Remember Mark Foley? Well Here’s Eric Massa (F) New York

Part of the turning point of Democrats taking the House in 2006 were the revelations that Mark Foley, a Republican, was a raging homo that preyed upon his own volunteers and pages. Now come new allegations that Eric Massa, a freshman Congressman was trying to do the ol’ slippy finger with some of his own staffers. He is married, has kids and has suffered from cancer and has announced he won’t stick around in the House any longer.

From HotAir here:

Several House aides told POLITICO that the House ethics committee has been informed of allegations that the New York Democrat, who is married with two children, made unwanted advances toward a junior male staffer.

A more senior staffer — Ronald Hikel, Massa’s former deputy chief of staff and legislative director — took the complaints to the ethics committee and was interviewed about them twice…

Hoyer’s office released the following statement Wednesday night:
“The week of February 8th, a member of Rep. Massa’s staff brought to the attention of Mr. Hoyer’s staff allegations of misconduct that had been made against Mr. Massa. Mr. Hoyer’s staff immediately informed him of what they had been told.

On the original source of the news here, Massa says he used “salty language.” This means he called a skinny white limp-wristed hipster staffer a faggot, and shocker, the skinny white limp-wristed hipster staffer took offense to the term. Based on the fact that it was something Massa said as opposed to IM chats like Foley enganged in, I’d say this is a non-story, but it does help push a Democrat into retirement from Congress.