BUFFALO, NY ( WKBW ) A Congressman from the Southern Tier who resigned on Monday, is revealing more about the comments that he believes sparked a Congressional ethics investigation. Representative Eric Massa from the 29th Congressional district is also pointing the finger at his own Democratic party and saying they set him up because he's against the health care reform bill.
Congressman Massa used his weekly radio show on WKPQ on Sunday to tell the story of what happened at a New Year's Eve wedding that he attended with his wife. His wife had already gone back to their hotel room and Massa sat at a table with several of his male staffers. "One of them looked at me and as they would do after I don't know 15 gin and tonics and who knows how many bottles of champagne, one of my staff members made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid. I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and said, 'What I really ought to be doing is frakking you.' I tossled the guy's hair and left," said Massa.
Massa says that staffer never said the incident made him uncomfortable but someone else apparently complained launching the investigation.
Massa believes Democratic leadership is behind the investigation in an effort to force him out of office because he's a "no" vote on the health care reform bill. "I will not go quietly into the evening. I will not be ashamed of my actions other than the fact that I used inappropriate verbal v-e-r-b-a-l language and I was set up for this from the very very beginning. If you think that they didn't come after me to somehow get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill then ladies and gentlemen you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.," said Massa on his radio show.
It's now Governor Paterson's duty to call a special election to fill Massa's congressional seat.
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