Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., the disgraced Congressman who resigned amid a sexting-type scandal during which he tweeted lewd photographs of himself to a number of women in 2011, may be running for mayor of New York City. Largely silent since he left office, Anthony Weiner has been making motions indicative of someone who wants to run for public office once again.
"It's now or maybe never," Weiner said in a recent interview. His wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton, stuck with Weiner throughout the ordeal. At the time of the Twitter scandal, Anthony Weiner blamed the late investigative journalist Andrew Breitbart for the scandal, allegedly due to Breitbart often uncovered hidden stories damaging to the liberal wing of American politics, which Breitbart did in Weiner's case.
The late Breitbart remarked that he was leaving his lodgings in New York City, when he heard Anthony Weiner would be making a speech in a nearby hotel. Breitbart decided to see what was happening and ventured quietly inside.
As Andrew Breitbart was attempting to stay somewhat invisible, a number of attendees allegedly noticed who was now in their presence, and began motioning to him. He then took the opportunity to take the stage just before Weiner appeared to "watch [him]self be vindicated." Instead of the assembled press waiting to question Weiner, they took a sizeable amount of time quizzing Breitbart, effectively making Weiner's upcoming tearful apology for his Twitter actions that embarrassed him, Abedin and his supporters a non-story.
The "New York Post" reported that Anthony Weiner still has over $4 million in his campaign account and would make winning the New York mayorship equally difficult for the five other candidates to earn a majority in the upcoming primary. Council Speaker Christine Quinn, D-Manhattan, is seen as somewhat of the frontrunner at this time, but there is no word as to how Weiner's candidacy will be received. With six candidates in the primary, including Weiner, there would surely be a runoff.
Current Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who adjusted term limits to three terms and then back to two after earning a third trip to Gracie Mansion, is currently term-limited unless the law is changed again.
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