Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) will resign from his seat in Congress, heeding calls from President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and dozens of other congressional Democrats, sources confirm to POLITICO.
The resignation ends nearly three weeks of tumultuous political controversy since the New York congressman sent a lewd picture of himself over Twitter on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. After spending over a week claiming that the photo was sent by someone who hacked his account, Weiner admitted last Monday that he had sent it himself, and that he had carried on online sexual relationships with at least six women in the last three years.
Weiner is expected to make his resignation official in a statement to the press at 2 p.m. at a senior center in Brooklyn where he announced his first run for the New York City Council in 1993.
Weiner’s wife, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, returned early Wednesday from from a week-long State Department trip to Africa. Weiner had said he would wait until Abedin returned before making a final decision on his plans, and had repeatedly told people his wife was behind him, and wanted him to fight back and was involved in his political comeback.
Weiner can and will try to make a comeback, too.
In my opinion he will file to run and fill his own seat after leaving ”re-hab.”
Someone else will be sitting in it, but he will probably easily win it back.
People there love him, 56% support him there even now.
Breaking news Congressman Anthony Weiner just announced he will run for President and has selected Attorney General Eric Holder as his Vise Presidential running mate.Weiner-Holder 2012,just a joke guys.
Online sexual relationships. I’m trying to figure out what that actually means, in terms of 3 dimensional reality. It all sounds a bit too vague and imaginary to really be a serious offense.
Maybe a shared online sexual fantasy between consenting adults who have never met in the real world constitutes some sort of thought crime, though Weiner’s behavior wasn’t illegal. Maybe it’s virtual immorality? I’m not clear which commandments were broken.
I guess he did bear false witness by lying on television. A sort of Clinton-lite offense, since no oaths were taken that were broken. Still, if that were sufficient to force a politician to resign, there wouldn’t be any politicians left in office.
@Greg:
Good point, Greg.
I think the lying as well as the use of official time and property are his only crimes.
It is sort of like those two fake lesbian bloggers who turned out to really be middle-aged men.
If it weren’t for the fact that they printed the false claim that Americans spit on and pushed their lesbian-fantasy while she was in the USA, their crime would have merely been a funny side story.
But that was an egregious lie.
And they knew it.
Again Greg proves he is ok with whatever his side does.
A little FYI comrade Greg, Congressmen are expected to live up to higher standards. The fact your standard is the breaking of laws (which apparently did happen) , tells us that being a scumbag is a-ok with folks like yourself…provided he’s a leftist scumbag.
The ONLY reasons dems want him gone:
1) Even they think he’s an a-hole
2) When they are facing yet another election blowout, he just made it worse.
3) He is a distraction from the lies they are trying to spread about the economy
I doubt this will remain much longer…..
Amid scandal, US Republican Weiner to step down
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/amid-scandal-us-republican-weiner-to-step-down/160024-2.html
LOL!
Larry Flint offers Weiner a job at 20% more than his House of Representative salary.