Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Congressman Chris Lee Resigns
WKBW Eyewitness News ^ | February 10, 2011 | By WKBW News

Posted on 06/06/2011 3:12:28 PM PDT by Will88

"This (Lee's resignation) came after a media frenzy after reports surfaced that he allegedly sent provocative pictures of himself, along with e-mails, to a woman on the internet."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 112th; chrislee; corruptdes; doublestandard; hypocrisy; hypocrisyny26; ny26; perverts; weiner; weinergate
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041 next last
Similar situations, a congressman sent an email and a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on the internet. Haven't looked for all differences from Weiner, but Lee only sent the photo to one woman and Weiner six at last admission.

But the behavior of both was highly inappropriate for a congressman (or any half-mature man): Republican Less resigned immediately (just this past February) and Dim Weiner "accepted responsiblity" and "apologized", but he's NOT resigning. Time to move on, I guess.

1 posted on 06/06/2011 3:12:28 PM PDT by Will88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Will88

And this is where? A little more info would be nice.


2 posted on 06/06/2011 3:14:07 PM PDT by deport
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Will88

Weiner is a democrat. Free ticket to do anything they want and get away with it.


3 posted on 06/06/2011 3:16:19 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Got toast?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: deport

Also NY.


4 posted on 06/06/2011 3:17:07 PM PDT by brytlea (Someone the other day said I'm not a nice person. How did they know?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: deport

New York 26, in the Buffalo area, Jack Kemp’s old seat that was just recently lost to a Dim during a special election. Was a major news story just a couple of weeks ago.


5 posted on 06/06/2011 3:17:29 PM PDT by Will88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Will88

Thanks.


6 posted on 06/06/2011 3:18:19 PM PDT by deport
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: deport

Chris Lee (R) is from New York this happened in Feb of this year.
That is why there was a special election in New York city
last month I beleive. Also the picture Mr. Lee sent was
of himself with his shrit off flexing his muscles-not in his underwear showing an erection.


7 posted on 06/06/2011 3:20:48 PM PDT by funfan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Will88

And the “provocative” pictures of Lee were just shirtless pictures.


8 posted on 06/06/2011 3:21:11 PM PDT by Will88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Will88

Some politicians make it through a sex scandal while others do not.

Clinton, Frank, Vitter and Larry Craig made it without quitting.

Chris Lee, Spitzer and that gay Florida congressman with the interns did quit.

Wiener is in a safe Dem district and will be forced to quit.


9 posted on 06/06/2011 3:22:26 PM PDT by trumandogz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Will88

10 posted on 06/06/2011 3:24:16 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Will88

Lee chose to resign. Maybe he should have hung around a little longer.


11 posted on 06/06/2011 3:25:41 PM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Will88

Lee was just five women short of being able to keep his seat.

That and he was a Republican.


12 posted on 06/06/2011 3:27:17 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: trumandogz
Craig resigned. And I do think Weiner's is one of the worst cases because he spent so much time lying about one incident, and now we later learn that there were six (?) from what he said today. So Weiner was both lying about the one known incident and covering up other incidents until other women started popping up.
13 posted on 06/06/2011 3:28:30 PM PDT by Will88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: rokkitapps
Lee chose to resign. Maybe he should have hung around a little longer.

Maybe so, but I think the House Republicans put major pressure to resign on any Republicans who get involved in this sort of thing. Senator Vitter rode it out, but few Republicans do.

14 posted on 06/06/2011 3:31:03 PM PDT by Will88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Will88

Chris Lee was pushed out of office by House Speaker John Boehner, so he never even had a chance to engage in Tony Dick’s pathetic press-conference whimpering.


15 posted on 06/06/2011 3:33:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Will88

What surprises me is that there are so many straight men in NY. I guess they must be deprived.


16 posted on 06/06/2011 3:34:13 PM PDT by Brilliant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan
Lee was just five women short of being able to keep his seat.

That and he was a Republican

Lol, so his mistake was to harass too few women? That could be considering what several Dims have gotten away with over the years.

17 posted on 06/06/2011 3:35:07 PM PDT by Will88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Will88

yep. The republicans don’t want to look bad, and the democrats don’t care, they just don’t want to lose a vote.


18 posted on 06/06/2011 3:36:20 PM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Will88

Larry Craig DID NOT resign.


19 posted on 06/06/2011 3:36:34 PM PDT by trumandogz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Will88

The message here is to send provocative pictures of someone else—maybe from classical sculpture.


20 posted on 06/06/2011 3:37:11 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson