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P for Pervert

On June 6, 2001, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York said that he has engaged in "several inappropriate" electronic relationships with six women over three years, and that he publicly lied about a photo of himself sent over Twitter to a college student in Seattle starting on April 20, 2011.

Mr. Weiner was first elected to Congress in 1998, capturing the seat that had been vacated by his political mentor, Charles E. Schumer, who won a seat in the United States Senate that year. Prior to entering Congress, Mr. Weiner was the youngest person ever elected to the City Council, where he served for eight years.

The announcement came as ABC News prepared to release an interview with Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old single mother from Texas who provided dozens of photos, emails, Facebook messages and cell phone call logs that she says chronicle a sexually-charged electronic relationship with Weiner that rapidly-evolved for more than a month, starting on April 20, 2011. Broussard's story had threatened to expose the secret online life of one of the House Democrats' most popular members, and a man many considered a leading candidate for mayor of New York City. Broussard said her first contact with Weiner occurred on April 20 after she "liked" a YouTube clip of one of Weiner's speeches that had been posted to his Facebook page. She also commented -- "hottttt" -- on the link, which is still publicly visible on Weiner's page and has received hundreds of other comments from Facebook users.

A new poll from Marist College Institute for Public Opinion shows that 56 percent of voters in Weiner’s New York City district don’t think he should resign in the wake of his Twitter scandal. Meanwhile, one-third think he should and another 12 percent are unsure. Nearly three in four voters say they agree with Weiner that he broke no laws during his online relationships and subsequent attempts to hide them. Seventy-three percent say they believe he acted unethically but not illegally. Eleven percent say he behaved illegally, and 9 percent say he did nothing wrong. Here is our interview with Mrs. Narin.

In the end, on June 24, Anthony Weiner's decision was to resign. We have decided to give him the letter P for pervert because he had several inappropriate electronic relationships with six women.