Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D.N.Y.), whose once promising career appeared to be ruined by a sexting scandal, is making a political comeback and seeking a return to the New York City Council. There is.
Weiner, 60, who resigned from the council in 2011 after admitting to sending explicit photos to women, was elected to the city council for six years in the 1990s, representing Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. I have applied to run as a candidate.
Campaign finance records list Mr. Wiener as a candidate for the Lower Manhattan City Council seat and also list the name of a campaign committee, “Wiener 25,'' formed for Mr. Wiener on Friday.
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Disgraced former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner, whose once promising career appeared to be shattered by a sexting scandal, is seeking a return to politics and a seat on the New York City Council. . (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
In a phone call with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Weiner said he was “still considering” whether to actually campaign. He said he opened the committee late last week so he could participate in a forum held by the Downtown Independent Democrats later this week.
He said on his weekly radio show that he has not yet fully decided to run and is considering his personal moves toward a return to politics.
Last month, Weiner responded to calls from reporters and listeners on his 77WABC radio show and said he is not done with politics and that his neighbors have approached him about returning to the presidency. .
“The way I always unpack these things is, 'What does it mean for me and my neighbor?' And, you know, we stand up for each other… I don’t like people who are victims of bullying,” Weiner said.
Weiner said New York City should always be a “shining laboratory” for Democratic ideals, noting that “Republicans have run this city for years.”
Republican Rudy Giuliani served as mayor from 1994 to 2002. He was succeeded by Michael Bloomberg, a Democrat-turned-Republican independent until 2013.
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Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin married in 2010. (Getty Images)
However, the City Council has historically been dominated by Democrats, and currently has only 6 Republicans to 45 Democrats.
Weiner blamed part of the homelessness and immigration problem on a class-action lawsuit filed in 1979 against then-Gov. Hugh L. Carey and Mayor Ed Koch enacted the Callahan Ordinance, which gave homeless men the right to shelter.
He listed a number of things he would like to see improved about the city, including being able to walk into Duane Reade with his son and not finding most of the store's merchandise locked.
Mr. Weiner was once considered a member of the House of Representatives. He was a protégé of Chuck Schumer and had close ties to his fellow Brooklynites. After Mr. Schumer relinquished his House seat and succeeded in winning the Senate seat from retiring Republican Al D'Amato, Mr. Weiner replaced Mr. Schumer in 1999 for 12 years before sending the lewd photos. I was embarrassed and resigned.
After he resigned, Weiner continued to sext under the pseudonym “Carlos Danger.” The main recipient, Sydney Leathers, then 22, claimed the former MP described him as “an argumentative, always excitable middle-aged man”.
His attempt to return to run for mayor in 2013 was damaged by new revelations of explicit photos Weiner sent under a false name.
Anthony Weiner (right) and Huma Abedin appear in a New York courtroom in September 2017. The couple went before a judge in New York City, asking for privacy in their divorce case. (Jefferson Siegel/Daily News, via AP)
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A few years later, in 2016, he was embroiled in another sexting scandal, during which he married his wife Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's longtime best friend and now engaged to left-wing billionaire George Soros' son Alex Soros. I lived separately. One image Weiner sent showed him lying in bed with his young son.
Later that year, allegations resurfaced, this time that Weiner had sexted a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina and his laptop was seized. Investigators discovered emails related to a classified documents scandal that took place before Clinton's crushing loss to President-elect Donald Trump.
Weiner has since entered rehab for sex addiction and was sentenced to 21 months in prison in a federal sexting case in 2017, leading to an unsuccessful bid for mayor at the time. He was released in 2019 and ordered to register as a sex offender.
