{"id":685398,"date":"2010-03-08T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/08\/massa-says-democrats-pushed-ethics-charges\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T07:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:42:37","slug":"massa-says-democrats-pushed-ethics-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/685398","title":{"rendered":"Massa Says Democrats Pushed Ethics Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/FXjBNtnadXs\/massa_says_democrats_pushed_ethics_charges.html\" >Massa Says Democrats Pushed Ethics Charges             <\/a><br \/>Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) &#8212; who will resign at 5 p.m. today &#8212; said that an ethics investigation &#8220;was triggered by a comment he made to a staffer at a New Year&#8217;s Eve wedding, and intimated that Democrats desperate to pass health care legislation pushed the issue to get Massa, a vocal opponent, out of the way,&#8221; the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/article\/20100307\/NEWS01\/100307007\/Massa-describes-incident-with-aide&amp;referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL\">Rochester Democrat and Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Said Massa: &#8220;Now they&#8217;ve gotten rid of me and it will pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  After dancing and drinking, Massa said a staff member &#8220;made an intonation that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid.&#8221; He responded by saying, &#8220;Well, what I really ought to be doing is frakking you.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/FXjBNtnadXs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massa Says Democrats Pushed Ethics Charges Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) &#8212; who will resign at 5 p.m. today &#8212; said that an ethics investigation &#8220;was triggered by a comment he made to a staffer at a New Year&#8217;s Eve wedding, and intimated that Democrats desperate to pass health care legislation pushed the issue to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SiO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}