{"id":430348,"date":"2010-03-15T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/massa-to-resign-due-to-ethics-committee-probe-blasts-democratic-leaders\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:00:58","slug":"massa-to-resign-due-to-ethics-committee-probe-blasts-democratic-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/430348","title":{"rendered":"Massa To Resign Due To Ethics Committee Probe, Blasts Democratic Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Capitol+Hill+CCUU_1961_19657275_0_0_2060_300.jpg\" alt=\"Massa to resign due to ethics committee probe, blasts Democratic leaders\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Representative Eric Massa (D-NY) announced last week that he will resign from his post amid an Ethics Committee inquiry into inappropriate remarks that he made to a male staffer during a wedding reception at the end of December. <\/p>\n<p>Massa had previously announced that he would not run for reelection in November due to a recurrence of cancer, but will now leave Washington this week due to the ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the New York representative said over the weekend that the Democratic &quot;forces that be&quot; have pushed him out of the House of Representatives to prevent him from voting against healthcare reform. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Mine is now the deciding vote&#8230;and this administration has said they will stop at nothing to pass this healthcare bill, and now they&#8217;ve gotten rid of me and it will pass,&quot; said Massa, who was one of the 39 Democrats to vote against the House version of the healthcare bill in November. &quot;You connect the dots.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Massa did acknowledge that he made an &quot;inappropriate&quot; remark to a male staffer at a New Years Eve wedding ceremony, but that the employee &quot;never said to me that he felt uncomfortable,&quot; and that the harassment charges were filed by another staffer, according to <i>CBS News<\/i>. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19657275-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19657275\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Eric Massa (D-NY) announced last week that he will resign from his post amid an Ethics Committee inquiry into inappropriate remarks that he made to a male staffer during a wedding reception at the end of December. Massa had previously announced that he would not run for reelection in November due to a recurrence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}