Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Resigns Amid Sexting Scandal (Goes to the New York Times)

The party of family values (tm, marca registrada) strikes again. Betcha he’s a good Christian too, just needs to repent or something.

The chairman of Pennsylvania’s Republican Party abruptly resigned Tuesday after a news report that he sent a sexually explicit photograph of himself to a female candidate who ran unsuccessfully for the Philadelphia City Council.

The report, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, said that the chairman, Val DiGiorgio, sent the candidate, Irina Goldstein, a photo of his erect penis on Facebook Messenger after exchanging sexually tinged messages for a few months after she accepted his friend request last October.

Mr. DiGiorgio frequently commented about Ms. Goldstein’s appearance in those messages, which The Inquirer said ended in February when Ms. Goldstein accused Mr. DiGiorgio of sexual harassment.

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Currently he’s disputing the nature of the texts as a “gross mischaracterisation.”