Parents, stop worrying about your kids and cellphones: It's time to take them away from politicians. Yet another has been revealed as revealing himself in cellphone photos he sent to a woman he says he "never met personally."
Louis Magazzu, a New Jersey Democrat, Tuesday resigned his elected seat as one of seven freeholders for Cumberland County, a day before the photos were posted on what has been described by the New York Daily News as a "Republican activist's" website, MagazzuWatch.com.
Magazzu, 53 and a father of five, issued a lengthy resignation letter, which read in part:
Unfortunately, in my personal life, I did not always demonstrate the wisdom and balance that I expected from myself, and that the people of Cumberland County deserve and have every right to expect.
As a consequence, a woman who I have never met personally, but have corresponded with on the internet for several years, has recently shared some photographs which she requested and that were intended only for her eyes. I did not know that she was working with an avowed political enemy to distribute these pictures. I have retained counsel to determine what laws may have been broken by the unauthorized distribution of those pictures. No government services or equipment were used by me when taking the pictures or transmitting them to the woman in question.
It's bad enough that this happened less than two months after Anthony Weiner, former New York congressman, resigned after admitting he'd sent lewd photos of himself via Twitter, then lied about it.
But, as New York Magazine noted: "Middle-aged men in positions of power just cannot stop photographing themselves in the nude."
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