When Will It Stop? ; Another Politician Disgraced, but Lee Was Too Quick to Quit

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Rep. Chris Lee of Amherst knew better. He warned young people about putting too much personal information on the Internet. Yet, in a politically charged culture that is driven by sensation and magnified by the Web, he went trolling for sex on the Internet. His predictable, though unfortunate, resignation has hurt all of Western New York, which could lose that congressional seat in redistricting.

For anyone who hasn't checked out the latest story about a disgraced politician, Lee, one of the Republican House of Representatives' rising stars, quit on Wednesday after the website Gawker ran a shirtless photo of him taken with a Blackberry and sent to a 34-year-old Maryland woman on Craigslist.

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When Will It Stop? ; Another Politician Disgraced, but Lee Was Too Quick to Quit

None of this would be so scandalous were it merely a narcissistic display of self-confidence by a single man using the Internet to start a romance. Bu...

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