Breaking: Rep. Weiner resigns over sexting scandal
"Ex-porn actress says Weiner asked her to lie about e-mails; Lee asserts she didn’t respond to sexual references" by Karen Zraick, Associated Press / June 16, 2011
NEW YORK — A former porn actress who exchanged e-mails and messages over Twitter with Representative Anthony Weiner said yesterday that he asked her to lie about their interactions.
The disclosure came as a growing chorus of lawmakers pressed for Weiner’s resignation as the scandal enters its third week. Weiner has told friends he wanted to speak with his pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, before deciding whether to resign. She returned to Washington early yesterday from a trip to Africa with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Nightclub dancer Ginger Lee is the latest in a series of women who said they received sexually charged messages from the seven-term congressman....
Lee, from La Vergne, Tenn., said she and Weiner exchanged about 100 e-mails between March and June, after Lee posted a supportive statement about the congressman on her blog. He then contacted her on Twitter, Lee said. They mostly discussed politics, but he would often turn the conversation to sex, she said.
“I have wardrobe demands too. I need to highlight my package,’’ Weiner wrote Lee, in an e-mail read aloud at the news conference by Lee’s lawyer, Gloria Allred.
The 46-year-old congressman, who has taken a two-week leave from the House, was in treatment for an undisclosed disorder at an undisclosed location. A spokeswoman declined to comment....
Lee said she did not send sexually suggestive messages to Weiner.
“Anytime that he would take our communications in a sexual direction, I did not reciprocate,’’ she said....
He got rejected by a porn star?
In Washington, the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, reiterated her call for Weiner to quit, saying after the meeting that she wanted to make sure nobody missed her earlier resignation call while members were on a weeklong recess.
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