First, here is his explanation of what happened regarding the sexual harassment charges Via Roll Call:

In an audio recording of Massa’s weekly radio show on New York station WKPQ Power 105 FM, made available via the Web site of local station 13 WHAM-TV, the New York lawmaker detailed the incident that he says is the center of the ethics inquiry.

“On New Year’s Eve, I went to a staff party. It was actually a wedding for a staff member of mine; there were over 250 people there. I was with my wife. And in fact we had a great time. She got the stomach flu,” he said.

Massa explained that he then danced first with the bride, who was not identified, and then with a bridesmaid. He said multiple cameras recorded the incident.

“I said goodnight to the bridesmaid,” Massa continued. “I sat down at the table where my whole staff was, all of them by the way bachelors.”

“One of them looked at me and as they would do after, I don’t know, 15 gin and tonics, and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne, a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid and his points were clear and his words were far more colorful than that,” Massa said. “And I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and said, ‘Well, what I really ought to be doing is fracking you.’ And then [I] tossled the guy’s hair and left, went to my room, because I knew the party was getting to a point where it wasn’t right for me to be there. Now was that inappropriate of me? Absolutely. Am I guilty? Yes.”

But Massa said that the staff member whom he made the comments to “never said to me that he felt uncomfortable,” and charged that incident was raised by another aide who had witnessed the incident.

Here is Massa’s audio from WKPQ via Breitbart.tv:

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-J-Shutt/546874679 Kevin J. Shutt

    How do we expect people to act at a wedding, where the bar's apparently open? No big deal; seems everybody is trigger happy with trying to cash in on somebody else's mistakes. In the Navy, I was a submariner, we'd call this goofing off with the guys. Not an actionable situation. We continue to witness the wussification of America.

  • http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

    That's exactly what I was thinking. It sounds like a 'guy joke' and nothing more. The only thing that could make it a bit odd is saying it to your subordinate, but it doesn't sound like harassment to me either.

  • Tyler

    Well, it's a good thing we've got SOME Democrats who AREN'T MARXISTS.

    Yeah. Having been in the Army, I agree with what Kevin said. He was just clowning around.

    It's SAD, but people in power have GOT to be CAREFUL with how they act around their subordinates for that exact reason.

    I just hope this guy sticks to his guns and hangs in there as tough as it's gonna be for him at this point to stick with his principles on this.

  • Tyler

    Start listening for possible corruption or smearing of Dan Bourne. He's a Democrat from Oklahoma who ALSO voted AGAINST the bill. He's said on one of our local radio shows that he feels like he's got a huge target on his back due to how he felt about this thing too. He also mentioned that at that Kabuki Summit, NONE of the Democrats who voted against the bill were even invited.

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NWP7DS6HN26IARBD2LXZ2JL7JI RJ

    The fact that people have to hold their tongue because of people waiting to nail them to the wall is what pisses me off about this country. The politcal correctness agenda is like Kevin Says.. The Wussification of America

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NWP7DS6HN26IARBD2LXZ2JL7JI RJ

    It's Dan Boren.

  • Tyler

    Dangit. That makes ME feel stupid. I'm FROM Oklahoma. I should've known that.