Congressman Lee is embroiled in a scandal over released photos and emails he sent a woman he met on Craigslist. The incident has prompted him to resign from Congress. Christopher Lee, a New York Republican, was entering his second term in the House. He didn’t wait long to step down once the news broke. It seems that that it was better to just head things off before it became a huge scandal.
'Craigslist congressman’
Craigslist was where the events started that eventually led Christopher Lee to step down from the NY House of Representatives. The Washington Post reports that Gawker.com had photos released onto it. A personal ad was posted by a woman, remaining unnamed, living in MD. Christopher Lee responded to it. The female had a question to ask. It asked, “will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?” In his second term in the House of Representatives, Christopher Lee wrote back to her. He said he as younger than 46, which is his real age, and that he was a lobbyist on Capitol Hill. After he sent her photographs of himself, she realized what was really going on as the two talked back and forth.
Gawker leaks photographs
When Lee sent shirtless photographs of him, his Craigslist correspondent asked if he habitually sent photos of himself topless, and he said that it was “all I had.”. As the two kept e-mailing each other, eventually she asked about his marital status, to which he replied that he was divorced. Lee does not only have a wife. He has a son as well. Vaguely recognizing the photograph, she searched the internet for his name and discovered he was really older than 40, married and a congressman from the 26th District of New York. The news got out quite fast after she sent the e-mails and pictures to Gawker.com.
Gawker forces resignation
The story got out fairly fast after Wed, February 9, Gawker.com published the photos. Lee wrote a letter to John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, notifying him that he was resigning within hrs of the news breaking, in accordance with NPR. Just a little later in the day, the letter was read out loud on the floor by a clerk. Andrew Cuomo, who is the governor of NY, could have to hold an election to replace him.
Information from
Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR2011020906977.html?nav=hcmoduletmv&sid=ST2011020907393
NPR
npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/02/10/133648332/rep-christopher-lee-resigns-from-congress-after-non-sex-scandal
Gawker
gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe
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