4 Hours from Discovery to Resignation

Speaker John Boehner said there would be zero tolerance for scandals on his watch.  Guess he wasn’t kidding.  It only took 4 hours from discovery of a really stupid stunt on the part of  Rep. Chris Lee  (R-NY) until he resigned:

“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.”

 

That’s pretty amazing. Most senatorial and congressional indiscretion takes months, sometimes years, to unearth. Of course, Lee was pretty stupid. He sent a picture of himself shirtless to some woman in an ISO on Craig’s List. Additionally, he lied about his age, his marital status and his job. 

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