CCT225H5 Lecture : Congressman Scandal
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7 Oct 2011
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Rep. anthony weiner has decided to resign from congress, as he faced pressure from his political peers and the public. In a press conference on june 16th 2011, weiner announced that he would leave his position in. Congress to allow his party to get back to serving the american people as he is a distracting people from the real issues at hand. Weiner"s resignation has come about after almost three weeks of controversy that started when conservative blogger anthony breitbart claimed that he had sent a lewd photo of himself to a seattle college student over memorial day weekend. At first weiner claimed that he had been hacked, and this claim was backed up by some liberal media personnel like cenk uygar of the young turks, who is also a host on msnbc.