It was hard getting this post up:
"Anthony Weiner stays in race; top aide quits" Associated Press, July 29, 2013
NEW YORK — Anthony Weiner vowed to stay in the race for New York City mayor Sunday despite the loss of his campaign manager and the drumbeat of critics questioning his fitness for public office.
(Slight chuckle by play-on-words pun)
‘‘We have an amazing staff, but this isn’t about the people working on the campaign. It’s about the people we’re campaigning for,’’ Weiner said after speaking at a Brooklyn church.
Translation: It's about him.
Weiner confirmed that campaign manager Danny Kedem resigned Saturday after reports surfaced that Weiner continued to exchange lewd photos and messages with women despite resigning from Congress in 2011 over the same behavior.
Weiner said he would keep talking about ‘‘ideas for the middle class and people struggling to make it every single day’’ and added, ‘‘We knew this was going to be a tough campaign.’’
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The 31-year-old Kedem was credited with helping Weiner pull into the lead among the crowded field of Democratic primary candidates before the latest revelations about Weiner’s raunchy online exchanges with women.
He was pulling something.
Rival mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, speaker of the New York City Council, said on NBC’s ‘‘Meet the Press’’ that Weiner has shown ‘‘a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth and a real lack of maturity, and responsibility.’’
A former senior aide to President Obama, David Axelrod, accused Weiner of ‘‘wasting time and space.’’ Axelrod, whose former firm works for another candidate, said Americans ‘‘believe in second chances, but not third chances.’’
That's what I'm doing reading a Globe.
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Related: Weiner Wants to Be Mayor
Lusting after it, you might say.
"Anthony Weiner admits to sexting after resigning" by David W. Chen | New York Times, July 24, 2013
NEW YORK — A new scandal involving raunchy online messages has engulfed Anthony Weiner, imperiling an improbable political comeback that had catapulted him to the top of the New York City mayor’s race.
Weiner, who left Congress amid revelations that he had engaged in a pattern of reckless online conduct, acknowledged during a hastily arranged news conference that the behavior had continued even after his resignation.
Weiner stood side by side with his wife, Huma Abedin, as the two spoke in unusual detail of how the scandal has affected their very public marriage....
She is the one I truly feel for -- and they have a child.
Abedin, smiling nervously, took to the podium soon after her husband, and said: “I love him. I have forgiven him. And as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward.”
Weiner added, “This behavior is behind me.”
The allegations were posted on a website called The Dirty, which describes itself as a gossip and satire site and which warns that its “postings may contain erroneous or inaccurate information.”
Not this time. If you want that read a newspaper.
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That's one of 'em, yeah.
"Weiner to keep campaigning for N.Y. mayor amid scandal
NEW YORK — Anthony Weiner pressed on with his bid for mayor on Wednesday despite calls for him to quit because of a sexting scandal, saying the campaign is too important to abandon.
Political rivals and newspaper editorial pages urged the Democrat to quit the New York mayoral race a day after he admitted exchanging raunchy messages and photos online even after the same sort of behavior destroyed his congressional career two years ago.
‘‘I think he should pull out of the race. I think he needs serious psychiatric help,’’ said Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat.
Weiner brushed off such calls.
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"Weiner admits poor behavior continued after resignation
NEW YORK — Anthony D. Weiner had left many voters with the impression that his lewd behavior had ceased after his resignation, but after another episode became public Tuesday on a blog called The Dirty, he acknowledged his habit of sending messages to young women he met online had continued.
That's what I thought.
Weiner said he was still seeking professional help for his online behavior, which he didn’t believe was an addiction.
Weiner’s campaign appeared to be under siege Thursday after another report by the blog revealed his post-resignation relationship with a young woman from Indiana.
The blog posted what it said were uncensored photographs of his penis, and said Weiner had sent the pictures to the woman. The images quickly flew across social media sites.
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Also see:
Weiner says he messaged up to 3 women after resigning
Anthony Weiner admits to more lewd exchanges
Time to take a measurement:
"Weiner pulls into lead in race for mayor of New York City
NEW YORK — New Yorkers appear ready to give former US representative Anthony Weiner a second chance as he pursues the Democratic nomination for mayor. Weiner, whose congressional career was derailed two years ago amid a sexting scandal, has pulled ahead of his Democratic rivals in a Wall Street Journal, NBC New York, and Marist survey. Among those he leads is City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who was ahead of Weiner 24 to 19 percent only last month in another Marist poll.
Quinn is Bloomberg's choice.
Twenty-five percent of registered Democrats said they would vote for Weiner, compared with 20 percent for Quinn, according to the poll released Tuesday night....
The Democratic primary is Sept. 10.
To win the nomination in the heavily Democratic city, a candidate must secure 40 percent of the vote or face a runoff.
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Where Weiner might soon be staying?
"New York mayor hopefuls stay at public housing" Associated Press, July 22, 2013
NEW YORK — Five Democratic candidates for mayor of New York awoke Sunday
as guests in public housing apartments, where they had spent the night
to get a first-hand look at problems.
Toting sleeping bags, pillows and bouquets for their hosts, the
candidates — city public advocate Bill de Blasio, city comptroller John
Liu, City Council speaker Christine Quinn, former comptroller Bill
Thompson, and former US representative Anthony Weiner — arrived Saturday
evening to bunk with different families at Lincoln Houses complex.
Local advocacy groups organized the sleepover to highlight conditions in
developments run by the New York City Housing Authority. Candidates
said they were troubled by what they saw.
‘‘The overall living conditions of the buildings were deplorable,’’ Liu
said Sunday, though he said he had had a comfortable stay in his hosts’
meticulously kept apartment.
Of course it was! They cleaned it up special for you!
Quinn, too, said her hosts had a spotless home — except for the black
mold covering their bathroom. The family, which includes an asthmatic
child, called the housing authority to address the mold but do not have a
sense of when that may happen, she said.
‘‘These folks are paying rent every month, working really, really hard . . . and they cannot get a response,’’ she said .
Authority representatives declined to comment. Organizers said they
hoped it would inform the candidates’ thinking if one of them wins the
mayor’s race this fall.
I'll bet the mayor's mansion is an upgrade.
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Also see: NYC mayoral rivals vow schools change
Related: One Day Wonder: New York Democrat Running as Republican
I was wondering who was running on the other side of the aisle.
"Eliot Spitzer running for comptroller" Associated Press, July 09, 2013
NEW YORK — Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer jumped back into the world of politics Monday with his decision to run for the New York City comptroller’s office, years after he was caught in a prostitution scandal that culminated in one of politics’ steepest falls from power.
It's a good position for him. He will be keeping an eye on Wall Street. That's why he was run out of office in the first place.
His first public campaign appearance turned into a chaotic scrum of scores of journalists outside a Manhattan subway station, with a heckler and some Spitzer supporters trading shouts as the candidate spoke about his record in office.
He declined to talk specifically about the scandal.
‘‘What I’m looking for is a chance to be heard. I want the voters to listen to what I’ve done, look at the record that I developed as attorney general, as an assistant district attorney, as governor, and say, ‘This guy understood the public interest,’ ’’ Spitzer said.
Went after Wall Street.
‘‘People have forgiveness in their hearts. Whether that forgiveness extends to me’’ remains to be seen, he acknowledged before collecting several petition signatures from voters as reporters trailed him through a park and to a taxi.
Returning to public service after more than five years in the political wilderness was difficult for Spitzer, who never hid from the spotlight and even joked about his mistakes on camera and at political events.
His wife, Silda, who had stood looking stunned at Spitzer’s side during his resignation speech, also returned to life in the public eye. She began attending charity fund-raisers months after the scandal.
Spitzer’s timing alone presents a challenge. Candidates for citywide offices like comptroller need 3,750 signatures from registered voters in their party by Thursday.
Spitzer has spoken in the past about the potential for the comptroller’s job to look into corporate misdeeds. Since his resignation, the married father of three has returned to public life as a news commentator.
He said he had discussed his potential run with his wife and daughters before deciding over the weekend.
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