Is Anthony Weiner the total package? He sure seems to think so, judging by communications revealed by Ginger Lee on Wednesday.
Former porn star and current gentleman's club dancer Lee held a press conference with her lawyer, Gloria Allred, in New York Wednesday morning, to reveal some of the racier messages that embattled Congressman Weiner had sent her via email and Twitter. One word kept rudely popping up and thrusting itself into the selections that Allred reeled off — "package" — and it doesn't appear that Weiner was referring to a FedEx delivery.
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"You aren't giving my package due credit," read one of Weiner's communiques.
"Alright, my package and I are not going to beg," another read. "We both see the hazard of going down the path of comparative sexiness."
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Overall, Allred said during the conference, Weiner sent Lee approximately 100 messages. Allred went on to note that, in general, the messages "were not really about sex," and the pair did not exchange photos.
Lee and Allred did, however, confirm last week's report that Weiner had counseled her to be dishonest after news first broke that he might have Tweeted a semi-explicit picture of his genitals in the scandal that has since been dubbed Weinergate.
"He asked me to lie about our communication," Lee said.
Lee hastened to add that she didn't entertain Weiner's bawdier missives. "Any time that he'd take our communications in a sexual direction, I did not reciprocate," Lee said.
"It is time for her to break her silence," Allred said of her client. "She needs to come out of hiding."
Perhaps understandably, Lee is now calling for Weiner — who has asked for a leave of absence in order to seek professional treatment — to step down from Congress altogether.
"I think that Anthony Weiner should resign because he lied to the public and the press for more than a week," Lee opined. "It might never have turned into this if he told the truth, but he kept lying."
In the meantime, Lee has has resumed her career as a "feature dancer." According to TMZ, she'll be performing at Atlanta strip club the Pink Pony, where she'll be collecting three times her normal fee.
The club, TMZ reports, will be selling super-sized hot dogs during her performance, in honor of Weinergate.