On Saturday, former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who is currently running for mayor of New York City, blasted the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy while at Rev. Al Sharpton’s offices in Harlem. He said that stop-and-frisk could be used
The Politicker reports that, at a campaign forum in Brooklyn Thursday night, mayoral candidate and disgraced former-Congressman Anthony Weiner asked a woman in the audience, “Were you raising your hand or flirting with me?” Politicker described the woman as “elderly.”
On Wednesday, an angry Anthony Weiner bristled when voters and Democratic political activists questioned the propriety of his campaign for Mayor of New York City, in light of the notorious Twitter scandal that forced him to resign from Congress in
Late night comics may be reticent to mock the President of the United States, but they can’t help pouncing on disgraced politician Anthony Weiner. USA Today offers a round-up of the best Weiner jokes, all coinciding with the former Congressman’s
This week, disgraced former Congressman and newly-declared New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner took to Twitter again to rip Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s deputy, Howard Wolfson, over the city’s European-style Citibike program:
In what is tantamount to an admission of the abandonment of journalistic impartiality, the New York Times Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan submitted an analysis of the paper’s coverage of the resurrection of Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner’s career. In a navel-gazing column designed to explore the
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have given $1.3 million to Columbia University researchers to study how straight people use the internet to pursue sex. “Researchers have raised significant concerns about the Internet’s potential to facilitate sexual encounters that result
Over the weekend, former Congressman and current New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner hit the stump to push his campaign. During one event, he had an awkward event with a child. An eight-year-old second-grader at PS 182, Jenesis Vaughn, had
MSNBC panel discusses Anthony Weiner bid to be mayor of New York City…
Chuck Schumer, (D-NY), who usually can’t restrain himself from offering his opinions, suddenly had his jaw wired shut on CBS News’ Face The Nation Sunday when he was asked about Anthony Weiner’s run for mayor of New York City. Schumer said, “I’m not commenting
When asked whether he would support Anthony Weiner’s bid for New York City mayor, Senator Schumer said, “I’m not commenting on the mayor’s race or on Anthony Weiner’s race at this point, no.”
On Thursday, media reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had come out against former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s bid for New York City mayor. “Shame on us [if we elect him],” Cuomo supposedly said. On Friday, Cuomo walked back those
UPDATE: Fixed! At the top of Anthony Weiner’s campaign site is a logo that looks as though it includes one of New York City’s iconic bridges and just as iconic cityscape. Which, of course, makes sense. After all, Weiner is
Democrats are obviously not happy with the idea of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner running for mayor of New York City. In an editorial meeting with some local newspapers, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said “shame on us,” if Weiner
The most offensive part of Anthony Weiner’s campaign for mayor isn’t the fact that he’s running. It’s the conceit that New York should become the “middle-class capital of the world”–that the melting pot should be divided into Marxist categories, that the Big
After his public fall from grace, Former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner has gotten back up and entered the race for mayor of New York City. His first campaign advertisement went live late Tuesday. The full release: In the ad, you hear about the
(AP) NEW YORKAnthony Weiner’s run for a renaissance is officially on. The ex-congressman whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in a YouTube video announcement late Tuesday that he’s in the New York City mayoral
Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s longtime confidante and wife of disgraced former Congressman and soon-to-be New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, did not disclose that she consulted for outside groups while still employed by the State Department. According to reports in the New
According to the New York Post, Bill and Hillary Clinton are going to make sure Anthony Weiner’s dreams of becoming mayor stay all wet–they will not support him in his efforts. Sources told the Post that Weiner’s past elicits memories of Bill Clinton’s and
According to Politico, Anthony Weiner has hired one staffer in preparation for his run for mayor of New York City. Two sources said that they couldn’t tell Politico the staffer’s name or what position he/she will assume under the former
After Republican Mark Sanford won his special election in South Carolina’s first Congressional District Tuesday, progressive newspaper Politico used his victory to raise the profile of disgraced former New York Representative Anthony Weiner’s potential mayoral run. According to Politico, the consensus
On Thursday, a glowing profile of former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) made the pages of the New York Times. According to that profile, Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin disclosed that their income was a swollen $496,000 for 2012. But
NEW YORK (WABC) — Political reporter Dave Evans sat down with former Congressman Anthony Weiner to discuss the Twitter scandal and his potential run for mayor of New York City. We haven’t seen him in almost two years ever since
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