BREAKING NEWS:
Well, our liberals immediately jumped to his defense and were quite angry with us for being so mean to this poor, innocent man who was only leaving office because he’s dying of cancer.
Well, not quite:
Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) will resign Monday at 5pm, a source close to the embattled incumbent tells Hotline OnCall.
Massa has been pressured by House Dems to step aside amid an ethics controversy that caused him to announce earlier this week he would not run for a second term.
Earlier this week, the House ethics committee confirmed it was looking in to allegations against Massa. Those allegations reportedly include sexual harassment of a member of the Congressman’s staff.
Massa’s decision to retire came as a surprise to both parties. While he said his decision was based on a recurrence of cancer, the ethics committee investigation made Dems push him out the door.
If his fellow Democrats are pushing him out the door then it means that this is a very serious case. A few off-color remarks would not have done this.
If you liberals will just read Caucus of Corruption you’ll understand how these things work – and you wouldn’t have fallen for the cover story.
This Democrat-run government really is starting to be like a Greek tragedy:
First-term Rep. Eric Massa announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, saying his doctors have told him that he can’t continue to “run at 100 miles an hour.”
But several House aides told POLITICO that the House ethics committee has been informed of allegations that the New York Democrat, who is married with two children, made unwanted advances toward a junior male staffer.
A more senior staffer — Ronald Hikel, Massa’s former deputy chief of staff and legislative director — took the complaints to the ethics committee and was interviewed about them twice.
Hikel declined to comment about the situation, but House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) confirmed that the Democratic leadership had been informed of the allegations before the news broke.
It took the GOP more than ten years to get this caught up in hubris – its taken the Democrats less than four.
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