New York Rep. Chris Lee Resigns Over Craigslist Dating Ad and "Sexy" Photo

[lame54]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/09/new-york-rep-chris-lee-resigns-over-craigslist-dating-ad-and-se/?icid=maing%7Caim%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk2%7C42770

New York Rep. Chris Lee Resigns Over Craigslist Dating Ad and Sexy Photo

What started last month with an anonymous woman's Craigslist dating search for men who don't "look like toads" ended Wednesday with the resignation of two-term Rep. Christopher Lee, R-N.Y., a married father who passed himself off as a divorced lobbyist when he sent her a topless muscle photo of himself.

Gawker.com broke the story about the lying lawmaker under the headline "Married GOP Congressman Sent Sexy Pictures to Craigslist Babe."

Within hours, he had quit his $174,000-a-year job and issued this statement:

"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."

Answering a Washington-area "Women for Men" ad last month, Lee described himself as 39, divorced, a lobbyist and a "fit, fun classy guy." And to prove it, he e-mailed the shirtless photo to the unnamed government worker from Maryland.

[lame54]

1. .

[VWolf]

2. "passed himself off as a divorced lobbyist"

Why do I get the feeling that's what he'll be, very soon?

:rofl:

[H2O Man]

3. He had such potential.

He could have made for a month's worth of jokes, but no, he resigned.

[Kennah]

4. There is no integrity left in our media

That's a sexy photo? Really?