Not to be out done by the Wieners in Vancouver, Anthony Wiener apparently will resign.
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Weiner to Resign from Congress
Published June 16, 2011
| FoxNews.com
Scandal-scarred Rep. Anthony Weiner will resign from his House office on Thursday, sources tell Fox News, ending his once-promising political career after his sexually-charged online behavior was exposed.
Weiner, who has scheduled a press conference in New York at 2 p.m. ET, spoke with top leaders including Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, sources tell Fox News.
For three weeks now, Weiner has been embroiled in a scandal over lewd pictures and messages that he sent to at least six women on Twitter and Facebook over three years.
On Monday, Weiner took a two-week leave from the House and is reported to be in treatment at an undisclosed location. But he had been facing a revolt from Democratic leaders, who had planned to meet Thursday to consider whether to strip Weiner of his role on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
He is expected to resign ahead of that meeting.
House Speaker John Boehner said he had not yet received a resignation letter early Thursday, but it could be read on the House floor after Weiner does submit it. A resignation would initiate a special election in New York -- a scenario that would favor Democrats.
Weiner was not on Capitol Hill on Thursday, and the doors to his office are now locked.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi refused to speak about Weiner at her weekly news conference on Thursday, saying that she would issue a statement after Weiner held his press conference.
Weiner has told friends he wanted to speak with his pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, before deciding whether to resign. She returned to Washington early Wednesday from a trip to Africa with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The House Ethics Committee on Monday began a preliminary inquiry that could bloom into a full investigation if Weiner ignores calls to resign.
The announcement that he would depart came after the scandal grew even stranger when a former porn actress who exchanged emails and messages with Weiner said Wednesday he asked her to lie about their interactions.
Porn star Ginger Lee said Wednesday that Weiner asked her to lie about their online relationship, and he should resign.
"I think Anthony Weiner should resign because he lied to the public and the press for more than a week," Lee said describing a phone conversation that took place on June 2 in which the two spoke.
"It might never have turned into this if he had told the truth, but he kept lying," Lee said during a news conference in New York with her attorney, Gloria Allred.
Lee, from La Vergne, Tenn., said she and Weiner exchanged about 100 emails between March and June, after Lee posted a supportive statement about the congressman on her blog. In several situations, Lee said Weiner turned the conversation toward sex.
"'I have wardrobe demands too. I need to highlight my package,"' Weiner wrote Lee, in an email read aloud at the news conference by Allred.
Fox News' Jana Winter contributed to this report.
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