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Anthony Weiner stripper penpal Ginger Lee calls for his resignation
cbs ^ | 6-15-11 | cordes

Posted on 06/15/2011 6:45:14 PM PDT by doug from upland

Anthony Weiner stripper penpal Ginger Lee calls for his resignation

By Nancy Cordes Topics Domestic Issues ,Congress .54 Comments Have Your Say Email Story Send to a Friend66 SharesTell Your FriendsTweet ThisTweet ThisMoreShare It. Del.icio.usFacebookStumbleuponNewsvineYahoo bookmarksMixxDiggRedditGoogle BookmarksTwitterLinkedInRep. Anthony Weiner is running out of allies. Even his stripper penpal is calling for his resignation.

Ginger Lee, a former porn actress who currently works as a "feature dancer" in nightclubs, said today that Weiner tried several times to engage her in sexual communication but that she never took the bait.

Lee held a press conference in New York City, accompanied by her lawyer Gloria Allred, who said Lee had "gone into hiding" after the Weiner scandal broke to avoid having to lie to protect the New York Democrat. The two said Weiner first contacted Lee this March, after she wrote flattering things about him on her blog.

Weiner is under intense pressure to quit after he admitted inappropriate online relationships with several women over the past three years. Many Democratic colleagues are hoping he resigns now that his wife, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has returned from an overseas trip.

Allred estimated that Weiner and Lee exchanged about 100 messages via email and Twitter from March until two weeks ago. She said the few that were sexual in nature were all sent by Weiner.

"I did not 'sext' him...any time he took it in that direction, I changed the subject," Lee said, reading from a prepared statement. The slight, young blond woman said that when she started interacting with Weiner "it was about politics."

According to Allred, Lee admired Weiner's positions on two issues of great importance to her: Planned Parenthood and health care. She said Weiner contacted Lee after she posted flattering descriptions of him on her blog.

Allred said Weiner repeatedly tried to change the direction and tone of their conversation to a more suggestive one.

Among the messages Weiner allegedly sent:

"I have wardrobe demands too. I need to highlight my package."

"Alright, my package and I are not going to beg."

"You aren't giving my package due credit."

Allred said Weiner never sent any racy photos to Lee, and she sent none to him. The two communicated by phone only once: when Weiner gave Lee advice about how to handle the media after he accidentally tweeted a photo of his crotch in gray underwear to tens of thousands of twitter followers.

As one of the roughly 200 people Weiner followed on Twitter, Lee quickly became a target of reporters' questions. "He asked me to lie" when the news first broke, Lee said. "I knew I couldn't lie but I didn't want to be the one who threw him under the bus," she added, so she put out a three sentence statement and refused to answer any questions. Allred noted that Lee has not sold her story and would cooperate with a House ethics investigation if asked.

Lee said she believes Weiner should resign because he lied to the media and the public for a week before admitting the underwear photo was of him.

"If he told the truth, it might not have turned into this," she argued.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allred; averagedncmember; democrat; dncmember; dncmemberethics; dncmemberpride; dncmemberrico; dncrico; pornstar; prouddncmember; typicaldncmember; weiner; weinergate
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To: sjmjax

BWAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!

Bet he’s singing the blues tonight

The Whole Town’s Laughing at Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvdOvUv0mYk&feature=related


41 posted on 06/15/2011 8:44:38 PM PDT by CornBred
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To: doug from upland

It is some kinda record or honor to have the occupant the highest office of the land, and an occupant of the arguably lowest office both call for one’s resignation. Paging the Guinness Book!


42 posted on 06/15/2011 8:47:32 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: YHAOS

News headline should be: “Weiner ruins reputation of pornstar”


43 posted on 06/15/2011 8:47:45 PM PDT by affan76
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To: affan76; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono
Tomorrow's headlines today:

Pornstar Renounces Weiner!


44 posted on 06/15/2011 8:53:56 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Loyal Buckeye; doug from upland
What Clinton did was much worse, but they defended him the whole way. Wonder how they justify booting Weiner.

Easy! Weiner is just one of 435 congressman. Clinton was the president. The DemocRATS aren't going to lose Weiner's district, but if he stays they may lose lots of blue dogs.

45 posted on 06/15/2011 8:56:15 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: affan76
Yeah!

Advice to all pornstars . . . mind the company you keep. Your reputation is at stake.

LOL!

46 posted on 06/15/2011 9:00:04 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: Revolting cat!
How about:

Porn star cut off Weiner


47 posted on 06/15/2011 9:00:35 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: SoldierDad
Congress interruptus?

This ugly time in our history got its start when Weiner stumbled across the
term "sexual congress" in an old depression era issue of "The New Yorker".


48 posted on 06/15/2011 9:30:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster - Sun Tzu)
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To: doug from upland

Hannity spoke tonite of him in women’s underwear...is this right??


49 posted on 06/15/2011 9:42:02 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: doug from upland
""it was about politics."

Yes, they were discussing the Federalist Papers and Social Security reform.


50 posted on 06/15/2011 10:31:08 PM PDT by garjog
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To: doug from upland
Weiner Toast!


51 posted on 06/15/2011 10:39:50 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Brandonmark

as I heard on Miller Time—thank God his last name wasn’t Anus—It wouldn’t be weiners floating all over cyberspace!


52 posted on 06/15/2011 10:46:01 PM PDT by RightLady
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To: doug from upland
"Weiner tried several times to engage her in sexual communication but that she never took the bait."

And thus the attempts by Weiner, the master baiter, to engage Ginger in sexual communications, were impotent.

53 posted on 06/16/2011 3:00:38 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Made for Hollywood exploitation: “ Return of the Nerd: The P**** and the Porn Star.”


54 posted on 06/16/2011 3:47:54 AM PDT by Liz ( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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To: FlyingEagle

ROTFLOL——Weiner-Holder-——that IS funny.


55 posted on 06/16/2011 3:50:06 AM PDT by Liz ( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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To: Liz

Now that we have a former porn star/stripper in the mix, Hollywood just might run with it ;-)


56 posted on 06/16/2011 7:04:16 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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