Being gay wasn't going to keep him from getting elected. But when the magic words "sixteen-year-old page" showed up? His base would dry up like a puddle in the desert.
The original stories on this sounded pretty innocent--him emailing the page asking when his birthday was and what he wanted for it, asking for a picture, stuff like that. Slightly odd, but nothing that rises to resigning over. There's got to be more to this, probably a LOT more.
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I go to extremes to recognize there can be innocent explanations for things. But especially now that he has resigned, a 52 year old man asking a 16 year old boy for pictures is awfully suspicious.