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Former Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY) wore a shirt, tie and jacket for his official Congressional portrait. For Craigslist, not so much.
Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY 26) has abruptly resigned from the House of Representatives, hours after it was revealed that the married Congressman sent flirtatious emails to a woman he contacted through Craigslist.
It has been a tremendous honor to serve the people of Western New York. I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and my constituents. I deeply and sincerely apologize to them all. I have made profound mistakes and I promise to work as hard as I can to seek their forgiveness.
The challenges we face in Western New York and across the country are too serious for me to allow this distraction to continue, and so I am announcing that I have resigned my seat in Congress effective immediately.
A spokesman for the anti-choice, anti-gay rights Representative had initially denied the existence of the correspondence, saying, “The Congressman is happily married. The only time he or his wife posted something online was to sell old furniture when they changed the apartment they keep in DC.”
Looks like Lee won’t be needing that apartment anymore, so keep an eye out for those used furniture deals!
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Wow! This guy moves fast. Usually the Rs seem to like to tough things out for a few weeks before resigning. Even Mark Foley didn’t move this fast.
Wonder what is lurking under some other rocks with this guy? (Or could it be some other Rs with stuff lurking?)
I just want to be the first to say
707!
I read an article on HuffPo about the Gawker piece. This is just too rich. The pic of him is hilarious, and he described himself as a ’39 year old, blond haired, blue eyed, divorced lobbyist’. Ha! I freaking love this.
So when is Agent Orange going to resign for his sexual shenanigans with a LOBBYIST???
And yeah: why did Lee fold like a deck chair? Something isn’t passing the smell test; doesn’t want to have that little old rock lifted so the crawly things are seen by others….
lol! good one. what a putz. no surprise.
Maybe he should trademark his name like Palin. Looks like somebody’s already trying to co-opt and besmirch it…
Probably the fact that he has hooked up with women this way. The story will come out over the next week or two, like it did with Tiger Woods.
Woah, wait a second. BONER screwed a lobbyist. That’s different. It’s just a physical expression of their daily work interactions.
“Our priorities will be the people’s priorities.” – John Boehner, Dec. 2010
Guess trolling for chicks on Craigslist is one of America’s priorities.
The very first time he or she doesn’t wash off the insta tan after having sex with him.
One by one, we’ll get the majority back!
That’s a bit better.
And Joe Scarborough (might have) killed an intern…Guess that means Lee is heading for MSNBC. He can call his show “Nightly Chixtalker”.
Jon Walker on Twitter -
JonWalkerDC: Sadly today Congress net just got slightly less sexy.
Do happily married men troll for women on Craigslist?
Hehe. I wonder what email address was used for this? sexlobby6969@HAWTmail.com?
Yes.
There is more to this flirty emails even cyber sex is nothing compared to Senators Vitter and Ensign. I think he was given the chance to resign before more details came out. Whats the latest on the Orange Ones scandal that sounds more like sex for favors after all lobbyists get paid to give Politicians cash.
Having sex with politicians is sex for pay if they got what they lobbied for.
No and they don’t troll for men in airports either…
I know that everyone lies about their profile but 39? He was born in 1964.
So, what’s the replacement protocol and is there a chance for a proggy to get to the seat?
*tryingnottogloat*
*Nboehner2*
*notgloating*
*rlly*
Yeah, there must be something else to this. That GOP rep in Florida who abused campaign funds and stole RNC money is still hanging on but this guy resigns at the first whiff of impropriety? Something ain’t right.
Burn. Sick burn.
He was using Conservative Mathematics.
Do happily married men troll for women on Craigslist?
No unless they are looking for a threesome…with the wife!
Just another conservative who is absolutely clueless about how the internet works and that if you make something public, public it will be. Dumbass.
He soon will be a divorced lobbyist, just like he says in his ad :-)
Rove’s math? We all know how very shitty that math is. Might be Reagan’s math, except for the fact that Obama’s using that right now.
He still won’t be 39…
This is unfortunately a Republican district.
NY-29 was unrepresented in Congress for close to a year
after Eric Massa resigned. In the spirit of bipartisanship, I call on
Andrew Cuomo to make sure that NY-26 is unrepresented for
an equal length of time.
Or blond.
Boy has some guns on him, though!
I’m thinking that maybe that Monday date which he mentions, which he says didn’t turn out as advertised, was possibly a craigslist transsexual?
doh. what about vitter? and ensign? they’re both still around, too. (had they been dems, they would have resumed private life at light speed. why is that?)
That would somehow make him an even bigger hypocrite. I like it.
This is absolutely UNFAIR!!! Whatever happened to IOKIYAR? I DO NOT LIKE IT when my iron clad rules are broken.
I think Boehner saw what he looked like shirtless, got jealous, and dismissed him.
Now that hypothesis makes more sense.
At least it was a woman. I’m waiting for one of them to show up on to catch a predator.
“So when was your lasat date. And how did it go”
“A few weeks ago with a coworker’s cousin..and it didn’t go . I wanted to leave after 10 min…yours?”
http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe
How does he explain this to the wife? No I only tried to commit adultery once I was lying to this girl in order to get some girls want to know your in demand thats why I lied. That does not mean I was in demand…what divorce lawyer? you can’t prove anything!
I’ll resign my job and screw you on child support B!tch!!!
Maybe he was just doing retail GOTV. One vote at a time. Or at least only one at a time that we know about.
“Maybe he was just doing retail GOTV. One vote at a time. Or at least only one at a time that we know about.”
Press the Flesh? Touch the voters? Feel their pain/body parts?
I’m tellin ya, there will be more. That’s why he resigned so quickly. He’s probably been doing this for a while and this was the first time it became public. Tiger Woods, meet Chris Lee!
True dat.
This is absolutely shocking!
Morally upright Republican Congressmen and Senators are usually busted with underage male pages, or when soliciting in airport men’s rooms.
Shocking, I tell you!
Heh. The campaign slogans when he runs in the next election after his minister/priest certifies his come-to-Jesus moment.
This was on a Government email account right so since this is not government business we as tax payers get the emails that are not government related right no matter how dirty?
Interesting that he is a Cantor ally, and Cantor stands to benefit when The Boehn’s scandal goes mainstream and leaves The Enquirer ghetto. Maybe Eric is setting a new zero-tolerance standard for the GOP caucus.
Go ahead and file an FoIA request. We’ll see. Makes sense to me, should be a matter of public record.
Hadn’t thought about that. I genuine attempt to restore some integrity to the House?
All he needs is a fake bow-tie and he’ll look like a Chippendale’s dancer…cough…kinda tight pants he has on…and what is he holding in his right hand?
Is it true the National Enquired is going to do a piece on Boehner? Of course the NYTimes would hold the story in the interests of “national security”. More like in the interests of a corrupt and venal plutocracy.
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Looks like a BlackBerry Tour. Took the picture with it.
Teddy has an interesting angle GOP civil war time pass the popcorn!
The other hand.
Just making a fist to flex his big ripply muscles, I think.
Or an attempt to be the first Jewish Speaker once The Boehn’s scandal leaps outta The Enquirer ghetto our Watchdog Media seem intent on locking it into.
Ah…I’d hit that.
Dave
Creepy old gay guy
Comment of the day. Well done, sir.
Sounds hot. I want to hear more.
LMAOOO!
I’ll second that!!
I was laughing from several comments above, but damned near choked when I read that one!!
He is a dork!
Just one more powerful white man who believes he is entitled to all of the “perks.”