Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., called Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., Wednesday night while they were at the White House picnic to inform them he had decided to resign on Thursday, senior Democratic sources tell National Journal.
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Weiner, who represented part of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, was a hero to many liberals and a ubiquitous presence on cable TV, loudly and defiantly defending the values and positions of the political left. For the last two weeks, however he has been dealing with a crisis born out of revelations about his tragic-comic obsession with sexting that drove him to send lewd pictures of himself and engage in sexual banter with women on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
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Weiner finally stepped down after a tortured series of events that had him insisting he either didn’t do things that he did or wouldn’t do something he just did – and eventually requesting and obtaining a two-week leave of absence from the House on Monday to get professional help.
He had steadfastly said that he would not resign.
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