doing great. Ugh).”
It’s not clear, though, if Weiner was referring to having someone on his congressional staff help her – which might violate House rules – or wanted a private sector PR consultant to help Lee handle press inquiries. House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that she has ordered an ethics probe of Weiner and the New York Democrat said he would cooperate.
At his Monday press conference, Weiner said he had not asked Gennette Cordova, the Seattle college student to whom his inadvertent public tweet was directed, to lie. “At no time did I or any member of my staff try to do anything to cover anything up,” he said. “There was no coaching of any sort going on.”
He didn’t answer the same question about Lee, though he did say that his staff did not ask any women to lie for him.
But, according to the emails obtained by TMZ, Weiner did ask Lee to lie, on June 2 offering her a statement to provide to reporters: “I have nothing to do with the situation involving Rep Weiner. I follow his twitter feed. And for a brief time he followed me. Much has been made of the fact that I have posted about my admiration for Rep Weiner and his politics. All I can say about that is that I’m a fan of his. Rep. Weiner sent me one short direct message thanking me for following him. I have never met Rep. Weiner and he has never sent me anything innappopriate (sic) …”
Larry Craig had to resign because he tapped his foot and had a wide stance.
And the fact that he was a Republican Gay rather than a Democrat Gay.
Dems are all for women, Blacks and Gays, unless they are not members of the Democratic party.
I don't believe any. They usually just **** s/h/it.
And the fact that he was a Republican Gay rather than a Democrat Gay.
Dems are all for women, Blacks and Gays, unless they are not members of the Democratic party.
They don't have a problem with gays who aren't flaming hypocrites. There's nothing wrong with being gay when you haven't based your entire political career on oppressing them.
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