One of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's alleged sexting pals is sometime porn star Ginger Lee, whom he reportedly tried to coach to lie about their relationship.

The episode, revealed by TMZ, highlights the role of public relations in the business of your taxpayer-funded representatives. They take your money to lie to you.

In this case, TMZ wonders aloud if Weiner, famous for sending a photo of his underwear-covered boner to a woman, ran afoul of the law by possibly offering to use taxpayer-funded PR staffers to allegedly help Lee lie.

According to TMZ:

Lee a proposed statement she could give to the press: 'I have nothing to do with the situation involving Rep Weiner. I follow his twitter feed. And for a brief time he followed me. Much has been made of the fact that I have posted about my admiration for Rep Weiner and his politics. All I can say about that is that I'm a fan of his. Rep. Weiner sent me one short direct message thanking me for following him. I have never met Rep. Weiner and he has never sent me anything innappopriate (sic) …'

TMZ is right in suggesting that, if true, this communication could represent the most serious problem for Weiner, who has said he won't resign over the sexting controversy.

While arguably distasteful and perhaps unfaithful, here's really nothing wrong with sending boner picks to private chicks on your own time.

And while right wingers will rejoice in this continual war of sex scandals between the parties, there's a huge fucking difference between a conservative getting arrested for allegedly trying to tap his way into gay sex in an airport bathroom and a right wing blogger like Andrew Breitbart purposefully targeting a Congressman for his private online forays.

Few Democrats have ever said heterosexual sex(ting) is bad, while many Republicans have said homosexuality is wrong. It's hypocrisy that's supposed to fuel the outrage of political sex scandals.

But, in this case, if Weiner made the douchey move of trying to use your tax money to coach a porn star in PR — to lie — well, that's a whole new ballgame.

Lee, by the way, claims Nashville but has certainly spent time in L.A.'s own Porn Valley, glancing at her filmography.

If sexting wasn't the end of Weiner, sexting with a porn star and then coaching her to lie — if true — probably will be. So far, though, Weiner is sticking to his guns.

[And now, a segment we call “Stuff only dudes say to each other at the bar:”

Dude, Ginger Lee? Awesome. (High fives). Way to pick a sexting partner. She's nasty! So nasty.].

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