Patrick Leahy wants Weiner to step down from Congress

.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont says he thinks a resignation by New York Congressman Anthony Weiner would be in the best interests of his constituents and the U.S. House.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, says it's Weiner's decision whether to resign, and Congressman Peter Welch says he's awaiting the outcome of a House Ethics Committee investigation. Welch calls Weiner's behavior appalling and self-destructive.

Weiner is under fire after first denying and then confessing that he sent sexually charged photos and had inappropriate contacts with about six women via the social networking site Twitter.

Leahy also says he supports the House Ethics Committee investigation, but says he would welcome a decision by Weiner to resign voluntarily.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/b71bc026bef0433bb43d36e484127d97/VT--Congressman-Twitter-Photo-Vermont/

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on restoring Habeas Corpus and into the torture crimes??

Seems like he stopped everything as soon as Democrats got their majority.

I lost respect for him after that. I have learned a lot about these politicians in the last three years or so, and none of it is good.

IF they cannot be loyal to their own party members, why on earth do we think they would be loyal to those who elect them.

Weiner is going to survive, but it's illuminating to see the disloyalty of Democrats, sad but necessary to be aware of.

I wouldn't want to be depending on them for, say, SS if I were in need because as soon as Republicans tell them to jump, they jump and drop their friends like hot potatoes.

According to today's news, an overwhelming majority of his constituents want him to stay, so he should do what they want.

I wonder how David Vitter's constituents felt about him??

please speak to your colleague David Vitter and get back to us.....:evilfrown:

whomever, DC Madam and two prostitutes came forward in LA, and then, bringing home the possibilities of HIV or STDs to his wife. Talk about an ick factor and low morals.

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Btw, what happened to all those hearings Sen. Leahy was conducting years ago, which seemed to disappear as soon as Dems got their majority?

He was supposed to be working on restoring Habeas Corpus eg, and looking into the torture crimes.

I haven't heard a thing from him on those issues since Nov. 2008!

Weiner is not going anywhere, he has stated it again and his constituents are supporting him and that's all that matters.

HE knows there are war crime supporters in Congress, why doesn't he ask them to setp down.

Thanks for supporting the PATRIOT Act, Pat.

Fraud.

According to a recent poll by Marist and NY1, 56 percent of those interviewed said that Weiner shouldn't resign, while only 33 percent said he should (12 percent said they hadn't made up their minds).

Even now, he doesn't seem much in danger of losing local support, and nowhere is that support more evident than at the Queens Community House, a sprawling network of project buildings and community-service centers based in the Queens neighborhood Kew Gardens.

Weiner has a longstanding and closely intertwined relationship with the organization, which provides services and housing to low-income people. His district office in Kew Gardens shares a building with one of the center's branches, a sleek, tall, not-very-Queens-like office building outside of which a dozen reporters from the local press camped out Thursday, hoping to catch a glimpse of the politician hustling past.

But his main connection to the organization is political. Over the course of his 12 years as a congressman, he's consistently argued and voted in favor of funding non-profit groups that help the poor, and people at the community center seem to value this aspect of his governance that most. Meryl Branch-McTiernan, 28, the organization's communications coordinator, said she thought Weiner had been a powerful voice for "modest- to low-income people trying to make it into the middle class, as he says in his speeches."


Pullano, the director of the teen program and a longtime resident of Weiner's district, said he was disappointed by the media coverage of the scandal, pointing to the fact that the city's community centers face massive budget cuts. "It will affect thousands of families," he said. "It will basically gut the youth program in the center, the after-school program, the leadership program, the evening teen center, the outreach and athletics center, pieces of the high school transitions program and pieces of the summer youth program."

Weiner, he said, had always fought to protect those programs.

"And no one's talking about that,"


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/09/anthony-weiner-scandal-chorus-cheers-district_n_874549.html