I looked at today’s New York Times and saw stories about Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, refusing to step down in the face of protests, and New York Representative Christopher Lee, resigning in disgrace after emailing a shirtless photo of himself to a hot 34-year-old “government employee” (plenty of time for sex when you have to work only 15 hours/week!). It then occurred to me that perhaps this is the way angry citizens will get rid of unwanted politicians: Photoshop a shirtless image of the hated leader and then distribute to folks advertising in the personals section of Craigslist.
As U.S. politicians are mostly older and not very computer-savvy and the people whose future income they are spending are young and often very able digital photo editors, perhaps those who aren’t able to vote will finally have a way to fight back against state and federal legislators who, through unfunded public employee pension commitments or explicit borrowing, are squandering what might have been their future wealth.
The joke is that he was posing as a divorced lobbyist, which he may soon be.
i started working on something just like this after reading your post, but it turns out i was too late! well done
Excellent, Perhaps you can post links to the photo editing software sites you like best.
One must ask, what motivated Christopher Lee, was it Vladimir Putin: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,499835,00.html ? 🙂
Concur with Riskworks.
Represetative emailing shirtless photo of himself on Craigslist is a non-story.
The fact that it was sent to a woman other than his wife, makes it a little more interesting.
The crowning touch was, read this somewhere yesterday, that he was a “family values” candidate in 2008.
That makes immediate resignation almost mandnatory, before the “other women” start coming out of the woodwork.
It might not be that easy. This might work on politicians who have a family-oriented image to project, but on the others, not so much. Just look at Elliot Spitzer. He went a lot farther than sending out pictures of himself, and soon after his fall, he’s already making a political comeback.
We can do without equal opportunity. 30 years ago it was topless tanning during the lunch break in every public park in northen Europe.