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February 10, 2011

GOP Rep. Resigns over Leaked Emails 
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Republican Rep. Christopher Lee of New York has resigned following the
disclosure he attempted to arrange an extramarital affair online. The
news website Gawker obtained emails Lee sent to an unidentified woman
through the website Craigslist. One message included a picture of Lee
posing shirtless. In its exposé of Lee, Gawker writes that his "support
for 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and vote to reject federal abortion funding
suggests a certain comfort with publicly scrutinizing others' sex
lives."



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