UPDATE, March 8, 2010: "Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn." --Eric Massa
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You've heard of Rep. Eric Massa, DEMOCRAT from New York.
He quit amid scandal.
Another Dem bites the dust.
Rep. Eric Massa caved to Democratic Party pressure Friday, announcing in a message awash with self-reproach and shame that he's quitting to avoid a sexual harassment investigation.
Massa, a western New York freshman, also insisted he's stepping down because of cancer, but ethics officials are looking into a male staffer's complaint he was made "uncomfortable" by Massa.
The 24-year Navy vet and Annapolis grad had planned to finish his term and maintained if he committed harassment, it was only inadvertent "salty" language.
"An ethics investigation would tear my family and my staff apart," he said, alternately blaming himself and the "incredibly toxic atmosphere in Washington" for his predicament.
"This ethics issue is my fault and mine alone," and "I own this reality," he wrote on his House Web site.
"During long car rides, in the early hours of the evening, late at night and always in private, I know that my own language failed to meet the standards that I set," he wrote.
Geraldo Rivera, talking to Ann Coulter, referred to the disgraced Massa as the "gay upstate guy."
Video.
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