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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow does Mayor Weiner sound?
Sounds f'n awesome. A real America's mayor.
Weiners name was among the candidates voters were asked about in a poll of a five-way mayoral primary. And The New York Post reported that pollsters had asked voters about a run for comptroller, pitting Weiner against the Manhattan Borough president, Scott Stringer.
At breakfast, Weiner quickly put all the speculation to rest: he is eyeing the mayors race. He told me that his political committee spent more than $100,000 on polling and research by Obamas longtime pollster, David Binder (a detail that would be made public and prompt a flurry of news reports in mid-March when a spending report was filed with the citys Campaign Finance Board). The focus of the poll, Binder says, was the question Are voters willing to give him a second chance or not, regardless of what race or what contest? And the answer? There was this sense of Yeah, he made a mistake. Lets give him a second chance. But there are conditions on that, and there are a couple of things were going to want to know: What have you been doing since this incident occurred? Did you learn anything from this mistake? How did you deal with it? They want to know that theyve put it behind them.
By agreeing to be interviewed, Weiner and Abedin would seem to be trying to give voters what they want and gauge public reaction. But its clear that the idea of talking about the scandal and its aftermath appeals to them on a personal level too. We have been in a defensive crouch for so long, Weiner said. We are ready to clear the decks on this thing. Their lives have become too small, too circumscribed, too claustrophobic for a couple accustomed to public life. They havent been to a major event together no White House Correspondents Dinner, no red-carpet events in nearly two years. We didnt want to make other people uncomfortable, Abedin said, but also, we just didnt want to deal with it. I have now gotten used to people asking, over and over again, How is Anthony? Oh, hes good! But how is he doing? Hes doing fine.
Weiner and Abedin have realized, it seems, that the only way out is through. So they have agreed to talk and talk and talk for the first time about what happened and why and what it looks like from the inside when your world comes crashing down because of, as Weiner puts it, one fateful Tweet.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/magazine/anthony-weiner-and-huma-abedins-post-scandal-playbook.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Er, elected.
And I'm pretty sure he'll stand up for New Yorkers. There's certainly a vas deferens between him and Mike Bloomberg.
Janecita
(86 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)mac56
(17,566 posts)"When was your last election?"
"This morning, before bleakfast!"
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I don't live in the City, so my opinion means little. My support would be behind Christine Quinn.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)amount of interviews with her. She seemed okay to me. I guess as the race heats up, we'll see more.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I think she wins in the end. The GOp do not have any major candidates this time.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)The Democratic field is tough. Wiener is ideologically a good candidate and he is a fighter, but he doesn't have a lot of leadership experience and has terrible judgement. I'm not supporting any of the candidates at this time, but Quinn has been doing what she needs to do to get ready, Thompson can put up a fight, and some of the other candidates are interesting. Also, I think Wiener puts us at risk of losing to a republican because of his wiener issues.
A few years ago I'd probably have supported him, but I'm not convinced he is worth it now.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)ellenfl
(8,660 posts)we can do it
(12,184 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)sure, that's the tweet that started it all, but it wasn't singular. It was just the one that snared him.
At a hastily arranged news conference in New York on Monday, Weiner tearfully admitted that he engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone and exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years, essentially the entire length of his relationship with Abedin, but that he had never met any of the women in person. I felt like I couldnt breathe, Abedin says. I felt like I was in an airplane really high in the air, and all of a sudden, the plane is coming apart at the seams, and I am just doing all I can to hang on for dear life. That is what it felt like.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)byeya
(2,842 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)byeya
(2,842 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Miss him.
Don't live in NYC, but I'd vote for him if I did.