4 Hours from Discovery to Resignation

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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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Oooops! I Thought that Damn Thing was Off

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It seems that 09/09/09 wasn’t such a lucky day for a California assemblyman. Mike Duvall, known as a darling of the family values folks of Orange County, resigned today because he was blowing and bragging about having sex with 2 women, neither of which were Mrs. Duvall. It seems that the microphone was on, unbeknownst to Duvall.

Duvall was giving graphic descriptions of his sexual encounters with 2 different women, including a spanking session to some other assemblyman while waiting for a legislative session to begin. The incident was eventually linked to a CBS affiliate in the area.

Check out these family values:

WATCH (copyright rules prevent me from embedding) [apparently video was released since last night]

 

Picture of Heidi Barsuglia 

Both of the women Duvall was speaking of were lobbyists so now, in addition to losing his assembly seat and probably his wife, he now faces ethics charges. Why is it always the family values people who get caught with their pants down like this? Why is it never some old known reprobate? The list just gets longer and longer.

That’s it for the smut of the week.